Coronation Street’s Rob Mallard says his health condition is ‘worse’

Coronation Street star Rob Mallard has said his tremor is getting worse and shared how his soap bosses are helping him to adapt at work.

The actor who plays Daniel Osbourne in ITV's soap said that his health condition, an essential tremor diagnosed when he was 14, has deteriorated in recent years.

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He told The Express: "It’s got worse. It used to just be my hand but now the whole of my arm shakes, my legs shake, the back of my neck and head shake. It looks like I'm saying ‘no’ to everything all the time."

But despite the condition affecting his day to day life, Mallard, 30, said that his Corrie co-stars and bosses had been helping him to cope.

He said: "I manage it with humour really, because if you don't, it can get frustrating. You get very wound up in yourself so I just kind of take it with a humorous perspective. With work, they're all aware of it.

"If there's something that comes up or if I need to do something I'll usually just practise and practise and practise. But if I do shake and it's very obvious I'll just stop and say 'can I go again?'"

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An essential tremor is caused by neurones in the brain firing incorrectly, but Mallard said that although he was diagnosed as a teen, he lived with the condition for around 10 years before truly understanding it.

Saying that his initial diagnosis was "downplayed" by doctors, he admitted that he "didn't realise it was going to keep getting worse" until he went back to the doctor at 24.

Mallard said he had been shocked when he did some research into what an essential tremor looks like for people later in life.

He first spoke about his tremor publicly in 2018 on This Morning, where he said: "I was diagnosed with an essential tremor when I was 14, but I didn’t realise how serious it was until I was in my mid 20s. You assume with shaking it’s an old people thing.

"It’s common in young people and often misdiagnosed as anxiety, or people may think you're withdrawing from something, whereas it’s actually neurones in the brain that are firing incorrectly, causing involuntary shaking."

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