CORONATION Street veteran Jack P Shepherd will star in this year’s Celebrity Big Brother.
The actor, best known for playing Gail Platt’s wayward son David Platt, is expected to be one of the biggest names to sign up for the show.
Corrie’s Jack P Shepherd has signed up for Celebrity Big Brother[/caption]
His character David will be seen getting left for dead after being hit by a car on the cobble[/caption]
Jack, 37, is following in the footsteps of his Corrie pal Colson Smith who played copper Craig Tinker, after he went on CBB last year.
A TV insider said: “The two lads are great mates, and Colson no doubt told Jack he’d have the time of his life on the show.
“Jack will be making the most of a gap in appearing on Corrie, which comes as he’s about to be at the centre of a huge storyline on the ITV soap.
“His character David will be seen getting left for dead after being hit by a car on the cobbles – but it will transpire it’s actually a bizarre attempt to end his own life.”
The news series of CBB is expected to air this spring though ITV have yet to confirm a launch date.
A spokesman for ITV said: “Any names linked to the Celebrity Big Brother line up are purely speculative.”
Jack has been a member of the Corrie cast for 24 years and first appeared as the son of Gail and Martin Platt when he was 13 years old.
Since then he’s been at the heart of some of the soap’s biggest storylines, the most recent of which has seen him getting targeted by gangster Harvey Gaskell, to whom he owes massive debts.
But he rarely appears on reality TV shows, having previously only been on a handful of gameshows and Ghosthunting with Coronation Street in 2008.
Jack’s character has been a center of a huge storyline[/caption]
