Coronation Street star opens up on ’emotional’ food bingeing struggles
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Coronation Street actor Colson Smith opened up about his struggle with food bingeing. The Craig Tinker actor took to TikTok to answer a question from one of his followers, who wanted to know what had been the turning point in him deciding to get fit.
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‘I had to. I was on dodgy grounds,’ the 26-year-old said. ‘I didn’t realise how big I was, and I don’t think you do. But I was like 24 stone before Covid. I was so unhealthy. ‘I had this relationship with food where I would do this restrictive eating cycle. I would eat s*** loads of food and hate myself for it so I would then punish myself by not eating.
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‘Then I would get so hungry and emotional about how I hadn’t eaten that I would then go and binge again.’. He explained how this cycle lasted ‘for the best part of a year’, until he saw the opportunity for an ‘important’ Coronation Street storyline.
‘I had a thought that there might be a way we could play a story with Craig where he had an eating disorder with his OCD. ‘Obviously, slightly close to home, but I thought it would make for a really good story, and I think it’s important that stuff like that is told on TV.’.
