Coronation Street’s Martin Platt star Sean Wilson reveals TV return after major career change
FORMER Coronation Street star Sean Wilson has revealed that he is eyeing up a major TV return.
The actor is well remembered for his role of Martin Platt, the former husband of Street stalwart Gail.
He left the show in 2005 to instead focusing on a different passion of his – food.
Sean has gained a reputation for being involved in the making and production of cheese as well as turning his hand to all different types of cookery.
Now, the actor has admitted that he is planning to merge the two together for a first class TV show.
Sean told the Daily Star that he was in talks with the Discovery Channel about launching his own programme with them.
He told the publication: “I’ve got an idea for a documentary about my cheese business and I’ve got an idea for a series where I go to inner-city communities where people are struggling, and then get to know people.
“I’ve had conversations with a producer and Discovery Channel are looking at some proposals which I’ve put together. There are loads of ideas flying around.”
He has released a series of cookbooks as well as making many guest TV appearances in relation to his cheese business in the years since leaving Weatherfield.
Sean has confessed that filming such a series with Discovery would be a ‘dream come true’ after revealing he has been constantly “trying to piece it together”.
The actor stunned the nation when he first announced his move into the world of cheese-making but it has turned out to be a triumph for the star with him going on to become an acclaimed entrepreneur in the field.
He previously told chat show host Graham Norton about his work and said: “Cheese is my passion, and I make Lancashire cheeses, so they’re very much under the banner of territorial cheeses, which then takes you to the history of British cheese.
“We have Lancashire, Cheshire, Wensleydale, Stilton, double Gloucester and your single Gloucester and then Cheddar. They’re Britain’s oldest cheeses.”
