I'm a Celeb: Alan Halsall on learning his lines for Corrie
Alan Halsall left his I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! campmates stunned on Wednesday night as he made a Coronation Street admission.
During the latest episode, the stars were talking about their careers where Alan, 42, who has played loveable mechanic Tyrone Dobbs since 1998, revealed that his daughter Sienna, who he shares with ex-wife and fellow soap star Lucy-Jo Hudson, wants to follow in their footsteps and be an actress.
Alan said: "Sienna says to me: 'Dad, your job is so easy... if you get it wrong, you just do it again. On stage, I can't get it wrong.' Oh yeah. But I treat my work like that, I only get one shot at this!
"Driving to work in the morning, when I get my script, I just go like that and that's it! Let's say I've got ten scenes on a Thursday, I can't learn Thursday's on Tuesday because I might have ten scenes on Wednesday so I've got to get through Wednesday before I can learn Thursday's and then it just happened like that. So now I just learn it in the morning!"
McFly star Danny Jones was left astounded over Alan's admission as he said: "It's amazing that he can do that... it takes me years to learn my lyrics. To be able to do that is some talent!"
Taking to Twitter, now X, one viewer said after the scene aired: "Alan is amazing the way he can remember things #ImACeleb", a different account put: "FINALLY some Alan airtime #ImACeleb", another wrote: "Alan learning his lines on the day #imaceleb" with a laughing emoji while a different viewer added: "Hahaaa, that actually makes perfect sense, now, Alan, when you put it like that! #ImACelebrity #ImACeleb."
It comes as Coronation Street star Jennie McAlpine revealed an unexpected fact about her co-star Alan during a chat on This Morning last week.
Alan, famed for his role as Tyrone and currently on I'm A Celebrity, was the topic of conversation when Jennie, who portrays Fiz Brown and is herself a former jungle contestant from 2017, joined This Morning live from the iconic Rovers Return Inn.
Host Dermot O'Leary quizzed Jennie about whether she had any concerns for Alan's stint in the jungle, asking if he's more of a homebody, to which she replied: "A homebody but also not nervous at all, no I wasn't."
She added with certainty: "I knew he'd be great, he is what you see, I knew he'd get on with people that's what you've got to do when you're there, get on with people, muck in.
"He is a homebody, he loves his home comforts but he is a bit of an adrenaline junkie. In his older age now he does less of it but back in the day he did. I think he would have loved a skydive or something similar. Anything a bit scary, he's alright with!"
I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! airs every night at 9pm on ITV1, STV and ITV X.
