Coronation Street star Ryan Thomas has revealed that one co-star confronted him over "cocky" behaviour on set when he was younger. The star famously played Jason Grimshaw on the soap for 16 years before departing a decade ago, reprising the role briefly last summer.
The actor reflected on his earlier years while chatting on the At Home with The Thomas Bro's podcast, notably in the wake of brother Adam's time on I'm a Celebrity: South Africa.
"I think showbiz is a bit of a crazy world at times… If I'm going to sit here and talk about the showbiz world, I’ll even talk about myself, like growing up like, you know my ego and the things I used to do growing up," he told his sibling.
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"But I was young kid growing up in the public eye and I was, I could say at times, I was actually a proper dickhead. And I wear my heart on my sleeve."
Ryan went on to reveal that Corrie co-star Charles Dale, who played Dennis Stringer on the soap, once pulled him to one side in the green room and gave him some advice.
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"He said, 'You’re acting a little bit cocky and people are seeing it and it’s not looking good'. I was like, 'Yeah, I needed that'."
The star suggested that the "problem" in showbiz now is that "everyone’s playing the game" and that "the game’s changing".
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"No-one wants to see the filtered version of anyone anymore, right?" he elaborated. "Everyone’s seen the light, everyone can see through it, right."
It comes after Ryan spoke on the podcast about his apparent "reputation" for "being quite rude" to fans asking for photos, recalling one incident when "there was like two or three people asking for photos", responding: "I'm not terrible, actually... I'm the same as you, I'm good with people."
When Adam said it was an "old lady", Ryan shared: "She was there, and she was taking pictures. And we both leant in and we did a picture, while she was taking the pictures without even asking."
His brothers suggested that the woman was struggling with her phone and was nervous, before Scott proposed that Ryan was an "old-school celebrity" and "used to get absolutely pestered all the time".
Coronation Street airs on weeknights at 8.30pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX.
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