Arnold and his younger brother, Kevin, both appeared in the
Granada Television series ''
Children's Ward. He also worked on the medical information film Growing Pains
, and made appearances in a range of other TV series including The Bill, Medics, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and Common As Muck. He also played Ant in Distance Between The Stars'' for BBC Radio 4.
Coronation Street (1995–2010) In 1995, Arnold made his debut on
Coronation Street as
Ashley Peacock, a role for which he was nominated for Best Actor at the 1999
National Television Awards and Most Popular Actor at the British Soap Awards 2003. After fifteen years on the soap, the character was axed by producer Phil Collinson in 2010, and Ashley was killed off in the episode broadcast to celebrate the show's fiftieth anniversary on 8 December 2010 in the
tram crash. In 2020, the soap star appeared in Week 2 (Cheshire) of Celebrity Come Dine with Me 2020, where he (alongside fellow celebs Charlotte Crosby, Dawn Ward, Ewen MacIntosh and Jay Hutton) competed in a week of wining and dining for a chance to win a £1,000 cash prize for their chosen charity. == References ==