Emmerdale’s Tom Lister in surprise career change 10 years after shock murder of evil villain Carl King
thesun.co.ukEMMERDALE actor Tom Lister is now working as a window cleaner. The star, who played scheming Carl on the soap between 2004 and 2012, has set up a company in Blackpool to bring in extra cash between jobs.
Speaking on Coastal Radio DAB, he opened up about how he started cleaning windows during Covid and it progressed from there.
He explained: "I am still working and I have done lots of things over the last couple of years but it’s probably one of the most tricky periods of my career. "I have been very fortunate, I have had over 20 years acting and worked quite solidly through that period, be it on television or I worked on the West End. "When Covid hit, the work just wasn’t there so Steve Royal and me set up a production company, we made an online pantomime, which we sold to school’s locally." He continued: "But that was only a really short period of time so I was just doing regular jobs like lost of other people.
So I started cleaning windows for my mate’s company and I was doing it for quite awhile and it was great to keep my head sane.
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