Former Coronation Street actor Chris Fountain has had a change of career – revealing that he will now appear on stage in a strip show.
Previously playing Tommy Duckworth for two years on the show, the soapland hunk left in 2013, after a video emerged of him rapping about raping and murdering women.
After crisis talks with TV bosses, Chris was asked to leave the show, and told he would be ‘unemployable’ for five years.
He has kept a remarkably low profile since the incident two years ago, occasionally DJing in a Manchester from 2014.
But now the star has revealed he’s joined the cast of The Full Monty – a theatre production where the cast will strip down to their skin for the show.
Chris with some of his Corrie castmates
Joined by other former UK soapstars, the 28-year-old will start the tour in September 2016.
Based on the 90s film of the same name, the plot focuses on a group of former steelworkers who have been laid off. Desperate to make money, they hatch a plan to perform as a male strip group to entertain locals.
Despite the film’s astounding success, it did cause controversy for two Kiwi playwrights – Anthony McCarten and Stephen Sinclair – who say it blatantly ripped off their play Ladies Night. They sued the producers of the film in the 90s and the issue was settled out of court.
