00:00in real life, Christopher Quentyn. How are ya? Nice one. Welcome to the show. I tell ya,
00:03this is a... How does it go? What's the woo again? Woo, woo, woo!
00:14Don't encourage them. This is a happening show. This is a very cool show, I like it.
00:19How do you actually feel now about your decision to quit Coronation Street? How do I feel right
00:23now? Um, no regrets. I miss it, miss the money. Earning a lot of money now. I miss that.
00:31Miss the gang, miss Granada. Granada's a great company to work for. Miss the security, but
00:37I'm having a great time out of it now. You know, I'm doing stuff I want to do, you know,
00:40so it's, uh, that's the most important thing. How did you feel when you first heard that
00:44they were going to kill your character off? Well, sore point actually. I didn't know.
00:48I mean, I was in America getting married and thinking everything was great. I was coming
00:51back to run off with a girl, and then I got the script, and it's like, uh-oh. It's something,
00:57I mean, it's happened to many people, you know, they go into Granada, and all the cast
01:02know, except you, that you're going to get killed off. And I've done it many a times,
01:06thinking, oh, God, the poor thing, you know, and it happened to me. I mean, I wasn't really
01:10bothered anyway, but, uh, it was, you know, a bit of a shock, but they sort of, uh, closed the
01:16door for me anyway, so I mean, I couldn't go back even if I wanted to.
01:18Why do you, why do you think they actually closed the door on you like that?
01:22I think they thought I was, uh, I tried, they thought I'd leaked the story about me running
01:27off with some girl, you know, when I didn't. Honestly, I didn't.
01:31Do you think part of it might have been the fact that you have this hell-raising, you know,
01:35uh, private life? That started about- With wine and women? No. And more women.
01:39Wine and women and- More women. Yeah, uh, that started the first week after I joined the show.
01:44So they knew about it straight, you know, right at the beginning. So, uh, they obviously liked it.
01:49Mm-hm. Well, we're gonna have a look now at one of, uh, a rather dramatic moment in the life
01:54of Brian Tilsey
01:55now on Coronation Street. So- I've been worried. I'm glad you've come home.
02:02I haven't come home. All I've come for is the rest of me things.
02:06Brian! Don't leave us. I don't want you to. Please, Brian.
02:13Save your breath. All I've come for is me clothes. And that's it. You and me have finished.
02:27Did I tell her, guys? Did I tell her? Well, look, she's a right one now, isn't she?
02:31See, as soon as I died off with another guy. Such a slut, I tell you. I'm only kidding. I'm
02:40only kidding.
02:40Was that something you've practiced a lot in life? Uh, give women the, uh...
02:45Oh, the elbow? No, I normally get the elbow. Always get the elbow.
02:50No, I do. Well, let me tell you what happens with men, right, okay?
02:53What men, we have ego problems. And, uh, we, in our mind, want to finish with a woman.
02:58But because of our pride and our sexual sort of needs, we think we'll keep it going till we find
03:03somebody else.
03:04And I do that. But by the time I try and find somebody else, she's got peed off with me
03:08and I've gone.
03:09So, I've never got rid of anybody.
03:11Would you say that, in your heyday, your sexual needs were perhaps, uh...
03:15My heyday? I'm worse than ever now.
03:17Bigger than other blokes, if you'll excuse the expression.
03:21No, no, no. All I am with me is, I just, I did it probably a little bit more than
03:25most.
03:25But, uh, it was just in the papers that I did it a lot. Everybody does it. How many times
03:29do you do it?
03:35You know what I mean? It's like, you know...
03:38I mean, we love it.
03:39I'm a good Catholic lad and I'm not married yet.
03:41It makes the world go round. And it's the only thing, really, that's free.
03:44That's probably the best feeling in the world. I mean, would you agree, guys?
03:48Yeah!
03:50You did get married, uh, and your wife, Lisa Gibbons, well, I should say your ex-wife now, had a
03:56lot of money and everything.
03:57And you went over to the States with her. Millions, yeah.
04:00Did you actually feel a bit emasculated by the fact that you were a house husband kind of thing?
04:04Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, because of the American way, um, she, a great lady, you know, and, uh, but unfortunately
04:12we weren't right for each other.
04:14And yet it was tough, you know, because suddenly I wasn't earning any money.
04:18And she was paying for everything, even though I had money, but there's no way I'm gonna start spending my
04:21money there.
04:22And, yeah, it did have an effect.
04:25I spent all the money, it's great!
04:27She gave me, she gave me a, she gave me a platinum American Express card.
04:30It was a great time when my friends came out, just going up lunch.
04:33Was, was Hollywood full of too many temptations for a red-blooded male like you, though?
04:37Um, it doesn't make any difference where I am. If I was sort of in, uh, the North Pole, I'd
04:41still find someone to get hold of.
04:44You've always been annoying.
04:45I'm only a kid, I'm only a kid, I'm not that bad.
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