Considering he’s interviewed the likes of Oliver Reed and Rod Hull and Emu, you’d think that nothing would shock Michael Parkinson.
But the TV legend has launched into a scathing attack on Coronation Street over its brutal scenes involving Pat Phelan’s kidnap plot.
Parky, 82, told the Radio Times that the storyline was more suited to a “horror channel”, and made him “recoil”.
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Corrie viewers were gripped and repulsed in equal measures as Phelan abducted Andy Carver and Vinny Ashford.
The deranged killer promised Andy that he’d set him free if he shot Vinny dead. But after the terrified waiter had done the dirty deed, Phelan murdered him too.
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