The man who played the well-known Emmerdale character Butch Dingle has embarked on an entirely new career outside of acting.
Actor Paul Loughran's character Butch was killed off in a village bus crash in 2000, leaving Loughran out of a job.
After leaving Emmerdale behind, Loughran went on to appear in ITV's The Bill and Heartbeat. He was also in Blue Murder from 2003 to 2009, playing DS Butchers.
However, his career then took on a completely different trajectory as he went back to university and trained to be a primary school teacher, reports Leeds Live.
The Northern Irish actor reportedly worked in Blackburn until 2016 when he appeared in the television drama 'Jericho'. In the same year, he landed the role of Darryl Perkins - the father of Craig Tinker (Colson Smith) - in Coronation Street.
However, his stint on the fellow ITV soap was short-lived, and his character hasn't made an appearance since September 2016. He appeared in Casualty as Michael McKern in 2017, according to film database IMDb.
Given that he has not been credited with any work since then, it is thought that Paul went on to pursue a full-time career in education.
However, Paul does not have an official page on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, so it is impossible to know exactly what has been doing in the intervening years.
Bizarrely, in the 1980s Loughran's voice was used as a dub for the then-Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams when the Irish republican's voice was banned from being broadcast in Britain.
The decision to ban certain voices from Sinn Féin and several Irish republican and loyalist groups was taken by the British government following a period of intense sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.
It reflected the UK government's desire to prevent Sinn Féin from using the media for its political advantage during the brutal Northern Irish civil conflict known as 'The Troubles', which raged for 30 years between the late 1960s and 1998.
