Former Brookside actor Gerard Kelly has died

Star of stage and screen Gerard Kelly has died aged 51.

It is believed that Kelly died in hospital after collapsing at his home earlier this week. He had starred in a number of television shows including Brookside, in which he played bad boy Callum Finnegan in the late 90s and was at the centre of the Millennium Club explosion in the Liverpool soap.

He also rose to fame in comedy City Lights and had recently starred in Extras with Ricky Gervais and several pantomime shows. Kelly was from Glasgow and his family have asked for ”privacy during this sad and difficult time’.