Bill Tarmey: 'I've got nowhere to go'

Bill Tarmey has admitted that he is finding it strange not to have to film scenes for Coronation Street.

The Jack Duckworth actor shot his final episode recently and celebrated his exit with the cast and crew at a bash last week.

"At the moment I'm cabbaged," he told the Daily Star. "My head's all over the place. All of a sudden I've got nowhere to go. I'm still up at 5.30am and work is still going around my head but I don't have to do the scenes."

He described his "sweet" final on-screen moments with Alan Halsall (Tyrone Dobbs).

"It was a sweet little scene and I was trying my best not to cry," he confessed. "It's hard when you are dead! It was breaking my heart with Alan next to me and I know it was breaking his heart in the scene for real."

His former on-screen wife Liz Dawn attended the party and watched a video montage of his three decades in the show.

"When they played the compilation - when they were going through all the old clips - well, at that stage I just burst into tears. Ali broke down and Liz had a sniffle as well. It was just like This Is Your Life," he said.

However, Tarmey admitted that there is one thing he will not miss about the Weatherfield soap.

"I won't miss all the daft long scenes - the long ones written like Gideon's Bible!" he said.