Coronation Street stars and fans support Alan Halsall over '25 year' announcement amid health-based soap absence
manchestereveningnews.co.ukCoronation Street star and fans have flooded Alan Halsall with support as he made a '25 year' announcement. The actor, who is currently on a health-based absence from the ITV soap, is best known for playing Tyrone Dobbs.
He made his Weatherfield debut, aged 15, in November 1998 in the role of the delinquent son of Jackie Dobbs. At sixteen, he left his mother and her difficult ways behind and trained as an apprentice mechanic under Kevin Webster and 10 years later ended up buying half the business.
The rest, as they say, is history and throughout the years fans of the ITV soap have seen much of Tyrone's storylines focused on his relationships.
And on Thursday (November 30), Alan revealed that at 7.30pm on this day 25 years ago, he watched himself on the cobbles for the first time. READ MORE: Coronation Street's Claire Sweeney says 'I will miss you' as she breaks silence on co-star death READ MORE: Read more of our Coronation Street stories here Taking to Instagram, he shared a number of pictures of himself playing Tyrone throughout the years, starting with a sweet throwback from when he first joined the Manchester institution. "Wow!!" the 41-year-old soap star, from Walkden, Worsley, started the caption of his post.
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