Alan Halsall breaks his silence on new Coronation Street contract after signing 12-month deal
CORONATION Street legend Alan Halsall says he is delighted at signing a new deal to keep him on the cobbles.
The Tyrone Dobbs actor, 42, says he will be celebrating the contract and his stint in I’m A Celeb by knocking back pints of Guinness.
Alan’s new deal, first revealed by The Sun, will take him through to the end of 2025, as revealed by The Sun last week.
November 30 marked 27 years since his debut on the ITV soap.
Alan said: I’ve spoken a lot in camp of how humbling it is to be a very small part of Coronation Street.
“To know that I’ve got a contract that will take me through that is incredibly humbling and proud for me and also proud for my family, being from Salford, growing up Coronation Street fans.
“I’m thrilled to bits. That’s the job I love, so long may it continue.
“I’ll maybe have a couple of pints of Guinness to toast it.”
Alan may even try lining up a gig on the show for his I’m A Celeb pal Coleen Rooney – after she impressed him with her acting skills.
In one hilarious moment in last Monday’s show, the pair bagged ten stars in a grim Bushtucker Trial – but fibbed to their campmates and told them they had only won two.
They kept up the charade all day – right up until they were about to get their food bag for dinner.
Prankster Alan came up with the idea.
He said: “I mentioned it to Coleen and I was a bit unsure if she would want to do that. And she was like, let’s do it.
“She walked in and she was like, ‘We only got two’. And I was like, ‘Hey, I’m the actor here!’
“We managed to drag it out. Coleen was fantastic, a proper leading actress.
“I believed Coleen – and I was in on the joke.
“She was absolutely fantastic as an actress. I said, ‘I think she could be a barmaid of the Rovers Return.’ She was absolutely brilliant.”
In an exclusive chat with The Sun on Sunday in Australia following his eviction, Alan also revealed he stopped the camp from being flooded by digging out a trench to stop water flowing in.
The jungle has been battered by relentless storms in what has been the wettest I’m A Celeb in the ITV1 show’s 22-year history.
Last weekend, the weather got so bad that bosses drew up emergency plans to evacuate the stars if the weather worsened.
They were preparing to move them into the Bush Telegraph for safety after parts of the set were ripped up.
Alan said: “As the water was cascading down – and I mean it really was like a river – it was going to flood the camp and flood the fire.
“So I just kind of dug out a trench to re-divert the water so it didn’t put out the fire.
“And everyone was like, where did you think that? And I was like, I don’t know, I just thought of it.
“I managed to re-divert the water so it went off into the creek and didn’t put out our fire.”