Coronation Street star Colson Smith reveals he is taking time off to become a FARMER

Coronation Street actor Colson Smith has revealed he is taking some time off from the classic ITV soap to become a farmer.  

The Dorset native, 22, who stepped foot on the cobbles for the first time in 2011, now wants to take a four week break to help his sister, Hannah, on her farm. 

He hopes to lend his veterinarian sibling a hand as lambing season commences, as he branded himself a ‘top farmer.’   

‘April is lambing season and I’ve got the call up – I’m in for lambing season,’ Colson said on the Sofa Cinema Club podcast to co-hosts Ben Price and Jack P. Shepherd.

‘I’m off work for the whole of April, so I’m going to be there lambing. It’s going to be great.’

Colson, who is known for his portrayal of the lovable Craig Tinker, said he helped on the farm last month as he continued: ‘It’s been full-on. I finished work and I got a call saying, “you need to come and help out, we need some help on the farm”.

‘I’m a top farmer. I can drive the tractor, I’m good at that kind of stuff.  

‘My family has all been brought up in the countryside. They are all very outdoors-y, academic, smart people.

‘And then there’s me. I’m a bit of a townie, because I wanted to be an actor when everybody else wanted to live by the fat of the land sort of thing.’

Colson revealed he also helped raise a baby cow. He added: ‘So I was called to action because there had just been a calf born. So I went to feed the calf. I was quite good.

‘I had to milk its mum by hand, which was quite interesting because I was touching its teats and I didn’t even know its name.I rocked up in my Yeezys to go and do all this work.’

Colson recently underwent a dramatic transformation after adopting a healthier lifestyle in 2020. 

The soap star first showed off his impressive weight loss last March, but has been continuing to slim down while in lockdown, shedding over 10 ten stone.  

Speaking about his staggering weight loss, he said it could cause continuity issues on Coronation Street during filming and joked he will have to wear a fat suit.   

Colson told The Sun last year: ‘We are in direct continuity, but I’ve almost lost about ten stone since we left work so I’m not sure that [my hair] is going to be the biggest of their issues.

‘I might be wearing a wig and a fat suit when we go back. Now we go to a purple shampoo, which almost makes it a platinum sort of colour, which basically takes the ginger pigment out.

‘So the yellow-ness will go, and I will have a head of blonde hair, which I technically do now.’