Charlie Lawson thinks one thing has “gone critically unsuitable” with him after being rushed again to hospital.
The 65-year-old actor – who’s greatest recognized for his position as Jim McDonald on ITV’s flagship cleaning soap opera ‘Coronation Avenue’ – took to social media earlier this week to disclose that he had inexplicably fallen over twice and revealed to followers on Thursday (08.05.25) night that he’s struggling to stroll.
Talking in a video posted to X/Twitter, he stated: “Properly good day of us, from a slightly, erm, effectively I am unsure what it is doing outdoors to be sincere with you. It was slightly good after I got here in, however right here I’m once more in big day care in Macclesfield hospital ready to see an osteopath and hopefully getting a switch to Salford Royal to the spinal unit.
“That is the plan, however I used to be speaking to you final time from the identical cubicle and I ended up again at house at half ten at evening so we will wait and see.
“I am fantastic, I simply merely cannot stroll correctly. I am in nice ache, and I am unable to stand on my tiptoes now so that is very comfy [in the bed] but when I get up I simply fall over so there’s one thing critically gone unsuitable. So, I am going to preserve you posted. Cheerio now!”
The cleaning soap legend beforehand advised followers that he had undergone an MRI scan and was ready to listen to again from a spinal surgeon after searching for medical consideration the primary time spherical.
In a video captioned “Ooooh s***!!!”, he stated: “Hello of us, went to physio this morning and she or he despatched me straight to A+E, which I did.
“They examined me. I’ve an MRI scan and I am sitting ready for the outcomes.
“They’ve whisked me again in for extra examinations so it isn’t going awfully effectively in the intervening time.
“Anyway, I am going to preserve you up to date.
“They put a wristband on me and all types of craic.
“I’ve fallen over twice, so one thing going unsuitable down there.”
Charlie – who married his long-time love Debbie Stanley in 2023 – additionally advised one involved fan that he was ready to listen to from the spinal surgeon.
He wrote: “Thanks darling, awaiting the opinion of the spinal surgeon. Xxx (sic)”
Final yr, Charlie admitted he does not ever envisage being invited again to ‘Corrie’ to reprise his position as Jim, who he final portrayed in 2018.
He advised the Each day Mirror newspaper on the time: “It would not shock me if he dies in Australia. I feel it could be a horrible waste of a personality, and I’d get up and have a pint and salute to him. However I would not be broken-hearted as a result of I have been again seven or eight occasions, for Christ’s sake, since 2001 that is fairly rattling good because it’s 2024.
“Now I have never been again since 2018 however the entire world has modified since then right into a loopy woke form of… it is all modified. I am not fairly certain how Jim would react to 24 genders in Weatherfield. I think he would most likely – if the writers had the braveness – I think he would most likely say that that was nonsense.”
Jim was famously married to former Rovers Return landlady Liz McDonald (Beverley Callard), however their relationship was examined by alcoholism and infidelity.
They divorced in 1997 after Liz had been untrue to him, they usually remarried in 2000, however Jim was later imprisoned for the manslaughter of drug vendor Jez Quigley (Lee Boardman), who had beforehand crushed his son Steve (Simon Gregson) up over a job.
Liz divorced Jim for a second time throughout his jail sentence, and in 2011 he tried to win her again by robbing a financial institution.
However he was put behind bars once more.
In 2018, Jim returned to the collection with a younger lady referred to as Hannah Gilmore (Hannah Ellis Ryan), whom he falsely claimed was his and Liz’s long-lost daughter Katie.
Nonetheless, Hannah was truly Jim’s girlfriend, and the pair have been later arrested for a money-making rip-off when the reality emerged.
