Millions of viewers were left stunned during Coronation Street’s episode on Monday September 9, as it was dramatically revealed that Tyrone Dobbs (Alan Halsall) had been the victim of a hit and run accident.

The father-of-two was left with life-altering injuries on the ITV soap, after being struck by a car that swerved to avoid teenager Betsy Swain outside the Weatherfield precinct.

As Tyrone’s family rushed to the hospital, doctors battled to save his life. In the coming days, it will become clear that the mechanic has sustained a serious spinal injury and faces a lengthy recovery process.

In heart-wrenching scenes next week, a terrified Tyrone will confess to his wife Fiz that he is unable to feel or move his legs. As the family grapples with their new reality, police focus their efforts on locating the driver responsible for the horrific incident.

However, while he’s well known to fans for playing Tyrone, one of Alan’s early roles was playing Ollie for five episodes in Children’s Ward between 1997 and 1998.

Alan Halsall featured in Heartbeat as a young kid before his Cobbles debut(Image: ITV)

He also had roles in Queer as Folk, Heartbeat and The Cops before he stepped onto the cobbles in 1998. Away from the Salford-based set, Alan, now 42, married former Corrie star and current Hollyoaks actress Lucy-Jo Hudson in 2009.

They welcomed daughter Sienna-Rae three years later. However, the couple split in March 2016 and divorced in 2018. “We’re so amicable. We get on and we speak every day. He comes round for a brew. We will maintain as mummy and daddy,” Lucy-Jo, who starred in the ITV soap as Katy Harris from 2002 to 2005, told the Loose Women at the time.

Meanwhile, Alan Halsall has found love again with a HR worker 17 years his junior. Pals have said the Coronation Street actor is “smitten” by the blonde mum-of-two Ellie Dolan.

The pair have been dating since last December, after he got back from the Aussie jungle, having met at a swanky hotel and country club where she works and where Alan is a member.

And in a sign that their relationship is getting serious, 25-year-old Ellie’s kids have met Alan’s beloved daughter Sienna, 11, according to friends.

Alan had previously split from his Corrie co-star Tisha Merry, 31, after five years. Last Sunday, Alan re-posted a picture on Instagram which Ellie had taken of him while on a date at steak restaurant Gaucho in Manchester.

And on Friday the pair posted a picture of them together on Instagram. Ellie is a human resources coordinator at Delta Hotels by Marriott Worsley Park Country Club in Alan’s nearby home town of Worsley.

Alan, a keen golfer, is a member at the club where memberships cost up to £1,181. There is also a four-star hotel on site.

Elsewhere, it’s said that Alan is enjoying a ‘second career’. He is said to be building up a property empire after investing in some real estate in Manchester and has aspirations of owning an entire street.

The Mirror claimed that he is launching his property empire ambitions through his company, Rae Property Ltd, which he is said to have named after his daughter Sienna-Rae.