Coronation Street actor Reece Dinsdale has admitted that he only joined the cast of the ITV soap because of the acting skills of co-star Michelle Keegan.

Dinsdale plays Joe McIntyre on the soap, father of Keegan’s character Tina.

“The reason I’m in the show is chiefly down to Michelle,” he told The Sun. “I was watching it one night and turned to my wife and said, ‘That girl playing Tina is unbelievable. She’s brilliant.’

“The next day my agent rang and said, ‘You don’t fancy playing Tina’s dad in Coronation Street do you?’ If you go into a soap you want to be working with good people. I’ve not been disappointed.”