Coronation Street star Sam Retford lands next TV role
Sam Retford has landed his next TV role after leaving Coronation Street.
Retford played medical student Curtis Delamere in the ITV soap in 2021. The character was last seen fleeing Weatherfield, after he broke his fiancée Emma Brooker's heart.
It's been confirmed that Sam is due to appear in the fourth series of Channel 5's All Creatures Great and Small as FO Woodham. Filming is currently taking place on location in Yorkshire.
Also joining the cast of the new series, based on the James Herriot books, are Shetland's Neve McIntosh as a bookkeeper named Miss Harbottle, and Slow Horses' James Anthony-Rose as eager new vet student Richard Carmody.
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Sam played Curtis in 60 episodes of Corrie. As their relationship progressed, he had told Emma that he was living with a serious heart condition, and shared his ambitions to one day qualify as a consultant cardiologist.
However, Emma later learned that he had been feigning his illness, and decided to end their relationship.
It was revealed that Curtis had a condition called Factitious Disorder, a mental state which causes people to lie to others and pretend they are ill, and he ultimately left Weatherfield to seek further help managing the condition.
Sam's previously appeared as Cory Wilson in Channel 4's Ackley Bridge, and other credits include Death in Paradise and The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family.
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However, his rapid rise to fame meant that sadly, Sam revealed he'd discovered people had been impersonating him online shortly after he first started appearing in Coronation Street.
While he still has an Instagram presence, he took the decision to delete both his Facebook and Twitter accounts upon learning of the impostors.
"It's a place for me to post pictures of me with trees. I got rid of Facebook and Twitter," he explained.
"It's negative and takes a very strong-minded person to confront that every day. I had incidents of people organising to meet up with a fake me – that could be dangerous."
Coronation Street airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7.30pm and 8.30pm.
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