Coronation Street's Luca Toolan announces new career
Luca Toolan was killed off Coronation Street in January 2025, and a year on, he has embarked on a new career.
Coronation Street's Luca Toolan has launched his own production company - a year after he was killed off the ITV soap.
The 22-year-old actor - whose character, Mason Radcliffe, was stabbed to death by his brothers, Matty (Seamus McGoff) and Logan (Harry Lowbridge), last January - said it was a "dream come true" to have creative control over his own projects.
In a TikTok interview for Cheshire’s Mix 56 with Phil Roberts, Luca quipped: "Life after Corrie, I'm not actually dead!"
He added: "Life continues, I'm making my own stuff now, I’ve got my own production company so that’s my passion is making projects."
Asked how he feels about working on his own projects, Luca replied: "It's a dream come true, that's the stuff that really excites me, having that creative licence and writing, directing, making, hearing stuff.
"Honestly, that's the most fun stuff."
The entertainer's fans reacted to his new career in the post's comments section, as one penned: "You're doing really well I hope you're doing great @Lucaku (sic)."
A second supporter typed: "Good luck to you I would love to see you in Corrie again (sic)."
And a third follower wrote: "Still got amazing eyes."
Luca's Coronation Street alter ego Mason was introduced in 2023, and the character headed up a gang at school and relentlessly bullied Liam Connor Jr. (Charlie Wrenshall), the son of Maria Connor (Samia Longchambon), in 2024.
In January 2025, Mason was stabbed to death in a fight with his brothers Matty and Logan.
It was a retaliation attack after Mason gave the police evidence that Logan and Matty were responsible for the death of his girlfriend Betsy Swain's mum (Sydney Martin) in 2021.
Dylan Wilson (Liam McCheyne) tried to intervene in the attack and had brought the zombie knife with him that was hastily taken by Matty and Logan.
Mason stumbled to the playground where he had a hallucination about his future with Betsy.
Abi Franklin (Sally Carman) found the teenager screaming for help, and she tried her best to save him.
He pleaded: "I’m going to die, aren’t I? I’m going to die.”
She replied: "You’re not going to die. Mason, listen to me, an ambulance is on the way, and you’re not going to die."
But the ambulance that had been trying to get to him was distracted by a hoax call, so it took longer than usual to arrive on the scene and rush him to hospital.
There was nothing medics could do, and Mason died after receiving medical treatment, and Sean Tully (Antony Cotton) found Dylan alive and tried to urge him to go to the police with information, unaware that his son was the one who had brought the knife to the scene in the first place.
Following his exit, Luca felt "a mixture of emotions" about Mason being killed off, but is thankful to ITV for giving him his first professional role.
He said: "Of course, when I first heard, there was a mixture of emotions because I was sad that Mason was going to die and that means I would be leaving – but equally, I was really excited and honoured to be part of this storyline because it's an incredibly important issue that needs to be tackled.
"I feel so privileged to have had this opportunity to start my professional career at Coronation Street and what a great time I've had.
"I found out around February or March time, so it was a long time coming. It gave me the opportunity to do a lot of research into the storyline, which was great.
"Like I've said before, I really did underestimate the power of Coronation Street and didn't quite grasp how much it can affect the viewers, especially if they've been through something similar themselves."
