Coronation Street icon Charles Dale has announced he has split from his wife and is going through a divorce.
The actor, who played Dennis Stringer on the ITV soap and Big Mac on Casualty, shared the sad news on Twitter alongside a picture of himself on a rooftop garden in Tenby, Wales which overlooked the sea.
He wrote: "So, 60 today (WTF), unemployed, skint, going through a divorce (fine but tricky), but thanks to the generosity of my family and friends, feeling not too shoddy.
