Jack P Shepherd hopes to remain on ‘Coronation Avenue’ for no less than one other 25 years – if he would not get cancelled on ‘Superstar Huge Brother’.
The 37-year-old star – who’s greatest identified for his long-standing function as David Platt on the ITV cleaning soap – entered the ‘CBB’ home on Monday (07.04.25) and in a brand new interview he has mentioned he hopes to stay a Weatherfield resident for a few years to return.
Talking to The Mirror, he mentioned: “I’ve simply celebrated 25 years on Corrie and I don’t see myself going wherever.
“I believe it is common for one in every of these flagship exhibits, like Huge Brother, the jungle, Dancing On Ice, to have a face from Corrie.
They often have one from Corrie or one from Emmerdale. Alan’s [Halsall] simply accomplished the jungle and Sam[Aston] did Dancing On Ice. So yeah, I suppose it is simply my flip I believe. However I’m not going wherever. I believe so long as they will nonetheless write for the character they usually just like the Platts, yeah, I will keep. I prefer it an excessive amount of.”
Jack sees the ITV actuality sequence as a little bit of “banter” and doesn’t wish to find yourself saying something controversial that might threat his profession on the cobbles.
He continued: “The those that I work with, they seem to be a snicker and we simply go in and have amusing all day, actually, and take the p***. Huge Brother is strictly the identical. So Huge Brother is the inexperienced room. It is precisely going to be the inexperienced room, which is why I believe I will be okay as a result of it is simply huge personalities, everybody’s having amusing.
“That is what I assume. I do not know. However that is what I’ve seen on TV that everybody simply has a little bit of banter after which goes to sleep finally.”
Requested if he sees himself staying on ‘Corrie’ for 50 years, he mentioned: “Yeah. I believe if it is nonetheless occurring. If ITV’s nonetheless occurring. If TV exists. Are you aware what I imply? If AI aren’t doing the job as a substitute of people, I do not know.
“Yeah, I believe so long as it is nonetheless going, like say so long as we’re nonetheless fortunate sufficient to get the tales and the writers like us and the general public just like the characters, then yeah. I have a look at somebody like Invoice Roache [Ken Barlow] and wish to observe in his footsteps. It’s mad to assume now that after I began, Helen Value [Gail Platt, his on-screen mum], she’d simply accomplished 25 years. After which I’ve accomplished 25 and she or he did 50 after which completed, that is mad, is not it?
“However after I began and it is like Sally Dynever, who’s Sally Webster, clearly after I began, she’d solely accomplished like 15 years. However after I began, I keep in mind considering Sally is very large and has been in it for years, however it’s solely 15, which does not seem to be so much to me now. It is bizarre, is not it?”
Colson Smith – who has give up his function as Craig Tinker on ‘Corrie’ – did ‘Superstar Huge Brother’ final yr, ending third, and he warned Jack concerning the threat of getting cancelled.
Sharing their dialog previous to him becoming a member of the present, Jack shared: “I watched each episode final yr as nicely as a result of Colson was in it. I used to be capable of see that it truly is nearly attempting to have enjoyable and simply attempting to make individuals snicker, actually. That is what I took from it anyway.
“He was simply speaking by means of the professionals and cons. And the cons are you get cancelled and also you say one thing that offends a nation and begins a struggle. And the professionals are that you just even have a great time, you get pleasure from it, you’ve gotten amusing, you are off work for 3 weeks, despite the fact that it is form of work, however you are off work, it is a bit of a jolly, and there is not many individuals that may say they’ve accomplished it, there’s only some which have ever accomplished it. So to be included in that’s fairly good.
“However you may say one thing positively that somebody, particularly at the present time, shall be offended by. And , in case you miss somebody out, in case you do not embrace somebody then they may get upset, so yeah, you positively can. So you’ll have to watch what you say as a result of the principles with what you say and what you may’t change daily. However so long as you do not get p*****, do not get bare. These are the principles to dwell by! After which often the whole lot else shall be advantageous.”
