Kate Ford: Coronation Street's Tracy Barlow star hits out at writer after SHOCK reveal

Coronation Street actress Kate Ford, 42, confronted soap writer Daran Little, 53, about his reasons behind the tweets in view of her 135,000 followers.

Daran shared a series of tweets about his plans to kill off some characters with his 20,000 followers.

He wrote: “Things soap writers do on boring train journeys, No.1 make a list of all the people you’ve killed off.

“No.2 make a list of all the people you want to kill off. No.3 make a list of all the people you wished you had killed off.”

Kate responded to the tweet, simply writing: “Oh.”

Daran then followed up his tweet writing: “Chatted to an actor once, said I’d forgotten how he’d left a particular show. His grim reply: ‘You killed me off’. Oh yes.”

He added: “The actor in question had asked to leave. Sorry for offending anyone. Guess I shouldn’t tweet when jet lagged and on meds.”

Seemingly taken aback by his tweet, Kate added: “Why are you tweeting this stuff Darren….???? This is peoples careers.”(sic)

Kate then went on to retweet a tweet which praised “phenomenal actors” within current soaps.

The tweet added: “Just because some of them make what they do look effortless doesn’t mean it is. Don’t be fooled… it’s hard work and even harder to do well.”

Kate’s co-star Melanie Hill, 57, also took offence to Daran’s tweet, in what she described as an “upsetting comment”.

In a now-deleted tweet, she commented: “As an actor in a Soap, I am quite shocked by this flippant/arrogant and quite frankly upsetting comment.

“Who the actual f**k made you God. We are all trying to do our jobs day after day… granted.. yes our lives are in your hands but do you have to be so f***ing MEAN spirited.”

Former cobbles star Matthew Marsden, 46 – who played Chris Collins – said he had “no problem” with Daran’s tweet.

He wrote: “I have absolutely no problem with this tweet. Most actors know that we are in an unpredictable business, where we are lucky to be working at all.

“Soaps are one of the few acting jobs where you have some sort of job security, but you are never bigger than the show.”

He added: ”It is often not up to the writers anyway.

“There are all kinds of reasons why characters get killed off, whether it be for a dramatic storyline, that the actor is a nightmare to work with or they want more money.

“That’s the nature of the job.”

Coronation Street continues tonight at 7.30pm and 8.30pm on ITV.

source: express.co.uk