Rob James-Collier - danger is his middle name

It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it. I just spent over seven minutes watching the video interview with Coronation Street's Rob James-Collier (Liam Connor) on itv.com. He talks about the forthcoming episodes in which Liam has an accident in the Lake District.

He says that Liam is really only in the Lake District in the first place to try and get at Carla. "He wanted to go somewhere more exotic to impress Carla and Tony - you know, 'My car's bigger than yours, my dad can have your dad,' all that kind of vibe. But they end up going to the Lakes, and it starts out all lovely and romantic, but then as the weather sets in they lose Ozzy, then they get lost themselves. Then they find Ozzy, Liam looks out over the edge of a cliff - and bye bye baby; goodnight Vienna."

Excerpts from the episodes show that the scene is very tense and genuinely dramatic, which is certainly helped by the location. "Filming in the Lake District, as you can imagine, was freezing," Rob says. "It was really cold, it was wet, it was windy, but I thoroughly enjoyed it - lots of jumping off cliffs and stuff like that, so yeah, it was good. We filmed the scenes in Honister Slate Mine, which is the last working slate mine in England. The guy who owns it, Mark, has got it into a fully functioning, English slate mine. He's a great guy, him and his mum really looked after us. So that's where it's set, lots of cliffs and rocky terrain. Very dangerous, but danger is my middle name!"

Rob is very funny when he's talking about the filming of the fall itself - he'd really love us to believe that he does all his own stunts. "The fall took a while to set up because we had a stunt man - no, I'm not going to say that, of course we didn't have a stunt man! We had to be taken up there by the team who work in Honister Slate Mine in 4x4's. You're literally driving round a mountain, and two feet that way is just a sheer drop of about a thousand feet."

But we can relax knowing that the world's most handsome man was never really at risk. "Was there a sense of danger during the helicopter scenes?" he says. "For me, no, because they used RAF and Mountain Rescue people, so for me there was no danger whatsoever because I was watching it all from base camp - with a nice mochachino! They wouldn't let me up there, but it was fantastic to watch, because they're got the RAF Sea King which is a beautiful, yellow beast of a helicopter, and it's all there, live, happening in front of your very eyes. Safe for me, and probably safe for the RAF and the Mountain Rescue because they do that stuff every day, don't they?"

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