Colson Smith, who has starred on Coronation Street since he was a child, is opening up on his journey of weight loss in a new documentary.
Bored Of Being The Fat Kid looks into Colson's experiences going through the change in his physique and his relationship with food and running.
The actor has been gracing TV screens as Craig Tinker since 2011, which consolidated his identity as 'the fat kid'. He said: "Growing up - in life, in work, in every kind of situation - I was always 'the fat kid'.
I was ready to kind of change that identity and I was ready to move on from it. "All I've ever known is being the fat kid, and that's just who I am and what I am - how am I going to change that?" The pressures of being in the public eye and being
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