Coronation Street star’s children in bits as they watched their dad get shot dead

Parental guidance required! (Picture: ITV/Danielle Baguley/Shutterstock)

What do Tristan Gemmill’s Coronation Street exit and the Grinch have in common?

They both almost ruined Christmas!

His character, Robert Preston, initially appeared all the way back in 1996 played by Julian Kay, having met future-femme fatale Tracy Barlow, then played by Dawn Acton, with the two having met in London.

They later married and moved away, and when Tracy came home, now played by Kate Ford and fully in her uber-bitch era, the two had ...