Michael Starke who plays Kebab shop boss Jerry Morton in the soap sensation coronation street, did not know that he was being axed until he read about it in a newspaper.
Starke’s character and his whole on-screen family was believed not be settling in very well and as a result the decision was made to write him, Mel (Emma Edmonson), Darryl (Johnny Dixon), Kayleigh (Jessica Bardon) and Finlay (Ramone Quinn) out of the the ITV1 show.
”There was a leak, so I was at home when I got the news. It was very unfortunate, but that’s the way it goes in this business,”
Michael told the Liverpool Daily Post.
“You shouldn’t find out about your job like that, but there are a lot of sacrifices that you make in this game.”
“We have been adrift, because we haven’t had many storylines and those that we have had have been dropped because something’s changed,”
Michael explained.
“Now we have a storyline, it’s looking really good and it’s a chance to show that we’ve got something - and give the family a chance to really blend and show what they’re all about.”