Coronation Road legend Charlie Lawson, who performed Jim McDonald within the long-running ITV cleaning soap for 11 consecutive years, has upset followers along with his newest announcement. The 66-year-old actor, whose character is the daddy of Steve McDonald (performed by Simon Gregson), was on account of seem in a sequence of reveals entitled An Night With Charlie Lawson. Sadly, for many who had tickets, he has introduced that his upcoming dates in Scotland have been cancelled.
Blaming “unexpected circumstances,” he took to Instagram to announce the information to his 25.7K followers. He revealed: “Pay attention, on account of unexpected circumstances – and that is unexpected circumstances within the plural – we’re having to tug, or postpone actually, the Night with Charlie Lawson tour subsequent month, in December. That is to do with a myriad of causes, which I will not bore you with. However anyway, unexpected circumstances, and so forth, and so forth.”
“No one is extra sorry than me,” he continued. “However as typically occurs with these items, you make an funding and also you launch, and all the pieces doesn’t go in line with plan.
“So regrettably, to you good folks up in Scotland, I am going to not be seeing in December. However we can be having a radical rethink within the new 12 months, and hopefully a night with Charlie Lawson can be reborn.”
He ended the clip with one other apology, saying: “Within the meantime, cheerio, now, sorry, people.” The star was on account of carry out 10 dates throughout Scotland starting in Dundee on December 8. Alongside common tickets for £25, a meet and greet possibility was accessible for £38.75.
Charlie has struggled since leaving the cleaning soap. In a candid chat in January of this 12 months, he shared his monetary woes, admitting that the hovering power prices had hit him laborious, as he revealed being unable to afford heating in his house.
The scenario was exacerbated when his spouse, Debbie, needed to shut down her Cheshire farm store, propelling them right into a authorized quagmire over money owed of practically £50,000.
In August this 12 months, he shared he was now working part-time in a espresso van. Taking to X on August 16, he posted a video which he captioned: “Bridge 19 cafe Macclesfield canal, serving to my good good friend Lisa. Pop in Saturday and Sundays 9am till 2pm.”
Within the clip, he mentioned: “I am right here typically, cooking for you so you may get a selfie and all that type of craic as effectively.”
