Coronation Street star Rob Mallard has reportedly split from his boyfriend of almost four years, fellow actor Matthew Martin, and has wiped all traces of him off social media
A Coronation Street star has reportedly split from their long-term partner. Soap star Rob Mallard and Matthew Martin are said to have gone their separate ways after almost four years together.
The couple who went public with their romance at the British Soap Awards in 2023 have now unfollowed one another on Instagram. Rob, who plays Daniel Osborne on the ITV soap opera, has also removed all images of Matt from his social media page.
Matt, who once appeared on Coronation Street as a policeman, has also removed all traces of Rob from his Instagram. All that remains is a singular family picture shared in March 2024, featuring Rob.
Matt, who also works as a modelling agent, played the policeman who arrested Cassie Plummer for drugging with intent to harm, interrupting her plan to defraud Ken Barlow after spiking his drink with drugs.
Prior to dating Matt, Rob, who joined the show in 2016, dated former co-star Daniel Brocklebank for nearly a year before they called time on their relationship in 2018. However, the pair remained on friendly terms.
The actor publicly came out as gay in 2017 and revealed that he never planned to hide his sexuality. Speaking to Gay Times, the actor said: “I never planned to keep it quiet that I was gay. The only concern I had at first was if I’m with a female character, will an audience who knows I’m gay in real life believe it?
“But that was just my own fears because I do believe they will.” Rob had a stress-free experience when he came out to his friends and family at the age of 17, with them immediately accepting him and showing their support.
He added: “I was very fortunate, I had a very non-plussed family, and it’s become the subject of warm, friendly general humour over the years.”
In the same year that Rob went public with his relationship with Matthew, he opened up to the Mirror about an invisible health condition, his “worsening” essential tremor. Rob was diagnosed with the condition at the age of 14 but was left perplexed when medical staff said “there’s nothing really that we can do for it”, while he explained his diagnosis was “very blasé”.
He told us: “There are sort of certain medications that can be prescribed to treat some of the symptoms such as beta-blockers,” and if he needed them, to return to his GP. Rob added: “The actual implications of having a lifelong illness that can get quite serious didn’t really hit me until probably my late teens, early twenties.”
The neurological condition, which is included in the same family as Parkinson’s and Motor Neurone Disease, is familial with Rob explaining his mum has a slight shake in her hand, before adding: “It didn’t feel that serious and it wasn’t until I got much older, and it got worse and then I started to ask more questions about it than I realised what it was.”
He said that while the condition is brought on by stress and adrenaline, he’s extremely comfortable working on Coronation Street. “From the beginning, all I had to do was just say ‘Oh, I’ve got this little tremor,’ and they’ve always worked with me and around me,” he revealed. He went on to reveal that in order to film certain shots for the show that require a steady hand, the camera crew will shoot in a way so his hand can’t be seen.
The Mirror has approached Rob’s spokesperson for comment.
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