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Privacy NoticeActor Bill Fellows, who has starred in Coronation Street for three years as chef Stu Carpenter, says a final goodbye to Weatherfield during the episode on Monday 14 October. After having risked both his relationship with Yasmeen and her Speed Dahl business in his attempt to mentor troubled teen Mason, Stu tells his girlfriend he has decided to leave the cobbles permanently to reconnect with granddaughter Eliza in Germany. As he prepares to leave, Bill, 67, has spoken about his time on Coronation Street, which was actually his second attempt at appearing on the soap. “I auditioned for the role of Roy’s brother, Nina’s dad, before I got the role of Stu,” he reveals. “I wasn’t right for the part but it was for three weeks, so it was fate really because I got this part and stayed three years.”
Stu has worked as a chef at Speed Dahl
“I am so proud to have been in Corrie. It is a massive part of all our lives, especially at my age, 67, it has been around all my life. All my family watched it so it was really exciting to be a bit of history. I was on set recently and I was just looking around at all the photos of everybody and I just thought ‘Wow, I have been a part of this’, the fact that I have worked alongside William Roache and who is a truly lovely man, it has been wonderful.” Bill says he has “no regrets” about leaving the long-running series, saying: “It is the right time to go for me and for Stu. I will look back with fond memories and I wouldn’t rule out coming back in the future. But Stu has evolved, we started off with a homeless guy who was wrongly accused of murder and and then we get to the point three years later where this guy’s got almost a quarter of a million pounds and has cleared his name and made it a life for himself. I’m really pleased with the story, because it’s been fully, fully formed.” Sign up to OK!’s TV newsletter to get updates sent to your inbox for free
In Monday’s episode, Stu tells Yasmeen he is leaving
He also explained why he thinks Stu decides to leave: “Mason’s actions and his family have put Yasmeen in danger. A brick has been thrown through the window and Yasmeen wants Mason out of her house. Stu is angry with Yasmeen and he falls a little bit out of love with her for giving up on Mason. He decides that he should go and live with his granddaughter in Germany. He knows that their relationship has been put through too much of a test. It is a sad decision but they both know it is the right one. As much as Stu wants to help people it can’t be at the cost of other people. You can see them both struggling because they don’t really want to say goodbye.” While Bill has quite a few projects lined up, including appearances in a new BBC sitcom called Smoggie Queens with Mark Benton and a film with Stephen Tompkinson about low level gangsters in Middlesborough, the actor is pleased that Stu hasn’t been killed off, and the door has been left open for a possible return to Weatherfield for the chef in the future. “I would have been fine either way and I did say that to the producer, but it is good to know that Stu is out there somewhere helping people, they said they wanted to leave the door open which is nice.”Story SavedYou can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnCoronation Street
