ITV I’m A Celebrity’s Alan Halsall leaves Danny Jones stunned with Coronation Street admission

Coronation Street actor Alan Halsall, who has played Tyrone Dobbs in the ITV soap since 1998, left his I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! campmates stunned with his incredible admission

Alan Halsall, who stars as the endearing mechanic Tyrone Dobbs on Coronation Street, astonished his I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! campmates in Wednesday’s episode with a revelation about his long-running acting career.

During a conversation about their respective professions, Alan, 42, divulged to his campmates that his daughter Sienna, whom he shares with his former wife and fellow soap star Lucy-Jo Hudson, is keen to become an actress just like her parents.

He shared: “Sienna says to me: ‘Dad, your job is so easy… if you get it wrong, you just do it again. On stage, I can’t get it wrong.’ Oh yeah. But I treat my work like that, I only get one shot at this!”

Alan then went on to explain his unique approach to learning his lines: “Driving to work in the morning, when I get my script, I just go like that and that’s it! Let’s say I’ve got ten scenes on a Thursday, I can’t learn Thursday’s on Tuesday’s because I might have ten scenes on Wednesday so I’ve got to get through Wednesday before I can learn Thursday’s and then it just happened like that. So now I just learn it in the morning!”, reports the Express.

McFly star Danny Jones was completely taken aback by Alan’s technique, expressing his admiration with: “It’s amazing he can do it like that… it takes me years to learn my lyrics. To be able to do that is some talent!”

Taking to Twitter, now X, one viewer said after the scene aired: “Alan is amazing the way he can remember things #ImACeleb”, a different account put: “FINALLY some Alan airtime #ImACeleb”, another wrote: “Alan learning his lines on the day #imaceleb” with a laughing emoji while a different viewer added: “Hahaaa, that actually makes perfect sense, now, Alan, when you put it like that! #ImACelebrity #ImACeleb.”

It comes as Coronation Street star Jennie McAlpine revealed an unexpected fact about her co-star Alan during a chat on This Morning last week.

Alan, famed for his role as Tyrone and currently on I’m A Celebrity, was the topic of conversation when Jennie, who portrays Fiz Brown and is herself a former jungle contestant from 2017, joined This Morning live from the iconic Rovers Return Inn.

**Alan stars as the endearing mechanic Tyrone Dobbs on Coronation Street** (Image: (Image: ITV))

Host Dermot O’Leary quizzed Jennie about whether she had any concerns for Alan’s stint in the jungle, asking if he’s more of a homebody, to which she replied: “A homebody but also not nervous at all, no I wasn’t.”

She added with certainty: “I knew he’d be great, he is what you see, I knew he’d get on with people that’s what you’ve got to do when you’re there, get on with people, muck in.

“He is a homebody, he loves his home comforts but he is a bit of an adrenaline junkie. In his older age now he does less of it but back in the day he did. I think he would have loved a skydive or something similar. Anything a bit scary, he’s alright with!”

I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! airs every night at 9pm on ITV1, STV and ITV X.