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Corrie star reveals he's so skint he can't turn his heating on
CORONATION Street star Charlie Lawson has revealed he’s so skint he couldn’t afford to put the heating on this winter. Charlie, who is best known for playing Jim McDonald on the ITV soa…
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CORONATION Street star Charlie Lawson has revealed he's so skint he couldn't afford to put the heating on this winter.
Charlie, who is best known for playing Jim McDonald on the ITV soap, said that 2024 was his worst ever year in the entertainment industry.
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Charlie Lawson revealed he's so skint he can't afford to put the heating onCredit: ITV4
His financial woes come after the closure of his wife Debbie's farm in CheshireCredit: RexHis financial woes come after the closure of his wife Debbie's farm shop in Prestbury, Cheshire, which left them facing legal action over unpaid debts of nearly £50,000.
Speaking on The Nolan Show, Charlie said: "2024 is the most unsuccessful year I've had in 44 years.
"And there are a lot of issues to do with that.
"I've got lots of white hair, I'm 64 and there are less parts around.
READ MORE ON CORONATION STREET"I work for GB News at the moment and I've got to renegotiate that contract next year and my wife Debbie runs a women's refuge.
"I'm in the living room with my shooting gear on because I'm a field sportsman and because I can't have the heat on all day and it's Baltic over here.
"Have you looked at your bills? You have lean times, I mean last year the heat was on all the time in the winter, this year it will not be."
He went on to say: "Debbie is manager of a women's refuge, she has a wage. I have a wage at the moment until January so we're all right but we haven't been abroad this year, we don't eat in The Ivy when we go back to Belfast. You cut your cloth.
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"I live 50ft from a local bar in my village - The Rodney so I don't have to get a taxi there, I can walk there and get a tab.
"There are a lot of people worse off than me.
"We have two incomes coming into the house - they're not huge but we're better off than an awful lot of people."
Coronation Street icon returning after 10 years in Hollywood for co-star's exit storylineDuring the chat, Charlie also claimed that he had been cancelled by the BBC for his views on the trans issues.
Charlie told how he was lined up for a job on the BBC's Celebrity Antiques Road Trip programme but his agent was sent an email by BBC bosses which said they wouldn't be employing him because he was anti-trans.
He went on to say: "It is about a lot of things that didn't matter.
"People in my industry will not admit this because they don't, but it's about your beliefs, it's about your standards, it's about what you speak about on social media.
"That all has an influence on things and I'll tell you this and it's a fact - about 18 months ago I lost a job, a daft job but a job nonetheless -Celebrity Antiques Roadshow because I had joined with Sharron Davies and Kellie-Jay Keen from the Let Women Speak movement which was basically speaking up for women in sport.
"The campaign that was running from various sections of the community, straight women, lesbian women - they were getting things thrown at them in Hyde Park and all the rest - these idiots in balaclavas and all the rest of it.
"And I joined the Let Women Speak movement and I put some tweets out in support of Sharron Davies and all Sharron stands for in women's sports and Kellie-Jay Keen having the guts to speak up for what she believed in.
"And my agent received a letter from the BBC saying we can't use Charlie because he's anti-trans and that's the truth and if they want to deny it I've got the email so there you are.
"That's what they said - I couldn't do Celebrity Antiques Roadshow because I was considered anti-trans.
"I laughed initially when my agent informed me and said 'Are you serious?' And then I got very angry and then I left it alone because I was tempted to take it a bit further but having talked to my wife and friends in the industry and my agent I decided I would just leave it."
The Sun have reached out to BBC for comment.
Last year Charlie blasted Coronation Street in an exclusive interview with The Sun.
He recalled a conversation with Sarah Lancashire, who played Raquel Wolstenhulme in the nineties, at the funeral of former writer John Stevenson, who died aged 86 in September 2023.
READ MORE SUN STORIESCharlie said: "I fear that Corrie might not be here in ten years’ time. Sarah and I were talking. We both agreed John wouldn’t recognise the show.
“We felt it was a completely different animal, so fundamentally different from our day — and the viewing figures have plummeted."
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Charlie claimed the BBC cancelled his TV appearance for his views on the trans issuesCredit: Rex4
The actor is best known for playing Jim McDonald on the ITV soapCredit: ITV
