CHEESE PLATTER.

FORMER Coronation Street star Sean Wilson is carving out a tasty new career - as a champion cheesemaker.

Sean, who played Martin Platt in the ITV soap for 20 years, only started making cheese commercially in July.

But he won a gold medal for best crumbly Lancashire at the British Cheese Awards. Sean, 44, who makes the cheese himself, said: "It is a great honour."

He set up the Saddleworth Cheese Company after getting fed up with acting.

Sean, whose character Martin was married to Gail Platt, left Corrie in 2005 after refusing to do a storyline which involved the nurse having an affair with a 14-year-old girl.

He said: "If the phone rings with an acting offer now, it will have to be very good one to turn my head."

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ROLE: Sean with co-star Helen Worth