Coronation Street star Jack P Shepherd has revealed a near-miss involving some scissors on the ITV’s soap’s set, after one co-star came dangerously close to snipping another’s hair off during a scene.

During a recent episode of his On The Sofa podcast, the actor noted that he’s become quite skilled at pretending to cut hair, with his character David Platt having been a hairdresser on the street for some 20 years.

“David first started cutting hair at the age of 17 which would mean I’ve mean cutting hair for 20 years,” he shared.

“They’re real scissors, because they’re scissors from whichever makeup artist or supervisor is on that unit. So they just give me their scissors that are out of their bag.

“Usually I go to the back of the person of whoever is there, I take a section and go all the way down the hair using two fingers with the hair in there, and I almost, almost hit the hair but I don’t.”

While Shepherd has never made a slip himself, he has revealed that his co-star Samia Longchambon, who plays Maria Windass, caused filming to halt when she came dangerously close to cutting Kate Ford’s (Tracey Barlow) hair for real.

“Samia nearly cut Kate Ford’s fringe off,” he said. “She got her full fringe in her fingers and she almost went down.

“Kate stopped the take and went, ‘Samia, Samia, wait! What are you doing?!'”

Shepherd was recently crowned the winner of Celebrity Big Brother‘s 2025 series, beating follow finalists Chris Hughes, Chesney Hawkes, Donna Preston, JoJo Siwa and Danny Beard.

“I can’t believe it, I am blown away I didn’t expect it,” he said after his triumph. “I thought I was a shoo-in for maybe fifth. As people were disappearing I thought ‘surely not’.

“I just figured that I might annoy a few people and they might not quite know how to work me out and then after a while they changed opinions and, yeah, I guess I was liked by the end.”