Corrie's Simon Gregson says Steve's stillbirth plot was 'awful' after losing 11 babies

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Simon Gregson said shooting Coronation Street’s stillborn plot was "awful" - as soap bosses did not know he and his wife had lost 11 babies.While they were aware his co-star Kym Marsh had lost a child in real life, the actor said no-one asked him about his own experience.

Soap bosses got Kym’s consent to go ahead with the 2017 storyline in which her character Michelle Connor’s baby Ruairi was stillborn after went into labour prematurely.At the time Kym, 45, said recreating the ordeal was the best way to "honour" the baby she had lost.But Simon, 47, who played the dad, said Corrie bosses were unaware of the "horrific" experience he had been through with wife Emma.

He found it really "annoying" all the onus was "on the woman" and felt compelled to reveal his real life plight.Simon told the BBC’s The Likely Dads podcast: "We lost 11 along the way.

It was horrific."We just kind of got on with it. We were like, it's happened, get on with it."I think the worst thing was when they made it into a storyline.