Coronation Street's Colson Smith 'hated himself' during height of weight woes as he confirms romance

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Coronation Street star Colson Smith has admitted to 'hating himself' before his weight loss. The actor documented his incredible weight loss in his own YouTube film 'Bored Of Being The Fat Kid’, which was released on YouTube in 2021.

after finding a love of running during lockdown. Colson, who has never revealed the amount of weight he has lost but it is reported to be 10 stone, would drink around five pints of fizzy drinks a day before his fitness overhaul.

The soap star, who is known for playing PC Craig Tinker in ITV's Corrie, has previously said he weighed 140kg before he discovered a love for running, with him now regularly documenting his runs and gym visits on social media, including completing a half marathon back in October in just over an hour and a half in Belgium. READ MORE: Coronation Street first look spoilers as Roy Cropper targeted after wrongful murder arrest READ MORE: Read more of our Coronation Street stories here Now, in the Celebrity Big Brother house, after he signed up to the rebooted reality show alongside a string of familiar famous faces, Colson opened up to a couple of his housemates how he'd eat "three KFC meals a day" before changing his habits.

During a candid chat with Sharon Osbourne, Louis Walsh and David Potts, Colson said: "I lost weight when I was 18 through quite a strict diet and then, what I found was that I was gaining weight and then I’d try and diet again, the way I thought I needed to diet." "I wouldn’t eat for a day and a half.