Former Coronation Street star Colson Smith, beloved by soap fans for playing kind copper Craig Tinker, has had to increase security at his home following thieves breaking in to his car.
Colson spoke about the horrifying incident on his podcast, On The Sofa, which he presents with former castmates Jack P. Shepherd and Ben Price, who play David Platt and Nick Tilsley respectively.
He spoke of the robbery and the measures he’s taken to increase security since, revealing a bag full of cricket gear has been taken from his car.
Colson described going ‘full Fort Knox’ with security following the scary incident, joking that he’s ‘gone shark cage over the house’
Colson recently shared on the popular podcast that he’d ‘disgraced himself’ while filming the BBC game show, The Weakest Link when he was shown a picture of legendary tennis player, Venus Williams.
When asked to name the icon, with the clue being that she was named after a planet, Colson answered ‘Jupiter Williams’.
Although deeply embarrassed, he did reveal that he wasn’t the first celebrity to be eliminated from the show.
Colson has become somewhat of a game show aficionado recently, appearing on Celebrity Mastermind, while revealing he’d been invited to appear on Celebrity Pointless, after which Jack offered to be his partner.
Colson grew up before viewers eyes on Coronation Street, first appearing at the tender age of 13 as the son of Beth Tinker (Lisa George).
What happened to Craig Tinker?
Viewers later watched Craig courageously battle OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and become a police officer, before Craig was axed from the show earlier this year.
‘Autumn last year I was told that Craig Tinker’s time on the Cobbles is to come to end in 2025. I’ve loved every single second of my 14 year stay as a resident on the greatest street in the world. I feel incredibly lucky to have grown up in, on and around Coronation Street.
‘I’ve learned pretty much everything about life from the people who call it home. I’m excited to play out the exit story for our Craigy. For me, this is the end of the beginning I genuinely can’t wait to see what chapter two has in store for me’.
Rumours swirled prior to Craig’s exit that he would be given a grisly send off and be departing the cobbles in a coffin, with a source telling The Sun: ‘Craig has grown up on the street and he’s become part of it so it was a tough decision to make but one that will be worth it.
‘PC Tinker will meet his maker in heroic circumstances this summer and there won’t be a dry eye in the house when it goes out.
‘Colson is taking it well and there’s a real feeling that this chapter is closing for him and there are bigger and brighter things ahead. He’ll film his final scenes later this month and then he’ll say goodbye to Craig once and for all.’
Craig did indeed bow out under tragic circumstances after he was struck with a baseball bat by Mick Michaelis (Joe Layton). Found by Maria Connor (Samia Longchambon), he was rushed to hospital, though succumbed to his injuries shortly after.
Speaking further on the decision to kill off his character, Colson said at the time: ‘In the conversation with Kate [Brooks, producer], there had been about 20 minutes of Kate talking to me, but we hadn’t touched on when or how, or who or what.
‘So I stopped Kate and said, ‘Look, I have two questions, and one is when, and two is, do I get killed?’ She stopped and stumbled a little bit. And I said, if it makes it easier for you, the right answer for me is yes. For me to go, I would want to leave.
‘I would want to die, I would want the door to be shut, so then I can know in my head that Corrie has been this, Corrie has done that, and it is now done, and Craig’s journey is over.
‘So in a really weird way, it was the right thing for me to be killed. I didn’t want that ‘we might have you back’, knowing that it would be very unlikely, and knowing that it would feel a bit like unfinished business and an unfinished job.
‘So I think Craig dying, and Craig dying in the line of duty as a copper, that kind of hero’s death was by far the most perfect story for the exit.’
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