Alan Halsall has spent more of his life on-screen than he has off it. This year the actor is celebrating 24 years on the cobbles where he is best known for playing Tyrone Dobbs, the role he bagged on Coronation Street when he was 15-years-old.
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Jack James Ryan couldn't look further away from the Coronation Street cobbles as he headed for a mini sunshine break. The actor is best known for playing reformed bad boy Jacob Hay on the ITV soap.
Jacob first appeared in Weatherfield in March 2020 as part of a gang who were running drugs under the cover of food deliveries which saw him befriend Simon Barlow. After his three-month stint on the soap, Jack went down to London to work at the National Theatre and also filmed a short for BBC called Peck Eds.
But the Manchester actor was thrilled to get the call about a return to the famous cobbles and Corrie fans have since seen him strike up a relationship with Simon's cousin Amy Barlow, which didn't go down well with her parents Tracy and Steve or Simon and his family.
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And Simon has been trying to make things difficult, goading Jacob into hitting him and last week anonymously calling the police as Jacob sold alcopops he had legitimately brought from Evelyn Plummer at the corner shop.
Now, Jack James has treated that there are big things to come in the soap for him and his character as he shared a snap from his trip to Alcúdia. Taking to Instagram, the soap star shared a picture of him smiling for the camera in his shades and summer clothes - a mint green t-shit and stone-coloured shorts which he paired with a pair of brown sandals.
"Toes out 4 the lads," he captioned the post to his thousands of followers and was soon getting comments from his Corrie co-stars. Simon actor Alex Bain wrote: "D amnnnn styling on them mate!" with a fire emoji.
But when one fan asked: "When are we getting more Jacob
Alan Halsall has spent more of his life on-screen than he has off it. This year the actor is celebrating 24 years on the cobbles where he is best known for playing Tyrone Dobbs, the role he bagged on Coronation Street when he was 15-years-old.
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The Corrie cast let their hair down away from all the high drama on the famous cobbles as they partied together at Manchester's Science and Industry Museum for a belated Christmas party. Soap favourites have been sharing an insight into their big night out as they enjoyed the first Coronation Street party since 2019.
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