Colson Smith will not be returning to ‘Coronation Road’ sooner or later as a ghost.
The 26-year-old actor left the ITV cleaning soap on Wednesday (21.05.25) after 14 years when his alter ego, PC Craig Tinker, was killed off after dying from the accidents he sustained after being brutally attacked by Mick Michaelis (Joe Layton) and has revealed that he needed his departure from Weatherfield to be ultimate.
Talking to RadioTimes.com and different media, Colson mentioned: “I did say I will not be coming again as a ghost. I used to be like: ‘The day I go away, would be the day that I go away!'”
Colson came upon final yr that he was being written out of the present and he felt that his exit storyline was the right means for his policeman character to depart as he would die a “hero’s dying”.
He mentioned: “I might already braced myself for what was about to occur. I might been in that constructing since I used to be 12 years outdated, so I do know precisely the way it works. So I knew that my time was up and I knew that Craig had backed himself right into a nook that was gonna be actually onerous to get out of.
“So I totally anticipated the chat [with producer Kate Brooks] to go that means. Within the dialog with Kate, there’d been about 20 minutes of Kate type of, speaking to me, however we hadn’t touched on when, or how, or who or what.
“So I type of stopped Kate and mentioned, ‘Look, I’ve two questions: one is when, and two is do I get killed?’ And she or he type of stopped and stumbled a little bit bit; and I mentioned, ‘If it makes it simpler for you, the best reply for me is Sure.’
“For me to go, I’d wish to die, I’d need the door to be shut so then I can type of know in my head that Corrie has been this, Corrie has accomplished that and it’s now accomplished, and Craig’s journey is over.
“So in a very bizarre means, it was the best factor for me to be killed. I did not need that, ‘We’d have you ever again’, figuring out that it will be not possible and figuring out that it will really feel a bit like unfinished enterprise and an unfinished job.
“I believe Craig dying, and Craig dying within the line of obligation as a copper, that type of hero’s dying was by far probably the most excellent story for the exit.”