Simon Gregson admitted the first ten years he spent working on Coronation Street were "hell" and he doesn't know how he survived.
Read more: Coronation Street legend Vicky Entwistle makes rare appearance at wedding and reunites with co-stars "At the beginning my character wasn't very well liked and that reflected in your real life." Alfie is 15 now, if he went through a quarter... no, a tenth of what I went through, I really don't know how I survived, I honestly don't.""It wasn't the students, it was the teachers," he told Lucy Kennedy on Living with Lucy.
Simon had to learn how to navigate dealing with members of the public who had taken a dislike to Steve McDonald. "I just suddenly thought to myself, when I'm on my death bed am I going to think, 'I wish I worried more?' and it was like an epiphany."