Take Platt!
The day Corrie Ivy whacked me with a handbag filled with coins - by Sean Wilson, Street’s Martin Platt
CORRIE’S Sean Wilson was left with a bleeding ear after co-star Lynne Perrie filled her handbag with 50p coins – and whacked him around the head
Sean, who played Martin Platt, said Ivy Tilsley actress Lynne had been to the bank ahead of the scene in the Rovers where she hit him.
The 56-year-old said it was part of a plot in which Ivy took offence to Martin’s relationship with her on-screen daughter, Gail.
He revealed: “He’s in the pub and playing darts and Ivy came in and sees Martin and takes him to task.
“He is being a bit flippant. He becomes a bit more flippant once too often and she takes her handbag – which was in the script – and hits him with her bag around the face.
“Fair enough, we are all prepared for it so we go for a take and she hits me with this bag – it was full of bags of 50p’s. She’d been to the bank and bought all these bags of 50p’s. I had blood coming down from my ear.”
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Sean said Lynne’s erratic behaviour on set meant the cast never knew what she would do next. “It depended on which Lynne Perrie was going to turn up,” he said. “When she was on it she was like a diamond, she was on it and you could so tell and that’s why she was employed. She was class but then of course... sometimes you didn’t know who was going to turn up.” Lynne died aged 74 after a stroke in 2006. For years she had battled booze and ill health, including heart problems. The Mirror told last week how Charlie Lawson, who played Jim McDonald, said Lynne had supplied him with a cocktail of pills on nights out on the town. Speaking to the Distinct Nostalgia podcast, Sean said he quit the show when bosses wanted his character to become a paedophile.
He said: “The producer and writers had a penchant for throwing controversial storylines at me, which was great. But the final one they put to me was that I was going to start seeing a 14-year-old girl and I just said, ‘I’m not doing that.’” After two decades on screen he entered a new world – setting up the Saddleworth Cheese Company, which has gone on to win numerous awards. In 2017 he landed a deal with Asda to supply 200 branches. “My products are going nationwide,” said Sean, who briefly returned to Corrie in 2019. “We supply 180 stores with delicatessens, so we’re very honoured. “I walk down the street and most people acknowledge I’m one of them, which is great when you’re selling something.”
She was class... but you didn’t know which Lynne was going to turn up