Simon Gregson talks heartache at Corrie stillbirth plot after 'losing 11 babies' with wife

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Coronation Street after losing “11 babies” with his wife Emma Gleave. While soap bosses 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.

Coronation Street got Kym’s consent to go ahead with the 2017 storyline in which her character Michelle Connor’s baby Ruairi was stillborn after going into labour prematurely.At the time Kym, 45, said recreating the ordeal was the best way to "honour" the baby she had lost in her own life.But Simon, who played the dad, said Corrie bosses were unaware of the "horrific" experience he had been through with his 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.They didn't know what had happened with me."It was with Kym and Kym had lost a child.So of course, you know, they asked her whether she would do the storyline and of course, she didn't want to see - it's a prosthetic baby and it's amazing and it was dressed exactly the same as he was, you know, which I think is what she requested because she wanted the emotions to be real."But it was like this is a one-take time.