Celebrity Big Brother's Colson Smith reveals fear around Coronation Street set tours
20.03.2024 - 22:53
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Colson Smith revealed one of the main worries he has around doing the iconic Coronation Street set tour.
Fans can visit the cobbles on the ITV set in Media City, Salford and get photos in a number of iconic locations, including the Rovers Return. While chatting to Nikita Kuzmin, Ferne Britton and Louis Walsh on Wednesday night's Celebrity Big Brother (March 20), he revealed that a Corrie star 'surprises' the guests each weekend.
Colson, who plays police officer Craig Tinker on the show, explained how the set tour worked. He said: "Every weekend... people are there from all over the world. Canadians come over to visit the street."
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"Isn't that wonderful?" Ferne asked, before following up with: "But isn't it a pain in the a*** having to be 'the star' [that] weekend?" Colson responded: "No," explaining: "You have to come out and surprise everyone."
The 25-year-old then revealed a fear he had on being the tour's star on his weekends, admitting: "I'm always thinking, they all want Gail Platt or whoever and they end up getting me!" He then went on to tell a wholesome tale about one of 'his' weekends on the tour.
He said: "But I did one the other day and I came out and this lad was like: 'Yes! Yes! Yes!' I was like, 'Are you alright?' and he said: 'I've come all the way here and I wanted you.' He'd come all the way from Middlesbrough. So glad... There's that thing in our heads - all of us have the same feeling - that they want to see their favourite character."
Colson added he was 'buzzing' for the lad, as Louis asked if he responds to his fan mail. Colson said that he does, although admitted he's not very consistent