Jack James Ryan may be waving goodbye to the cobbles but it's likely he won't be waving goodbye to the friends he made as he gushed about his co-stars in his exit chat. In scenes aired on the ITV soap on Friday night (January 13), the actor bowed out of the soap after nearly two years as Jacob Hay.
During Jacob Hay's first appearance in Weatherfield back in 2021, Corrie viewers were horrified as he groomed an impressionable Simon Barlow into joining a drugs gang while also tormenting his grieving mum, Leanne Battersby. And it wasn't long before he disappeared off the screen having crossed drug lord Harvey Gaskell, who has recently been revealed as his uncle.
But returned in 2022 and struck up a relationship with Amy Barlow which was initially met with disapproval. But with Amy, played by Elle Mulvaney, standing by him, Jacob managed to turn things around. He bagged a job at Underworld from Carla Barlow and even moved in with Amy at No.1 Coronation Street.
