Should someone tell William Roache to shut up?

Not content with the upset he caused over his sex abuse comments, Coronation Street actor William Roache, who plays Ken Barlow, now goes and tells a New Zealand TV presenter he'd like to "smack her bottom".

The 81-year-old actor was filming a cookery segment with host Jeanette Thomas on a New Zealand TV programme. He was about to chop up a tomato then realised she had done it already. He told her: “You naughty girl. I would say I’m going to smack your bottom – I’d love to do that – but we’re not allowed to on TV.”

Jeanette, 40, laughed off his comments but Bill added: “There’s life in the old dog yet.”

Not for much longer I hope, as Ken on Corrie at least, if he keeps coming out with rubbish like this. 

Polly Hudson at the Mirror agrees.

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