Coronation Street's Jack P Shepherd shares bizarre experience with fan on holiday

Outside of filming the ITV show, it's perhaps not unusual for Coronation Street star Jack P. Shepherd to be asked for a selfie by fans of his character David Platt.

But when a fan approached him for a selfie while on holiday in York, the actor who has starred in the show since 2000, was left scratching his head when it transpired that the fan pretended to not know who he was and created an over inflated cover-up story.

Recalling the "bizarre" encounter, he shared the experience on his podcast On The Sofa. He revealed: "Anyway so I'm in York and we needed some nappies. So I just nip into Tesco and getting some nappies and this lad, guy comes up to me and he goes, 'Oh um, you're the bloke from Coronation Street, aren't you?'

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"And I go 'Oh yeah , yeah' and he goes, 'Would you mind if my son has a picture with you?' and I'm like 'Ph yeah yeah sure.' And he gets his camera out and I'm like 'Where is he?' and he goes 'Oh no, he's not here. He's in Nottingham.'

The married father of four then joked with his co-hosts and Corrie co-stars Colson Smith and Ben Price, that he was not prepared to wait three hours for his son to travel from Nottingham to York.

He added: "Then he said, 'No, no me and you will take it and we'll send him it. He's a big fan'. And then he goes, 'I don't know who you are' which I thought was odd."

Shepherd then said he asked the man : "'But if [your son is] not here how did you know?' He went 'It's my wife, I've got my wife on the Bluetooth on the phone now'.

I'm like, 'Oh right ok'. So we took the picture and he went, 'Remind me who you are again?'. And I went, 'I'm off Coronation Street.'

But that wasn't enough for the fan as he pressed harder for an answer to find out Shepherd's character name. Noticing something was amiss Shepherd thought he would have a bit of fun with his request.

"And I went Dev. And he went 'No, no you're not.' And I went 'Oh yeah you're right. I'm Roy,'" the actor recalled.

"I thought you know. Your wife isn't here, so how the f**k has your wife told you it's me and your son is in Nottingham. What are you doing with yourself? Why are you trying to pretend you don't know. It's just me and you in the nappy aisle!"

He added: "Just admit that you recognise me. It's just bizarre, what's the point. It doesn't make sense, you're on your own. Who told you it's me if no one was here to tell you? I never told him who I was. I thought I'm not going to let you know who I am. But you still asked me for a picture."

Shepherd concluded his anecdote saying that he "never" told the fan the name of his character and that the picture they ended up taking was "f**king great" as the fan broke into a half smile while he simply looked confused.

Coronation Street airs on weeknights at 8.30pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX.

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