Former Coronation Street actor Samuel Robertson has revealed that before her left the show in 2007, producers had been planning a bisexual storyline for his character.

Samuel played Weatherfield’s Adam Barlow and said that in the end the storyline was scrapped as it followed too hot on the heels of Todd Grimshaw’s (Bruno Langley) sexual identity struggle.

Robertson told the Daily Record: “At one point they were going to make Adam bisexual, and I was bang up for that. Playing a guy who was proper bisexual, into guys and girls and as cool as a cucumber with it.

“It would have been great, I was excited about it at the time. But I think they decided it came too soon after Bruno Langley’s gay storyline.”

Robertson has just joined the cast of the BBC’s Scottish soap River City, playing of art history student Innes Maitland.

“I assumed River City had the same impact in Glasgow as Corrie does in Manchester, but then I thought that was a bit presumptuous because Corrie really is massive and River City is comparatively quite small,” he explained.

“So I have no idea what it’s going to be like. I don’t think it’s going to be anything like Corrie.”

Robertson will make his first appearance in River City next week.