Coronation Street star jokes he's 'in bits' as Jack P Shepherd admits funeral filming reality

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Coronation Street star Jack P Shepherd has left fans in stitches as he revealed the reality of filming the show's latest emotional funeral scenes as Paul Foreman was laid to rest.

It comes just under a month after the ITV soap character, played by Peter Ash for six years, tragically died after being diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) in April 2023.

Early last month, Bernie Winter and Summer Spellman with Paul when his health took a sudden turn as he started struggling to breathe.

The pair called for an ambulance and Paul was rushed to the hospital where Bernie, Summer and Paul's sister Gemma Winter-Brown were soon told by doctors there was nothing more they could do. READ MORE: Coronation Street star teases 'bad news' for Dee-Dee Bailey as she says 'it's only the beginning' READ MORE: Read more of our Coronation Street stories here As they said their heartbreaking goodbyes, there was a tragic twist when Paul's husband Billy Mayhew didn't make it to the hospital in time to fulfil his promise of being by Paul's side when the time came due to a string of unfortunate events that delayed him getting there and arriving once Paul had already passed.