Coronation Street legend Adam Rickitt lands role in another soap

Coronation Street and Hollyoaks star Adam Rickitt has been cast in BBC One’s Doctors.

The actor, best known for playing Nick Tilsley from 1997 to 1999 and then 2002 to 2004, will join the likes of Wendi Peters and Elizabeth Dermot Walsh in the daytime soap, which is currently off-screen for a summer break.

‘Adam was amongst the best soap actors in the country so it was only a matter of time before he landed a new role’, a source told The Sun.

‘He’s really excited to get started on Doctors and bosses can’t wait to see how viewers react to him. Adam has spent a lot of time working on his bar but is in a position to get back to acting now.’

Adam runs a micro-bar in Cheshire with his wife, Katy Rickitt, who is often seen reporting on ITV’s Good Morning Britain.

After portraying Nick in Coronation Street, Adam spent time developing a music career.

He then returned to the soap world in 2017, portraying the role of Kyle Kelly in Hollyoaks.

In 2020, Kyle ended his life after struggling with depression.

Speaking about the storyline at the time, Adam told us: ‘If you were to ask someone what depression looks like, they would automatically think about Darren’s journey. They become lethargic and they get upset and cry a lot and for a lot of cases that is true.’

‘But in many cases you have someone like Kyle – this has been going on his entire life. People who are extrovert, always putting on a show, always smiling – they’re often the ones that are crying the most inside.’

‘Half of the population has been impacted by mental health at one point of their lives. We don’t blame people for being weak when they have cancer – so why do we do it with mental health?

‘There’s still a massive misconception about how they manifest. People have drug addictions, alcohol addictions, sex addictions, eating disorders – there’s a misconception around it that either you’re weak if it’s drugs, you’re vain if it’s an eating disorder, you’re kinky if it’s a sex addiction.

‘All of these manifestations – they’re not the problem, they’re the diversionary result of people being unable to confront and recognise their mental state of mind. It defers from the rest of the noise out there – this becomes the eye of their storm, a way of feeling like they have some sort of control.’

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