SHOCKING NEWS!! Coronation Street star opens up on ’emotional’ food bingeing struggles

Coronation Street actor Colson Smith opened up about his struggle with food bingeing.

The Craig Tinker actor took to TikTok to answer a question from one of his followers, who wanted to know what had been the turning point in him

deciding to get fit.

‘I had to. I was on dodgy grounds,’ the 26-year-old said. ‘I didn’t realise how big I was, and I don’t think you do. But I was like 24 stone before Covid. I was so unhealthy.

‘I had this relationship with food where I would do this restrictive eating cycle. I would eat s*** loads of food and hate myself for it so I would then punish myself by not eating.

‘Then I would get so hungry and emotional about how I hadn’t eaten that I would then go and binge again.’

He explained how this cycle lasted ‘for the best part of a year’, until he saw the opportunity for an ‘important’ Coronation Street storyline.

Colson Smith with his hands in his pockets on a red carpet
Colson pitched a storyline to Corrie bosses 
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Colson has played Craig Tinker since 2011

‘I had a thought that there might be a way we could play a story with Craig where he had an eating disorder with his OCD.

‘Obviously, slightly close to home, but I thought it would make for a really good story, and I think it’s important that stuff like that is told on TV.’

He went on to reveal that Corrie bosses were ‘all for it’, but Covid led to a change of plans.

The actor has previously opened up about undergoing a hair transplant after noticing hair loss at the age of 22.

‘Losing my hair at such a young age has been a tough thing for me to come to terms with, I instantly feel SOOO much better and more confident that I’ve taken a step to getting back my luscious strawberry blonde locks,’ he wrote alongside an Instagram post.

The actor, who has been on Corrie since 2011, came in 3rd place behind Strictly star Nikita Kuzmin and Ibiza Weekender rep David Potts in ITV’s revival of Celebrity Big Brother earlier this year.

Craig Tinker gestures as he talks to Kit Green, who has his arms folded, in the police station in Coronation Street
Kit makes it clear to Craig that he is in charge of the case 

During his time on the show he came to blows with Reggae Reggae Sauce inventor Levi Roots who branded his behaviour as ‘boring’.

His Coronation Street alter-ego found himself in trouble with colleague DC Kit Green (Jacob Roberts) recently, when he started to investigate the theft of Debbie Webster’s (Sue Devaney) car.

Viewers saw Daniel Osbourne (Rob Mallard) steal and crash the vehicle, with Daisy Midgeley (Charlotte Jordan) disposing of the evidence – something that Kit discovered through CCTV.

Kit then caught Craig double checking the CCTV footage, and asserts that he is in charge of the case.

In upcoming scenes, Leanne Battersby (Jane Danson) continues to exact revenge on her ex-fiancée Nick Tilsley (Ben Price) and sister Toyah Habeeb (Georgia Taylor).

After discovering their affair, she’s been squirrelling money from the Viaduct Bistro into an account set up under Toyah’s name to frame her for fraud.

When she finds Christmas presents from Nick to Toyah, she decides to up the ante by taking them to the police station and tells Craig that she believes Toyah and Nick were in it together.

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