Nick Tilsley

He replaced the fittest actor of all time.

He played Nicky Tilsley.

Do you remember that? Nicky Tilsley, yeah.

From a baby, he played him.

Wasn't there

And they were like, "Right, we're leaving that in," and he's like, "No." [laughs]

Like, you know, when, when we had old Nicky Tilsley flaunting his pecs back in 1997.

It's just not interesting.

Like, he d- he deserves everything he-

I'm glad that they didn't because it was pre- it was just peculiar what they did, getting her involved in gang culture towards the end of it and, you know, she, she was looking ...

That, that was when Nick and Leanne were on the, on the run.

Do you remember? They were hiding out somewhere, and then she would use Aadi's Xbox to try and spy on, um, uh, whoever it was to try and find out where.

That, that was peculiar.

... there's a difference between aging someone up one year and aging them up five years.

Yeah.

And you know, th- they had that with those two, but it was done before with Mark Redman, who was Mike's son, and they aged him up a year, two years maybe, so that he could be in school with Nick Tilsley because the character hadn't been on screen.

But then they brought him into the show.