Coronation Street star Jonathan Howard has been one of the ITV soap’s major stars over the last year, with Carl Webster being at the heart of its biggest plots from the get-go: his affair with Abi, cheating on her with James Bailey, finding out he’s Debbie’s son and manipulating her, to name just a few.
While Carl has mentioned fleeing to Germany multiple times in the show, it looks like Carl is sticking around the foreseeable future to cause even more drama.
However, it looks like Carl could have made his exit by now, as Howard has revealed that the initial plan was for him to be gone by now.
Speaking to The Mirror, the actor said: “Originally, when I joined, it was like ‘OK, I’ll do 12 months.’ But [my daughter has] settled – she goes to school in Manchester – and so I don’t necessarily want to rock the boat right now.
“The universe has brought me back to the north. I’m an hour away from the village that I grew up in. I go home at the weekend and see my sister, my niece and nephew and my old friends, so my daughter is getting to touch in with her English roots.”
Having previously lived in America with his partner Elodie Yung and daughter Minavann, the family now live back in the UK, although Elodie is over in her native France acting in a project.
Howard noted that Minavann is losing her American accent, joking that: “She’s starting to pronounce water with a ‘t’ rather than saying ‘warder’.”
Speaking about how long Carl could be staying around for, the actor stated: “I think we’d be missing out on something for Carl to leave before he’s come to terms with his mum’s dementia diagnosis. I would at least like to stay until we see what happens to Debbie. Then we’ll see what happens after that.”
For now, Corrie is revisiting Carl’s dodgy car dealing storyline at the moment, bringing back Sara Poyzer’s character Fiona Morley for it.
