...but not for long

Lee Mack has one showbiz ambition left to fulfil – appearing in Coronation Street.

The stand-up – who also hosts ITV1’s The 1% Club  – says that when he started in the business, there were two things he wanted to do - ‘be in Doctor Who, and a little part in Corrie’.

He got to appear alongside Jodie Whittaker’s Time Lord when he played Dan Cooper in the 2018 episode Kerblam!

But speaking of his soap ambition on Emily Dean’s Walking The Dog podcast, he said: ‘I'm not joking, I would like a small part in Coronation Street.

‘I'll just pop in, go up to the bar at The Rovers, they go "Are you new round here?" and I go "Yeah, I just sacked the secretary and I'll tell you something, she's not coming back if she's spreading rumours like that about me," and then I just go again.

‘But I'm not willing to spend more than two or three days on set because I've got things to do. When I say "things to do", I just like being at home.’

Published: 5 Jan 2024