{"id":37593,"date":"2025-09-25T19:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/37593\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T19:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:12:17","slug":"coronation-street-secretly-killed-off-fan-favourite-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/37593\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Street secretly “killed off” fan favourite character"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack P Shepherd<\/a> has revealed how a decision by the Coronation Street<\/a> actor prevented his fan-favourite character David Platt<\/a> from being killed off in the soap.<\/p>\n

From 1990 to 2000, Gail Platt’s son David was portrayed by Thomas Ormson<\/a> in the ITV show until Jack took over at the turn of the millennium.<\/p>\n

He has since gone on to be involved in some of Corrie’s biggest storylines, from his destructive, criminal behaviour<\/a> as a teenager, pushing Gail down the stairs in their home, his emotional rape storyline with Josh Tucker<\/a>, and struggles following Kylie Platt’s death<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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But during the live show An Audience with Coronation Street at Salford’s Lowry Theatre, Jack revealed that David was meant to be “killed off” as a teenager. <\/p>\n

“They were going to kill me off because I\u2019d done bad things, and it\u2019s like anything, each character goes through bad scenarios and if they keep doing bad things, they have to get rid of them, don\u2019t they?” he told host Sharon Marshall (via Manchester Evening News<\/a>).<\/p>\n

“I found out at a writer\u2019s meeting that they\u2019d just killed me off. They\u2019d just decided to.”<\/p>\n

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However, during an emotionally-charged scene he shared with Gail actor Helen Worth, Jack managed to turn his character’s fate around.<\/p>\n

He explained: “What changed their minds was that I did a scene where I blamed Gail about Richard Hillman, and I think the scene was typically written where David would lash out at his mum and storm upstairs, slam the door, like a usual teenage soap scene.<\/p>\n

“I played it a little differently, and I was just very matter-of-fact and was a bit more sincere with what he actually believed and thought.<\/p>\n

“And that\u2019s when they went, ‘Oh, maybe he\u2019s alright, and maybe there is a way back for his character. Maybe this lad\u2019s quite good and we\u2019ll try and keep hold of him’.”
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Related: Coronation Street reveals David Platt’s ‘final hours’ in new spoiler clips<\/a><\/p>\n

It comes after the actor addressed his response to not winning an award<\/a> at this year’s National Television Awards, with viewers claiming the actor was annoyed live on air.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his podcast On the Sofa with Colson, Jack and Ben<\/a>, Jack said he knew he had not won the Best Serial Drama Performance gong before it was announced, which went to EastEnders’ Steve McFadden.<\/p>\n

“Everyone who\u2019s nominated, you have cameras [facing you]. And then they went, ‘And the winner is\u2026’,” he said.<\/p>\n

“All the cameras turned away from me and went to Phil Mitchell. So it was like, there\u2019s obviously not a camera on me, just to give you a clue that I\u2019ve definitely not won this.” <\/p>\n

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Related: Coronation Street reveals new direction for David in Harvey storyline<\/a><\/p>\n

On his ‘loser’s face’, Jack added: “Usually, I do the ‘massively pissed off’ look because it makes me laugh. But this year, because I had no camera on me, I didn\u2019t do anything, but they had a little sniper camera.<\/p>\n

“So I was in shot and my reaction was, ‘I\u2019m just watching the NTAs’. I genuinely wasn\u2019t pissed off.”
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Coronation Street airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more Coronation Street spoilers on our dedicated homepage<\/a><\/p>\n

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