Colson Smith keen to win CBB after Corrie co-star Ellie Leach's Strictly success

05 March 2024 , 20:57

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Coronation Street star Colson Smith is among the housemates on the new series of Celebrity Big Brother (Image: Getty Images)

Coronation Street's Colson Smith is currently the bookies' favourite to be crowned the winner of Celebrity Big Brother, which will please him, as he'll get some decent bragging rights alongside pal Ellie Leach.

The actor - who has no plans to leave the soap - has set his sights at least on getting to the final, and not getting sacked in the process, as he hopes to resume his role as Corrie copper Craig Tinker. "If I'm doing the show, I want to get as much of the experience as I can," says the 25-year-old.

"So I want to be there for the final day. I think my gutting thing would be is if I was out early - if you're doing it, you might as well do it properly. I can never do Strictly can I now Ellie's gone and won that! It would be mint to win Big Brother though. It'd just be a mint picture of Ellie with the glitterball and me stood there being the Big Brother winner. It'd be like Craig and Faye have done well for themselves."

The actor's appearance on the reality TV show comes after his former Coronation Street co-star Ellie Leach won the latest series of Strictly Come Dancing

Ellie is no longer on the soap, but Colson, who has starred on the cobbles since he was 12, aims to stick around as long as possible, though he worried as he put his agent in touch with his mum that in his absence, they could form a "damage limitation" group. "I love Corrie," he says. "It's a national institution and the small part that I play in it, I'm so lucky to do it. But, I love being myself, you know. I never want to leave the show, but any opportunities I get as Colson, I'm going to take.

"I kind of want to present. That's kind of my dream career, so if that opportunity came and I could stay as Craig, it'd be perfect. But it's just a case of seeing what happens. I'm very fortunate and super lucky. I know whatever opportunities come, Corrie are always gonna support and help me."

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Although he might come back to an alarming amount of work. "There's three weeks of no Craig, which means the crime rate in Weatherfield is probably gonna be through the roof."

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