{"id":410013,"date":"2026-02-05T21:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410013\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T21:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:52:10","slug":"coronation-street-star-keith-duffy-casts-doubt-on-ciaran-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410013\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Street star Keith Duffy casts doubt on Ciaran return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keith Duffy<\/a> has cheekily addressed whether he could return to Coronation Street<\/a> as Ciaran McCarthy after last appearing on the cobbles in 2011<\/a>. The Boyzone star<\/a> joined the ITV soap in 2002, and went on to strike up a relationship with Sunita Alahan.<\/p>\n

Keith was involved in some huge storylines during his tenure, including Ciaran’s gambling addiction, his failed restaurant opening, and his relationship with Michelle Connor.<\/p>\n

What was meant to be a short stint on the show for the popstar turned into hundreds of episodes, but it seems unlikely that we will see his return to the cobbles any time soon.<\/p>\n

During an interview on This Morning, Keith said: “I met Sue Cleaver outside of a nightclub. Sue actually gave me my first digs in Manchester when I first moved over in 2002. I was talking to her in the Woodchester pub. <\/p>\n

“She said, ‘Where are you going to stay?’ and I said, ‘I\u2019m not quite sure!’ She went, ‘I have an apartment in Didsbury, would you like to stay there for a while?’. It was mad bumping into her again.”<\/p>\n

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“I was there [Corrie] for ten years on and off, 2002 to 2011… He could come back,” Keith continued, before mentioning Boyzlife bandmate Brian McFadden.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t think [Brian] would give me enough time off,” he joked. “Boyzone were supposed to come back and do a 40-date tour. Brian wouldn\u2019t have it – we had to do two nights instead. He wouldn\u2019t let me go. We have contracts signed with each other.”<\/p>\n

Brian himself then joked: “I have a prenup on him, just in case he decides to run off.”<\/p>\n

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Ciaran is not the only acting role Keith has had, having also made appearances in comedy series Mrs Brown’s Boys and its 2014 spin-off movie.<\/p>\n

Keith has had roles in the likes of The Clinic, Fair City, Love\/Hate, and Death in Paradise as well.<\/p>\n

Coronation Street airs on weeknights at 8.30pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

For exclusive soap star interviews, gossip, spoilers and theories every week, don’t miss the Soap Scoop podcast<\/a> from Inside Soap magazine. The latest episode<\/a> delves into next week\u2019s soap spoilers, from Robert\u2019s feud with Joe in Emmerdale, to Carl\u2019s dangerous new plan in Coronation Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keith Duffy has cheekily addressed whether he could return to Coronation Street as Ciaran McCarthy after last appearing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[147950,379,152303,381,96,1156,152302,147949,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-410013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-collection-latest-news","9":"tag-content-type-news","10":"tag-contentid-6bae567e-6792-45ca-9f8d-63614f79565a","11":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-locale-gb","14":"tag-shorttitle-corrie-star-keith-duffy-addresses-ciaran-return","15":"tag-subsection-coronation-street","16":"tag-tv","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410013","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=410013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}