Coronation Street fans hit out at Daniel Brocklebank who goes to bed early to ‘save electricity’

Coronation Street fans have taken to Twitter to hit out at actor Daniel Brocklebank after he claimed to go to bed early to save money amid the cost of living crisis.

In a recent post the soap star, 42, who plays Billy Mayhem on the show, revealed the drastic action he takes to cut down on the cost of electricity. 

However fans were quick to call out the star who reportedly earns a six-figure-sum for his role in the ITV serial and who according to The Express is worth an incredible £5 million.

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Taking to the social media platform the actor, who’s appeared in the show since 2014, wrote: ‘Anyone else find themselves going to bed early just so they don’t have to turn the lights on? I feel like I did when I was 8 & could still hear the bigger kids playing outside..’

Coronation Street cast members receive an annual salary, with bonuses for the episodes they appear in. Familiar faces on the soaps are said to earn around £200,000 a year while younger stars can pick up around £100,000 annually.

And fans were quick to call out the actor with one follower commenting: ‘£150k a year who is he kidding?’.

Big Bucks: Coronation Street cast members receive an annual salary, with bonuses for the episodes they appear in. Familiar faces on the soaps are said to earn around £200,000 a year while younger stars can pick up around £100,000 annually (pictured in character on the show)

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Posted: Taking to the social media platform the actor wrote: ‘Anyone else find themselves going to bed early just so they don’t have to turn the lights on? I feel like I did when I was 8 & could still hear the bigger kids playing outside..’

While a second posed a snap of Daniel’s reported ‘eye watering’ net worth writing:  ‘Good god man!’.

And third cheekily added:  ‘You need a better agent pal if you’re on a prime TV show and can’t afford to have lights on’.

While a fourth wrote:  ‘You’ve got an estimated worth of 8 million [dollars] oh my heart bleeds’ .

Outcry: Fans were quick to hit out at the actor as they took to twitter to air their grievances

One annoyed viewer tweeted: ‘Why don’t you do us all a favour and save more electricity and not charge up you devices so you don’t have to tweet …oh you can afford to do that can you’.

Daniel has starred in many TV programmes throughout his career as well as appearing as Sam Goose in the Oscar winning movie Shakespeare In Love.

And while his salary is not known the soap’s top earner is veteran Jack P Shepherd, who is thought to bag around £200,000 a year with his role as David Platt, which he has played for 20 years.

Simon Gregson, who has played Steve McDonald since 1989, is thought to take home around £160,000 a year.

Big break: Daniel (left) has starred in many TV programmes throughout his career as well as appearing as Sam Goose in the Oscar winning movie Shakespeare In Love (pictured with co-star Joseph Fiennes)

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Money bags: While Daniel’s salary is not known the soap’s top earner is veteran Jack P Shepherd (left)  who is thought to bag around £200,000 a year with his role as David Platt, which he has played for 20 years. Simon Gregson (right) who has played Steve McDonald since 1989, is thought to take home around £160,000 a year

 This comes after Former Corrie star Amanda Barrie has revealed she kept her sxuality a secret when she started working on the soap, as she believed she would’ve been sacked if it came out – like openly gay actor Daniel.

The actress, now 86, waited until 2003, aged 67, to come out as bisexual due to fears it would harm her career prospects. 

Amanda joined the ITV soap in 1981 playing the hugely popular, Alma Sedgewick, a role she played until 2001. 

 At the time, she was married to theatre director and actor Robin Hunter, whom she wed in 1967. The couple separated in the mid-1980s and were still legally married when Robin died from emphysema in 2004.

Opening up: Coronation Street’s Amanda Barrie, 86, has claimed she would’ve been sacked if she came out as bisexual in the Eighties (pictured in 2019)  

Although she was married to a man, rumours of Amanda’s bisexuality continued to swirl, with Amanda telling the Conversation Street podcast: ‘Every week I would come up to the office. 

‘They’d go, ‘You’re coming out.’ ‘Am I?’ ‘Yeah, they’ve got this thing on you.’

‘I spent a fortune on solicitors because believe me if that had happened to me at that time they would not have kept me in Coronation Street and I will stand by that.

Not because of them [the producers] but because of people, who shall be nameless, who would’ve said, ‘I’m not working with her.” 

Iconic: Amanda joined the ITV soap in 1981 playing the hugely popular, Alma Sedgewick, a role she played until 2001 (pictured in 1989) 

Amanda went on to note that things are far different now due to the LGBT cast members on the soap such as Daniel, Anthony Cotton and Rob Mallard. 

She exclaimed: ‘Now, I fall about, I said, ‘Bloody hell, are they opening a gay club in Coronation Street now?’

‘What’s going on? How many are they? They’re all coming out. Why didn’t they come out when I was there? I good have had so many hooks if they’d come out. I was ahead of the game.’  

Amanda – whose character was killed off from the soap in 2001 in a cervical cancer storyline – revealed she’s still a big fan of the show, noting: ‘I watch it religiously. I’ll just catch up with the family.’

MailOnline has contacted a Coronation Street spokesperson for comment.  

Cute couple: Amanda revealed her bisexuality in he 2003 autobiography It’s Not a Rehearsal and went on to marry long-term partner Hilary Bonner in 2014 (pictured in 2018)