Coronation Street fans were given a rare treat as Tyrone Dobbs and Gary Windass teamed up - or at least the actors that play them did. Alan Halsall and Mikey North swapped the cobbles of Weatherfield for the Cheltenham Festival last week - and they arrived in style.
The soap stars jumped in a helicopter from Manchester for the huge horse racing event in the Gloucestershire town held last week.
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Alan first shared a slow-motion clip of his arrival with the iconic James Bond theme music and it couldn't have been further from his on-screen mechanic character.
"Annual slo mo walk w***er ! #cheltenham," Alan joked before the compliments came flooding in for his superstar arrival. But there was even more flattery to come when the 36-year-old, from Walkden, returned to Instagram with some more snaps from his and Mikey's mate date.
"St Patricks Day at Cheltenham……What a day," Alan captioned the snaps to his thousands of followers with the first showing him and Mikey in their best bib and tucker, smiling in the spring sunshine for the camera. Another showed dad-of-one Alan rocking his dark shades in front of the helicopter which got them safely to the event while there was also a snap of the co-stars enjoying a glass of pink fizz in their fancy ride.
And the pair's fans were quick to comment but not before their fellow Corrie co-star got involved in the comments, joking: "Dumb n dumber."
"Looking very dapper lads," @zoerawson1 commented.
@wendi.donaldson gushed: "You two look like models!"
"Very smart boys looking smoking," @1962bessy said.
@angelahudgel82 wrote: "Oh you handsome pair."
"Very dapper gents! A far cry from the street," @samanthajames0794 added.
Alan has played lovable Tyrone since 1998 but last year the partner of Fiz Stape was turned against when he embarked on an affair with Alina Pop and she fell pregnant with his child before leaving him behind in Weatherfield. Meanwhile, Mikey has starred in the soap as reformed bad boy Gary since 2008. But Gary's past is set to catch up with him this week when the body of former loan shark Rick Neelan is found.
