Former Coronation Street star Luca Toolan up for Strictly Come Dancing challenge
Luca Toolan - who left Coronation Street in January - wants to get the chance to compete on Strictly Come Dancing in the future.
Luca Toolan wants to do Strictly Come Dancing.
The 21-year-old actor left Coronation Street in January after his alter ego, Mason Radcliffe, was stabbed and killed in a fight with his brothers Matty (Seamus McGoff) and Logan (Harry Lowbridge) in a retaliation attack after Mason gave the police evidence of Logan and Matty's involvement in the death of Becky Swain (Amy Cudden).
Now, Luca is keen to get his dancing shoes on and take to the BBC Latin and ballroom dance show's dance floor one day.
When asked if he would be up for learning to dance on the show, he replied: "I’d love to do Strictly!"
Luca was attending the Inside Soap Awards in London on Monday night (29.09.25) and was celebrating after Coronation Street took home the Best Storyline gong for Mason's death and Abi Franklin's Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD) after Abi (Sally Carman) found Mason Radcliffe wounded and bleeding in Weatherfield Precinct.
Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz about the accolade, he said: "I’m over the flipping moon because, obviously, we lost the [Best Single Episode] award [at the British Soap Awards], that stung a little bit.
"But it’s not really for us, it’s for everyone who put their heart and soul into it. It sounds a little corny, but it’s true.
"The storywriters, the crew, everyone. Everyone was dialed in on this set, so it’s for them really, for all of us it’s a win."
To prepare for Mason's fatal storyline - which saw the teenager stabbed with a "zombie knife" during the fight - he had to get in a place where his "heart and soul" was "on the line".
Luca explained: "I spoke to Jordan Hogg - an amazing director - about the preparation that was needed for it before we started shooting, and it was just about getting yourself in a headspace where you were willing to just put your heart and soul on the line.
"It sounds kind of corny as an actor, but genuinely just to actually be so vulnerable and just cry and cry and cry and just put your heart and soul on the line, it’s quite a hard thing to do."
Even though the storyline was physically demanding for the star, Luca said it was the "biggest privilege ever".
He added: "If you’re crying even if it's fake or not, your body doesn’t know the difference, so you still finish the day and you’re absolutely knackered, psychologically you can kind of know, ‘Right this isn't real.'
"But physically, you’re like, 'Ugh.'
"But oh my goodness, it’s like the biggest privilege ever."
Coronation Street fended off Phil Mitchell: Hypermasculinity in crisis (EastEnders), John Sugden's hero complex (Emmerdale) and Teenage sexual exploitation (Hollyoaks) to win the Best Storyline award.
