Overview

• Jeff Hordley, who plays Cain Dingle, was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in 1996 after years of symptoms, underwent bowel surgery, and has spoken about losing his mother to the same illness in 1979.
• Claire King has described managing rheumatoid arthritis since her twenties, detailing weekly medications and on-set adjustments while calling it an ‘invisible disease.’
• Former cast member Leah Bracknell revealed stage 4 lung cancer in 2016, received around £50,000 in fan donations to seek treatment in Germany after NHS options were exhausted, and died in October 2019 at age 55.
• Michael Parr said he became severely ill while filming in India in 2024, hallucinated for four days before hospitalisation, and was treated for dehydration as doctors suspected Legionnaire’s disease.
• The latest articles compile previously reported accounts rather than introducing new medical developments or diagnoses.