Coronation Street's Jack P Shepherd reveals that he ruined chance at Hollywood success

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Jack P Shepherd is famed for playing menacing David Platt on Coronation Street - a role he bagged at the age of 12. And now the soap sensation, 33, has revealed that he missed out on a chance of Hollywood success as a youngster due to flopping during an audition for the mega movie hit of Billy Elliot - which was released in 2000, the same year he made his first appearance on the cobbles.

The famous part was won by Jamie Bell - who picked up a BAFTA for the movie - and he has gone on to have a hugely successful career in Tinseltown.

Proving that Jack still thinks about how he "f***ed up" the casting call, he shared that he was "gutted" when the film hit cinemas and the attention it got at the Academy Awards during a recent episode of his