Coronation Street star says ITV soap is ‘not worth watching anymore’

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A Coronation Street star has hit out on the present saying “it’s not worth watching” anymore, as a consequence of its storylines changing into more and more unbelievable.

Bruce Jones, 71, performed fan favorite taxi driver Les Battersby from 1997 to 2007, and revealed that he and his spouse not watch the programme.

“I watched it from day one but now my wife says it’s not worth watching. You can’t have that many murders on one street,” he instructed The Guardian.“She’s watched it all her life but she’ll tell you ‘it’s not just me saying it, it’s everyone’.”

Jones is not the one one to share his considerations across the present’s storylines.

Maureen Lipman, who performed Evelyn Plummer the grandmother of veteran solid member Tyrone Dobbs, instructed the Beyond the Title podcast final month: “We’ve come to a point in Corrie now where people are getting murdered in knicker factories. We’re having domestic abuse … anything that ticks the box of social problems in the 21st-century is going to be in [it].”

Jones left Coronation Street in 2007 and mentioned that the departure was voluntary though different reviews on the time steered he had been suspended from work as a consequence of ingesting. In 2015, he shared he had been compelled to reside off advantages.

The star made his wrestling debut final month as he paid homage to his onscreen persona at an occasion hosted by Sovereign Pro Wrestling.

“They don’t call him Batters-by for nothing,” he instructed the group.

He believes that the lowering recognition of the programme is its failure to remain true to its northern roots in Manchester.

“The writers we had were living Manchester city life. It’s not the actors’ faults – they’re all doing a good job for my money – but it’s the writers that have changed. I actually think we’ve lost that element of what Manchester life is all about.”

Sharing his ideas on what may rectify the present’s trajectory, he steered: “Get it back to what Coronation Street was – a community. The comedy was there and the tragedy came after. That’s what it was and the love of the people in the street, that’s gone.”