Alan Halsall has played Tyrone Dobbs on Coronation Street for a staggering 24 years.
The star made his Weatherfield debut in November 1998 as the delinquent son of Jackie Dobbs. At sixteen, he left his mother and her difficult ways behind and trained as an apprentice mechanic under Kevin Webster and 10 years later ended up buying half the business.
Over the years, Corrie fans have seen the character embroiled in some dramatic and heart-rending story-lines. And while he is most well known for playing Tyrone, one of Alan’s early roles was playing Ollie for five episodes in Children’s Ward between 1997 and 1998. The 39-year-old also had roles in Queer as Folk, Heartbeat and The Cops.
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After so much time on the cobbles, Alan is still absolutely loving it. He told the Manchester Evening News : "I don't want to [leave]. I've been there a long, long time. I was talking about that... it's 24 years going on now."
Away from the Salford-based set, Alan married former Coronation Street and current Hollyoaks actress Lucy-Jo Hudson in 2009. They welcomed daughter Sienna-Rae three years later. However, the couple split in March 2016 and divorced in 2018.
"We're so amicable. We get on and we speak every day. He comes round for a brew. We will maintain as mummy and daddy," Lucy-Jo, who starred in the ITV soap as Katy Harris from 2002 to 2005, told Loose Women panelists at the time.
However, things had clearly turned sour by February 2020 after the pair had both moved on when Alan appeared to lash out at his ex and her new man in a scathing Instagram post when Lucy-Jo's partner Lewis Devine referred to Sienna as 'Our Sienna.' Alan has since admitted he doesn't have much communication with his ex anymore apart from to discuss their daughter.
"There's always going to be ups and downs with a blended family," he told OK! Magazine in July 2020 when opening up about co-parenting Sienna. "So long as Sienna comes first in all of it, that's all that matters. Sienna's got her mum and dad, and she's also got Lewis and Tisha. It's just a case that everybody loves her.
Alan is now in a relationship with former Corrie co-star Tisha Merry. The actor has previously revealed his relationship with Tisha developed naturally and started out as friendship.
He told OK! magazine : "I’d really got into hot yoga and someone mentioned that Tisha was going to the same studio so I thought we could go together. We got on so well and after that we spent a lot of time together.
Tisha played waitress Steph Britton in Corrie from 2013 to 2016 and made a brief return to Weatherfield in 2018.
The pair played badminton, enjoyed walks and went for dinner together. They enjoyed nine months of friendship before their relationship developed into romance over a bottle of wine and a game of Scrabble, and Tisha moved into the the six-bedroom home that Alan designed in Worsley.
Tisha has previously given followers a look inside their home on her YouTube channel. The £750,000 five-bedroom home features a playroom for Sienna as well as a glamorous living room with three brushed velvet sofas. Alan also gave his followers another look at the outside of his house when he bought a new car last year - a flash red Mercedes.
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