{"id":231011,"date":"2025-10-22T04:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231011\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T04:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:19:11","slug":"coronation-street-recasts-character-for-fifth-time-and-new-star-is-familiar-face-tv-radio-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231011\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Street recasts character for fifth time\u00a0\u2013 and new star is familiar face | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Coronation Street<\/a> youngster has been recast for the fifth time \u2013 and fans might recognise the latest actor to take on the role of Harry Platt, Sarah\u2019s son. After Lucy Fallon returned<\/a> to ITV<\/a> Soapland as Bethany Platt, her little brother Harry is also back on-screen \u2013 but the last actor to play him, Carter-J Murphy, was nowhere to be seen.<\/p>\n

Harry has actually been played by seven actors so far \u2013 first as a baby, when he was played by Woody Illsley and twins Pixie and Presley Sellars. The role was taken over by Freddie and Isaac Rhodes from 2017 until 2024, when Carter-J stepped in to play the youngster.<\/p>\n

Now, though, he has been replaced by Joshua Leavy, who made his first appearance on Monday (October 20).<\/p>\n

Joshua has a link to his on-screen mum Sarah<\/a>, played by Tina O\u2019Brien \u2013 as they attended the same acting school. A source told The Sun: \u201cHe\u2019s already been filming on set for a few months. He went to Tina O\u2019Brien\u2019s acting school so he already knows her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joshua has appeared on Corrie<\/a> before, playing Finn Chambers \u2013 the son of Sarah\u2019s friend Lydia \u2013 in 2021. He has also starred in rival Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks.<\/p>\n

He isn\u2019t the first character to be recast in 2025, as Lily Platt \u2013 daughter of David and Shona \u2013 was also replaced after nine years in July.<\/p>\n

Brooke Malonie had played the role since 2016, but now Lily is played by Grace Ashcroft-Gardner as she takes on more hard-hitting storylines.<\/p>\n

Footballer James Bailey was also recast earlier this year. Originally played by Nathan Graham, Jason Callender has now taken on the role for James\u2019 return to the cobbles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another Coronation Street youngster has been recast for the fifth time \u2013 and fans might recognise the latest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,2834,32301,109887,109891,109890,109893,109888,75,109892,2835,109886,109889,348],"class_list":["post-231011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-coronation-street","tag-coronation-street-spoilers","tag-corrie","tag-corrie-harry","tag-corrie-recast","tag-corrie-sarah","tag-corrie-spoilers","tag-entertainment","tag-harry-platt","tag-itv","tag-sarah-platt","tag-soap-spoilers","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}