How old is david platt in real life

This caused him to be disowned by his entire family, especially his mother Gail, who later threw him out of the house. Audrey, despite also being furious with her grandson, refused to see David thrown out on the streets and took him in with the intention of drilling some discipline into him.

When David learned from Sarah that he wouldn't be invited to her wedding to Jason, he vowed that there wouldn't be a wedding. He later loosened the bolts of the scaffolding at the Builder's Yard, which caused Jason to fall and injure himself, although he was later discharged from hospital. On the day of the wedding, David left a suicide note for Gail, however unknown to him, Sarah found it first and ripped it up, knowing that he was lying.

When he saw everyone leaving for the church, David was furious, believing that Gail had seen the note yet had chosen to ignore it. He then took his car and went down to the same canal where Richard tried to kill them four years earlier. After leaving a message on Gail's phone telling her about him killing himself, he played the song "You and Me" the same song Richard played when trying to kill them , and then drove his car into the water, which was noticed by a passer-by.

However, he survived and managed to escape, but caused panic for his mother Gail and angered Sarah after ruining her wedding. He later turned up unharmed, but drenched, at the house much to the relief of his mother. He later confronted Sarah and revealed that he never intended to kill himself, only to ruin her wedding, but Gail still believed it was a suicide attempt. David couldn't be happier, as not only did he have Gail back on his side; but he had also caused a rift between her and Sarah as she had thrown away his suicide note.

Sometime later, David was offered a job in Milan by his uncle Stephen Reid. This angered Sarah because of everything David had done, and she planted Ecstasy on him to make it look like he had been doing drugs. When the pills were found, David naturally protested his innocence however no one believed him and Stephen withdrew the job offer, instead giving it to Sarah. However, she left for Italy on her own with daughter Bethany after telling Jason about planting the drugs, who revealed everything to Gail and David.

Gail apologised to David for not believing him. In January , David began dating Tina McIntyre after she accidentally knocked coffee over him following an argument with Gail at the medical centre. They quickly started sleeping with each other, which shocked Gail, although she and Tina became close. In March , when Tina found out she was pregnant, she consulted Gail about it, who supported her and was there for Tina when she went to abort David's baby. When David found out about this and the fact that Gail knew about it, he got into a furious argument with her and ended up pushing his mother down the stairs.

Desperate to avoid prison, David persuaded Tina to give him an alibi. She agreed but dumped him. Heartbroken, David realised the misery he was piling on his family and set about smashing the Street's windows with a pole as well as assaulting Ken Barlow and a policewoman, getting himself arrested. In court, David was sent down for four months which David was happy about, knowing he needed to pay for his previous actions.

While in Larchfield Young Offenders Institute , he struck up a friendship with his cellmate, Graeme Proctor who was in for burning down his gran's house. After being released from young offenders, David began to pull himself together after resuming his relationship with Tina. He began working with her father Joe who was a kitchen fitter.

In November they fitted a kitchen for the Windass family , but they refused to pay for it. David later went round and smashed up their kitchen.

This caused them to dispatch Gary and Len Windass to tear up Gail's kitchen in revenge. In December , the family conveniently moved next door to 6 Coronation Street after the Mortons had moved out.

Anna Windass didn't want further arguing and met up with David and family in the Rovers to straighten things out, however, he refused to shake hands with son Gary.

The Windass family later joined the Platts for Christmas as a peace offering, however, David got fed up with Gary flirting and bothering Tina and kicked off at him. This led to Joe angrily flying off the handle and throwing them out, which shocked everyone. In January , Gary continued to bother and wind up David, especially when he discovered his past misdeeds. This later led to David hitting Gary which sparked a fight leading to David being badly beaten up. Gary was arrested, and David asked Tina to lie to the police that Gary threw the first punch, with the hope of him being locked up.

However during the trial - with persuasion from Joe - Tina told the court the truth and Gary was released with a caution. Tina later dumped David after being fed up with lying for him and his trouble. David began to take a dislike to Joe and was scared Tina would end up with Gary. In June , David noticed Gary was having trouble finding work and offered to rob a house with him. David picked grandmother Audrey's house - 5 Grasmere Drive - as Gary was unaware she lived there and he planned to set Gary up for robbery.

David emptied the property of photographs and returned to No. However, David's grandfather Ted Page arrived to house-sit, and was knocked over by Gary trying to escape and later ended up in hospital due to a heart attack. Gary was sentenced to two months in prison, and even though the Platts discovered David had set the whole thing up, they didn't bother handing him over to the police. During the summer, David began tormenting Joe over his painkiller addiction and blackmailed him to convince Tina to take him back, however, Tina was no longer interested.

The torment soon ended as Joe's addiction was revealed when he attempted to rob the medical centre. In February , shortly after Gail's wedding to Joe, she summoned David up to the Lake District when Joe had gone "missing" the night before and he helped her get his boat back to Coronation Street.

However, Joe had actually gone to fake his death for life insurance when being bothered by a loan shark called Rick Neelan but unknown to Gail and everyone, he'd drowned. A couple of weeks later, his body was discovered bringing much shock to the family. Gail was imprisoned awaiting trial after being accused of murdering Joe. Over the next few months, David began to try and prove Gail's innocence and travelled up to the Lake District with Graeme to get answers but were later warned off by the police for trying to tamper with witnesses.

Gail was eventually found not guilty regardless, although her cellmate Tracy Barlow tried to lie to the courts that Gail made a confession but they saw through her.

Gail was released and reunited with David and the family. While driving the car, David accidentally hit Graeme — who was left severely injured and taken to hospital. Tina informed the police that David had ran Graeme over on purpose as a result of their argument and he was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

While David waited to go up against the jury in court he collapsed and was taken to hospital. In November , David was diagnosed with epilepsy and the court case was dropped. Later that year, in December , David became a suspect in another attempted murder case after Tracy Barlow was discovered unconscious in the back yard of No.

The attacker was later revealed to be Claire Peacock who had lashed out after Tracy had insulted her recently deceased husband Ashley Peacock.

Refusing to let Max go without a fight, Becky and her husband Steve prepared to go to war with David and Kylie — which is what Kylie had been trying to avoid as, unbeknown to David, she had actually sold her son to the pair the year before which had paid for her holiday to Tenerife. David insisted that Becky and Steve weren't fit to look after Max and was able to prove this when he saved the boy from being run over. Eventually, Kylie was interviewed by Social Services and lied to them about how Steve and Becky came to be in charge of Max.

Steve later exposed the truth that Kylie had sold Max to the McDonalds , news which horrified David who wished that Kylie had told him. David decided to ignore the fact that Kylie had sold her son and the pair continued to fight for him.

When the pair got married and left for China , David and Graeme bid each other farewell. Despite Gail's misgivings, David and Kylie got married in April and Gail started to slowly warm towards her new daughter-in-law.

With her help, they convinced Social Services they could provide for Max who was quickly removed from Becky's care once the deal with Kylie was revealed to them with a stable home and were awarded custody and David became a father figure towards Max.

All went well for David and Kylie until the lead-up to Christmas , when David decided that it was time for him and Kylie to have a baby of their own. Kylie wasn't interested in having another child at that time, wishing to focus on her new job at Nick's Bistro.

As a result, the two had bitter rows and David's drunken cruel words about her former stripper career drove her into bed with David's brother Nick on Christmas night.

Kylie decided to have an abortion to end the issue there and then, but David found the pregnancy test in the bin and rushed to the clinic to stop her. Under pressure from David's pleading, she reluctantly decided to go ahead with the pregnancy despite the uncertainty of the baby's paternity. As the months passed, David started working more and more in order to help provide for his growing family as well as give Kylie a break and was delighted to find out she was expecting a baby girl.

However the long hours took their toll and, while taking Max and Joseph Brown to the park, his epilepsy flared up and he had a fit.

However, as he realised what was about to happen and had his mobile phone out to call for help, Max phoned Nick, and David was taken to hospital where he quickly recovered. In June , David began to suspect that Gail and Kylie were keeping a secret from him, not knowing they were booking a surprise break for him and his wife.

Coming down the stairs one afternoon, he overheard the two discussing what happened and learned everything about Nick and Kylie. Devastated, David briefly considered suicide and stood near the edge of a Cheshire hillside until Max rang him, snapping David out of it.

He chose to direct his rage at Nick, not blaming Kylie for what happened, deciding to play a long game and set about trying to ruin his life. David's attacks included smashing up Nick's flat and watering down the spirits at Nick's Bistro, leading to a police investigation. David's games to ruin Nick's life came to an end when Nick twigged that David was behind the hate campaign. In August , Nick lured David away from Coronation Street making up a story they were going to sample some drinks.

Nick then told David he was aware of him leading the hate campaign and confessed that he indeed had a one-night-stand with Kylie. Nick offered to drive them back to Coronation Street and he would confess to the affair if David confessed to trying to ruin Nick's life. David was worried about this as he feared Kylie would leave him if she found out the truth. David grabbed the steering wheel and undid Nick's seatbelt. After a struggle, the car came to a stop, and a lorry plunged into it.

David survived with a few scratches, but Nick ended up in a coma. On 26th August , Kylie gave birth and they decided to name the baby Lily. When Nick began to show signs of waking up but might be brain damaged, David hoped to use this as an excuse to make out Nick was confused if he tried to tell anyone about David crashing the van. Nick however still remembered the accident clearly and blackmailed David into getting a test to prove which of them was Lily's biological father. David was delighted when the results proved that he was indeed the child's father.

Although crushed, Nick accepted it. Kylie realised that David knew about her infidelity when she discovered the document confirming David's paternity hidden in a DVD case, and quizzed Nick over the matter.

This lead to Nick confessing that David was indirectly responsible for the crash. During Lily's christening, Kylie told the shocked family about David's actions from the previous months. David was thrown out of No. David was determined to get his family back and noticed Kylie was struggling with looking after two children.

She was developing a drinking problem which caused her to neglect Max and Lily, which David supported her through. David fully reconciled with Kylie after Christmas and returned home. In , Max began showing signs of hyperactivity.

The family were invited to visit Becky in Barbados but they returned with David annoyed as Max's out of control behaviour had ruined the trip.

Taking Max to the doctors, they discovered that he was possibly suffering from ADHD, which was later confirmed and Max was put on medication. Kylie began to struggle with everyday problems and due to stress, began taking Max's ADHD pills but when David caught her, she swore it was just a one-off and David forgave her on the condition that she would never do anything like that again.

Unbeknown to David, Kylie had tracked down her ex-boyfriend Max's biological father Callum Logan to get drugs in order to help her to calm down and to try and find out more about Max's ADHD.

This carried on for a while but when Kylie tried to give up, Callum wouldn't leave her alone and repeatedly followed her around, offering them to her. Callum then revealed he was Max's dad. David kicked Kylie out of the house but later regretted his decision and went in search of for her in Callum's flat where he received a firm threat from Callum.

Callum told him she had spent two nights at his flat but had since disappeared. Throughout January and February , Callum started spending time with Max, creating a father-son bond which outraged David.

Callum also started to toy with David and his family, tricking them into reporting an empty box to the police and trying to persuade David to deliver cocaine for him, which he refused to do. He even started threatening Gail. When Max learned that Callum was his biological dad he wanted to know more and became rebellious when David tried to keep Callum away.

David conceded and started letting Max see Callum. After speaking to his solicitor, Callum started taking David to court over rights to see Max. In March , Sarah and the now-teenage Bethany returned home after seven years in Milan. This caused further problems for David when Sarah started a relationship with Callum after ignoring her family's warnings about him.

In frustration, David blackmailed Andy Carver into planting drugs in Callum's car. When this plan failed, David was held hostage by Callum and two of his cronies Gemma Winter and Macca , but was released after narrowly avoiding a beating. David later ran away to Liverpool with Max and Lily, planning on going abroad, but before he had the chance, Max rang Callum with the mobile phone he'd given him and asked him to pick him up.

A few weeks later, David had a custody hearing, which went badly as Callum had learned of David's troubled criminal past. In June , Kylie returned home after a six-month absence and insisted she was off the drugs for good. She was horrified to see Max spending time with Callum and although David was cold to her for abandoning her family, he agreed to team up with her in order to help him keep his rights to Max. After a few weeks, David forgave Kylie and they got back together.

Sarah eventually broke up with Callum, but only after she learned that Callum had been keeping a gun in Max's bedroom at his flat, which Max had discovered and thought was a toy. Although David was horrified at what could have happened to Max, he saw this as the end of Callum. However, Callum was one step ahead and removed all traces of the gun before the police could search his flat.

Callum was granted partial custody of Max but soon afterwards, beat up Jason Grimshaw with some of his thugs which was witnessed by Max. Max became terrified of his father and refused to see him, later telling Callum he hated him and that David was a better dad. The family refused so Callum sent his thugs round to threaten Audrey and wreck No. In September , Sarah tricked Callum into going to No.

She was actually trying to record him confessing to his crimes, but when Callum found out what she was up to, he attacked her in a rage. Kylie arrived just in time and bludgeoned Callum over the head with a wrench, killing him.

David was summoned to help with the situation. He planned on dumping Callum's body in the canal, but when Callum's car was keyed and stolen by Tony Stewart with Todd Grimshaw tagging along; David was forced to temporarily hide Callum's corpse in a manhole in the garage; which was in the process of being renovated. Before the body could be removed, the manhole was filled in with concrete and the garage later converted into a "granny annex" for Gail.

Kylie and Sarah struggled with keeping Callum's death a secret and David was forced to hold it all together. Kylie was disturbed by David's nonchalance and disgusted when he threatened Sarah to keep her quiet. In December , when Sarah was hit by a car sustaining minor injuries, Kylie accused David of pushing her in front of the vehicle.

David told her their marriage was over, as it was clear she thought he was a psychopath, but they reconciled on Christmas Day. In May , Tyrone Dobbs crashed a pickup truck into the annex at No. The concrete over the manhole was destroyed, exposing Callum's body.

A murder investigation began and David tried to pin the crime on Jason to help protect his family. Todd Grimshaw wanted to protect Sarah from prison so claimed that Jason's recently deceased father Tony had confessed to the murder before his death.

David went along with it and a forensic investigation confirmed Tony was the murderer, as the murder weapon had belonged to Tony. In July , Kylie persuaded David to move to Barbados with the family to escape Callum's presence for good.

A few days later, shortly before they were due to leave, Callum's former best friend Gemma who had turned over a new leaf was being attacked by Clayton Hibbs , the brother of Callum's friend Macca. Kylie ran over to help Gemma but was stabbed in the chest by Clayton. David arrived at the scene and promised her everything would be fine and they would still be going to Barbados.

However, Kylie died in his arms before the ambulance could arrive. David became obsessed with revenge for Kylie's death. When he learned that Clayton could have a light sentence because he was only fifteen years old, David started plotting against him and Macca. He put up posters around Manchester identifying Clayton as Kylie's murderer and tried to kill Macca who had been hospitalised after being attacked by a neighbour.

In October , David planned to kill Clayton on the day of his trial by driving a petrol-doused car into the police van Clayton would be in, thus causing an explosion that would kill them both. Gail, Nick and Sarah tried to stop David going through with his plan by locking him in the cellar of the Bistro until the trial was over. However, David was able to escape, by tricking Gail into thinking that he committed suicide. David then doused his car in petrol and drove away.

As he was driving away, David spotted Lily in the middle of the road as she'd wandered away from Fiz Stape , and swerved to avoid hitting her. He ended in crashing into a skip, causing the car to flip over and land on top of Lily and Gary - who had attempted to get Lily to safety.

After being pulled from the car, David helped the other residents lift the vehicle to free Lily and Gary. As soon as the car was placed back down to the ground, a spark ignited and caused the car to catch fire. As everyone ran to safety, Anna became engulfed in flames when a fireball shot out of the car and struck her.

In , David began to move on from Kylie's death and was able to start the process of sorting his life out. David also began growing close to Shona Ramsey , a new resident who moved in at 11 Coronation Street during the Christmas period, blissfully unaware that she was the mother of Kylie's murderer, Clayton.

Gail, who'd discovered the alarming truth about Shona, was fearful of the relationship progressing and after walking in on David attempting to drunkenly kiss Shona she found enough money to bribe Shona into leaving the street. Whilst at first interested in the offer, believing that it would be best for everyone if she left, Shona was later persuaded to stay by her friends - much to the delight of David and horror of Gail.

In February , David signed up to participate in a charity boxing match, which was being held in memory of mechanic Luke Britton , who was murdered the month before.

The match was being held by Luke's replacement at Webster's Autocentre , Josh Tucker , who David started to establish a friendship with. In March , David was told by GP Ali Neeson that it would be best if he did not participate in the boxing match, as it held a high chance of triggering an epileptic episode.

Nonetheless, David remained determined to fight, and so he was invited by Josh to attend private training lessons with him. The pair continued to spend time together, much to Shona's annoyance, as nowadays either she or Gail was left to look after the children. David and Josh went to a nightclub for a few drinks. Unbeknown to David, Josh spiked David's drink with high doses of the psychoactive drug GHB, enough to cause unconsciousness, while he only spiked his own drink with a small dose, enough to induce a feeling of ecstasy.

Once the effects of the drug began to kick in, Josh escorted David to his flat, and proceeded to drag David to his bedroom and rape him as he fell unconscious. David woke up naked in Josh's bed the next morning and, realising what had occurred, immediately made his way home, where Shona and Gail hassled him for staying out all night, and took a shower to cleanse himself. When Josh visited the Platt household later in the day to drop off a kale smoothie, David, upon catching sight of his attacker, ran into the garden and vomited.

Returning, David was repulsed as Josh frankly admitted he had spiked their drinks, although insisted what had happened was consensual, despite evidence to the contrary. Later on. David feigned cramp, although the real reason for his flinching was because he was still suffering trauma from what Josh had done to him.

David decided to stay at Martin's house. Martin, who was in the process of emigrating to New Zealand at the time, tried to press David as to what was going on in his head, but he couldn't get through to his son.

David later decided that he and the children should move to New Zealand alongside Martin and his family, which was likely a reaction to his ordeal, although arguments soon broke out with Shona over the decision, and David furiously told her that she didn't have to come with them. Martin paid a visit to No. David reacted badly to Martin's advice, even lashing out at little Lily, who insisted she didn't want to move away. Max was also against the move, but David was in no mood to listen to either of his children.

By this point, all started to suspect something was seriously amiss as David also insisted he was no longer friends with Josh, without providing a reasonable explanation. David eventually made up with Martin as he departed once more, and he was also sickened when he confronted Josh, who told his victim that he wasn't going anywhere. David went ahead with the boxing match, participating against Gary but after Josh taunted him, David took his built-up anger out on Gary and ended up putting him in hospital, resulting in his arrest.

David continued to be tormented by the rape and had suicidal thoughts. While his family and friends picked up on his attitude, nobody knew the real reason behind it and Gary suspected that his violence was the result of PTSD over the death of Kylie. After the suicide of Aidan Connor , David told Shona Ramsey that Josh raped him and revealed how close he had come to doing something similar.

Here's the lowdown on the actor who won a British Soap Award for his male rape storyline In October, , Jack revealed he had underwent a hair transplant procedure with the help of Crown Clinic.

In a heartfelt post on Instagram, the actor revealed he had considered quitting his acting career due to his drastic hair loss while showing off his results in a before and after photo. To the point where I considered giving up acting and not being in the public eye. Thank you so much asimshahmalak and everyone at Crown Clinic hairtransplant fuetransplant. The Sun revealed how soap bosses weren't happy with Jack's sponsored post as stars of shows such as Corrie are strictly prohibited from taking part in paid advertising work.

Insiders familiar with the situation revealed: "Jack got a real dressing down and was told not to repeat his behaviour. It was a serious breach.