{"id":314841,"date":"2025-12-14T02:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T02:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/314841\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T02:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T02:02:13","slug":"coronation-street-fans-rush-to-support-grief-stricken-star-after-hardest-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/314841\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Street fans rush to support grief-stricken star after ‘hardest week’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Coronation Street star Adam Rickitt has been praised by wife Katy after performing at an event following the death of their beloved dog Daphne<\/p>\n

Joe Crutchley Screen Time reporter<\/p>\n

14:53, 13 Dec 2025Updated 14:57, 13 Dec 2025<\/p>\n

\"AdamCoronation Street fans rush to support grief-stricken star after ‘hardest week of their life(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

A Coronation Street actor has received an outpouring of support following the ‘toughest week of their life’.<\/p>\n

Adam Rickitt, who portrayed Nick Tilsley on the popular ITV<\/a> soap, first appeared in 1997 and quickly became a hit with viewers.<\/p>\n

However, Adam left the programme in 1999 to embark on a pop career, but returned to the cobbles for another two-year run from 2002 to 2004. Since leaving, Adam has remained active, featuring in shows such as Hollyoaks<\/a> and BBC’s Doctors.<\/p>\n

Outside of his acting career, Adam is married to Good Morning Britain presenter Katy Rickitt. The couple first crossed paths when Katy interviewed Adam on GMB in 2011.<\/p>\n

\"NoAdam played Nick on the soap(Image: Granada Television)<\/p>\n

They exchanged vows in a winter wonderland-themed wedding in December 2014. However, this week, they shared the devastating news that their cherished dog Daphne had died, reports the Mirror<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Saturday (December 12), Katy provided an update on their situation, commending Adam for dedicating himself to his professional obligations despite the recent family loss.<\/p>\n

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She posted a video of Adam performing at an event on her Instagram account. In the caption, she wrote: “Wow I literally cannot believe the strength of this utter superhuman… my beautiful husband @adamrickitt.<\/p>\n

“As you know this week has been one of the toughest of our lives… but last night, in spite of it all he went and put on a SHOW! The timing might have transpired to be awful .. but it was his time to shine and we both know you can’t change that.<\/p>\n

“2026 will be the year he gets to bring some of his music and this time really enjoy it and last night was just the first teaser.”<\/p>\n

\"KatyTheir beloved dog died recently(Image: Instagram )<\/p>\n

The Good Morning Britain presenter also commented: “Little Daphne would have been proud… if she’d have been a human baby she’d have defo been a little bopper! We are all proud and love you bean xx.”<\/p>\n

Supporters were quick to express their solidarity in the comments section. One fan wrote: “So much love for you both. A strong ass couple with hearts of gold.” Another said: “Lots of love to you both.” A third added: “I’m sending you all my love”.<\/p>\n

Later, Katy shared a touching post on her Instagram Story, featuring a photo of Adam and Daphne in the bath. She captioned it: “She worshipped her dad. And he’s barely had a chance to grieve this week. Thank you our hero.”<\/p>\n

Coronation Street airs Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8pm on ITV1 and ITVX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Coronation Street star Adam Rickitt has been praised by wife Katy after performing at an event following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2525,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-314841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-coronation-street","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-tv","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}