“I’m really Excited to be BACK” – Colson Smith sends Corrie fans into meltdown: Was Craig’s D3ath just a sh0cking twist secretly planned by producers?

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Colson Smith left his role as PC Craig Tinker on Coronation Street when his alter-ego was brutally killed off earlier this year, but he has now landed a new TV role. The former soap star, 26, was seen on Monday’s This Morning where he appeared live from Weymouth to host an item on the best sand castles in the UK.

Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard introduced viewers to the segment, and an excited Colson began to deliver a piece to camera.

Despite being known for starring on the Manchester-based soap, Colson revealed to viewers that he was actually born in Dorset.

Joking that the some fans may have been “fooled” by is Northern accent, he explained that his grandparents live just minutes from where he was presenting.

Standing in front of a massive sand sculpture, Colson was joined by master and expert Mark Anderson and the pair chatted as they made their way through Sandworld.

Mark noted that the sculptures behind them can take anywhere up to a “couple of months” to produce, and Colson set to work building his own castle.

Colson Smith’s character Craig Tinker was killed off Coronation Street earlier this year(Image: ITV/Danielle Baguley)

Getting his hands dirty, the former Big Brother star joked that a new job offer could be on the table and then took viewers round the famous characters on display at the tourist destination.

The attraction already has a host of Disney favourites on display, but Colson left hosts Cat and Ben shocked with the revelation that they have been constructed in sand and seated on the famous ITV sofa.

While Ben declared the construction was “amazing”, Cat attempted to recreate her sandy alter-ego’s pout. Experts revealed that the sculpture had taken over a week to produce, and Colson confirmed to viewers that the pair will be on display all summer.

Colson first appeared on Coronation Street in 2011, when he was introduced as the son of Beth Tinker (Lisa George) and she took him along to an ill-fated date with Steve McDonald (Simon Gregson.)

Over the years, he featured in a number of storylines that saw him battle OCD and then have an on/off romance with Faye Windass (Ellie Leach) before he ultimately qualified as a police office.

But things ended in tragedy for Craig when he was murdered by Mick Michaelis (Joe Layton), and Colson recently teased that new things were on the horizon for his career..

While he didn’t specify what it was or whether it was TV or something else, he did confirm he was already working on something with other big plans ahead. He spilled: “There are irons in the fire, but I will do the typical showbizzy thing of just teasing.

“Everyone always thinks there’s nothing going on, but there actually is. So you know, I’ve got stuff going on. I’m excited. I’m going through the process still of winding down from having been somewhere for 14 years, but I’m excited to see what’s next, and hopefully I can find somewhere to go to work and have fun.”