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The actor, who was a staple on the show for 15 years, left in a dramatic live episode marking the soap's 50th anniversary. Since leaving the cobbles, Steven has made a surprising career change and is now working as a meat trader at Bennett's of Yorkshire Quality Butchers in Leeds.
AXED Corrie star Steven Arnold has admitted his boozing and bad time-keeping could be to blame for his sacking. His character Ashley Peacock was killed off last week crushed to death in the tram crash that claimed three other lives.
the butcher. Steven, better remembered as Ashley Peacock, the butcher of Coronation Street, was seen doing a similar role off-set. Post his departure from ITV's famous soap over 14 years ago, Steven swapped his actor's hat for a butcher's apron and joined Bennett's of Yorkshire Quality Butchers.);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(v7PFZpDRMr6ikPIPtP_hoAw__159,
Born in 2002, Joshua was the product of an extramarital fling between Maxine and Matt Ramsden, but Ashley chose to forgive Maxine and raise him as his own son. In 2003, following Maxine's murder by Richard Hillman, Ashley hired Claire Casey as a nanny for Joshua.
Departure. The Peacocks' departure tied in with the show's 50th anniversary celebrations. The anniversary episode was broadcast live on 9 December 2010, with Ashley being killed-off in an explosion, taking place at The Joinery, which caused a tram to derail onto the street.