ITV’s Coronation Street casts Britain’s Got Talent & Eaten By Lions star Jack Carroll

Weatherfield is set to get a new resident as one Britain’s Got Talent and Eaten by Lions star joins the cast of Coronation Street. Comedian Jack Carroll shot to fame at 14 after appearing on the ITV talent show; a decade on he’s making his Corrie debut as Carla Connor’s nephew, Bobby.

Carroll, now 24, is set to appear in the long-running ITV soap after Christmas. Announcing the news on social media platform X - formerly Twitter - he said: “Delighted and honoured to announce I’ll be joining the British cultural institution that is Coronation Street as Bobby, Carla’s nephew. Hopefully he brings some laughter in the vein of some of the shows classic comedy characters.”

ITV described Bobby as a ‘livewire chip off the old block, with the gift of the gab’ and says he’s got ‘an eye for the ladies’. It added: “Bobby runs rings round his Aunty Carla and it soon becomes evident that he plans on sticking around.”

Following his stint on Britain’s Got Talent in 2014, which saw him place runner-up for his popular comedy routines, Carroll completed his first national live tour and gained acting credits in shows’s such as Ministry of Curious Stuff on CBBC, Trollied, and Doctors. He starred as Pete in the feature film Eaten By Lions.

Earlier this year he produced and starred in Mobility - a BBC Three short about three disabled teenagers catching the same school bus every day. Carroll, who has cerebral palsy, is passionate about improving the representation of disability on TV.