Alan Halsall hopes his 'Coronation Street' character Tyrone Dobbs reunites with Fiz Brown.
Alan Halsall
The 38-year-old actor's mechanic alter ego left his long-term partner Fiz (Jennie McAlpine) to start a relationship with Alina Pop - played by Ruxandra Porojnicu - but Alan admits that he would love for the pair to get back together because they've become such an iconic couple in the ITV soap.
He said: "Personally, as an actor, or course I would love that, we’ve worked together for a long time and I love working with Jennie McAlpine who plays Fiz. She’s a joy. But I don’t know what will happen. Whether they can reconcile their differences on screen, we’ll have to wait and see. I’m sure that will be a long way away even if they do."
Alan admits that Tyrone is now torn about his decision to walk out on Fiz and their daughters since Alina got pregnant because the exciting new life he had envisioned is now seemingly disappearing, leaving him feeling a "bit lost".
He said: "He’s feeling a bit lost at the moment. He’s got a lot going on – there are lots of other people that are unhappy in his life – his children, Fiz and he’s got some issues with Alina. Tyrone is a people pleaser and right now he’s not pleasing anybody and that’s hard for him.
"He thought he’d seen this exciting new life and now that Alina is pregnant it’s not what he imagined."
Alan has also revealed that Tyrone gets an attack of the "green-eyed monster" when he sees Fiz on a date with Phil, a customer at the furniture shop.
He added: "He doesn’t take it well that Fiz is moving on – the green-eyed monster is there – and he makes a drunken fool of himself! They’re in the bistro and Tyrone is on a date with Alina too but he can’t concentrate for watching Fiz and Phil. It gets to him, he’s not really sure why, but he can’t help himself from making some snide comments.
"Fiz is moving on and it’s a real eye-opener for him. He thinks that Fiz is just sat at home crying and then when he realises that she’s not he gets very jealous and a bit bitter about it. He takes a swing at Phil and misses and makes a drunken fool of himself."
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