Jack P. Shepherd reckons he’s Coronation Street’s answer to Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible. His character David Platt has gone from a sweet, rabbit-loving child to the Street’s most high-octane character – who along the way has been banged up, driven into a canal by his killer stepdad and tried to blow up his own family.
In last week’s Talk TV, we revealed how David had to run for his life after being chased by a gang for jumping up and down on a drug dealer’s car.
This week, we caught up with Jack, who told how just like Tom Cruise, he does all his stunts himself. The 32-year-old told how he shares Tom’s taste for danger and likes to think he is Weatherfield’s answer to Mission Impossible’s Ethan Hunt. “That’s what I’m like, yeah,” he
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