Wray is now in recovery. He expects to be back to normal in about three weeks.

“It’s painful now, you’ve pretty much lost an organ,” Wray said, “but it’s fatal if you leave it.”

Wray said he was thankful that Coronation Street had raised awareness for testicular cancer.

“It’s not a big deal,” Wray said. “People get kind of worried about it.”

Wray, like fictional Corrie character, Preston, has had a testicle removed.

“My testosterone will drop temporarily, but then in the next couple of months the other one will do the job of two,” Wray said. “It reverts back to normal.”

Wray’s story has gotten a response in the UK from Coronation Street, his wife, Emily, tweeted about Wray’s procedure, and received a response from Tristan Gemmill. “I was actually speaking to him earlier,” Wray said. BBC Manchester ran the story and connected Wray and Gemmill by telephone.

@itvcorrie @TristanGemmill my husband had an orchiectomy today, he found a lump after the storyline of Robert with testicular cancer. Thank you so much for that storyline and raising awareness. He never would have checked if it weren’t for those episodes 💕 pic.twitter.com/dirA3Hjdzj — emily. (@_3M1LY) January 27, 2018

Now that he’s had the surgery we need to wait to find out if it’s spread anywhere else but his doctor said “coronation street likely helped us catch this early enough”. So so so grateful 💕 — emily. (@_3M1LY) January 28, 2018