Coronation Street legend Sean Wilson is in talks to front his own cookery show.
Since finding fame as Weatherfield hunk Martin Platt, the actor has carved out a career as a food guru and he’s on the brink of signing a big-money deal with Discovery Channel to front a series.
Sean said: “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.”
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Sean is hoping to sign a big-money deal within weeks. It has been his dream to do a food show for years. He said: “I’m trying constantly to piece something together. I’ve been trying for a long time. Good things come to those who try. It seems to be quite hard to get something made. You can have the best proposal known to man and it gets put in front of someone who’s having a bad day and your luck goes out of the window.”
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Sean, who left Corrie in 2005 – with a brief return in 2018 – also has a career penning cookbooks. His latest one, Jazz Food, is available from rachelcookepublishing.co.uk. Earlier this year he popped into The Graham Norton Radio Show With Waitrose to open up about his career change.
“Cheese is my passion,” Sean said at the time. “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 Gloucesters and your single Gloucesters and then Cheddar. They’re Britain’s oldest cheeses.”
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Martin revealed that his passion for cooking started early – when he got his own kitchen, aged 19. “I wanted to cook earlier than that,” he recalled, but his mother would always say she was “too busy” and “shoo” him out of the kitchen. He said: “When I got my own kitchen, and [legendary TV chef] Keith Floyd had come to our screens, I suddenly ended up popping over to France and buying corn fed chickens and stuff.
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“I remember asking for a corn fed chicken where I live in the suburbs of Manchester, and getting the strangest of looks! But it was my kitchen and Keith that was my awakening.”
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