Coronation Street star Ben Price reveals surprise animal encounter in his loft

Coronation Street star Ben Price has shared a ridiculous animal encounter he has experienced. The Nick Tilsley star relayed the hilarious tale on the On The Sofa podcast alongside co-hosts Jack P Shepherd and Colson Smith.

Ben said that after hearing an "incredible noise" in his loft one morning, he decided to go and investigate.

Saying he was "half asleep", he grabbed his dressing gown, which Jack joked was "the safest uniform" to don while finding out what was making such a racket.

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"I go next door, and it is an enormous noise in the loft," he said, before demonstrating the noise by banging and scratching a pair of glasses and then his fist on a wooden table.

Jack speculated the noise source was rats, but Ben continued, "I'm like, 'Okay. Squirrel, rat, ghost, badger'. I'm thinking something; it's big, and it's only on the door."

Colson asked what the mystery creature was doing, to which Ben replied it sounded like it was "jumping up and down," and Colson jokingly speculated it could have been a kangaroo.

Ben then decided to click the door open, realising that whatever was in the attic would "fall onto his face or onto the floor" before it became "a fight to the death" between them.

After grabbing his tracksuit bottoms, Adidas Sambas, a jiu-jitsu jumper, and putting his dressing gown on top, he went to the loft hatch with his dog Star and pulled down the hatch.

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He also took a hammer, a move Colson said was an "aggression", and a mop bucket, as well as a stick to open the door from below.

"Boom. Lid. Bang. Mouse. Leg is trapped in a trap," he revealed. "Just the leg. So it's been hopping with the trap all over the loft."

Ben said he screamed when the mouse dropped to the ground, while his dog "looked at him and went, 'right'."

"The mouse is alive, it's fine, these are like humane traps... You can let them go," he continued, saying he dealt with the problem by using his stick to "hook" the mouse and then run through the house with it until he could release it outside.

But when he released it from the trap, the mouse froze, and so did Ben and his dog in a strange Mexican stand-off.

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Unbelievably, the mouse then ran past Ben and Star back inside the house through a small hole in the wall, so the whole commotion had been for nothing.

So if you have any pest problems in your home, it might be best not to call Ben Price for his extermination services.

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