Colson Smith has admitted he’s “petrified” to leave his flat after a row with neighbours.
The Coronation Street actor, 22, revealed his neighbours branded him an “inconsiderate a**e” after he suffered an epic fail while attempting to do his recycling.
Colson, who plays Craig Tinker on the ITV soap, lives with his co-star Ben Price.
Making the admission on the Sofa Cinema Club podcast, Colson said he discarded the rubbish in “one big box” to discover somebody had gone through his items and put them in the correct location.
He was then mortified as he found a Facebook post had been made about him after the ordeal.
Colson admitted he’s ‘scared’ to leave his home after the recycling row (Image: colsonjsmith/Instagram)
Colson explained: “My delivery boxes I get every week I can’t recycle because they’ve got polystyrene and ice packs in.
“I just chuck it all into one big box, recycle the other, but chuck everything else into one big box and put that in the bin.”
Ben, 48, who plays Nick Tilsey in Corrie, joked the box was the size “of another flat”.
An embarrassed Colson remarked: “I feel like knocking on everyone’s door and apologising.”
The soap star revealed his neighbours branded him an ‘inconsiderate a**e’ after the recycling mishap (Image: colsonjsmith/Instagram)
He continued: “By the bins we saw two empty boxes that weren’t in the recycling bin and I said, ‘Ben, they’re my boxes.’
“Somebody had fished all my rubbish out of the boxes and left the boxes. I genuinely, hand on heart, didn’t realise I was doing something wrong.
“I think someone was peed off that it should’ve been put in the recycling bin.
“I’d filled up the cardboard box with rubbish and used the box itself as a bin and then chucked it in the bin. I thought it was [OK].”
Colson plays Craig Tinker on Coronation Street (Image: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)
The soap star added: “But now the recycling bins have been locked down so you can only put it in through the little post box, and there’s a post on Facebook of somebody ranting about the ‘inconsiderate a**e that’s ruined it for everyone else’. That’s me.
“My mum said I should do what I did this week – basically use two black bin bags. I had to put all the polystyrene balls in one bag, all the side pieces and ice packs in one pack, and fold the boxes down.
“I’m basically walking around the flat now, from the minute I get in the lift to the minute I get out, keeping my head down. I’m petrified.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
