Former Coronation Street actor Eric Potts admits making indecent child images

Former soap opera actor Eric Potts has pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent photographs of a child and three counts of distributing the images, the Daily Mail reported. The 61-year-old actor was arrested in August 2026 before being charged with the six offenses. [1]

The Daily Mail, Metro.co.uk, The Sun, The Mirror, and SSBCrack all reported that Potts admitted to making indecent images of children. The Daily Mail noted that Potts faces potential prison time following his guilty plea. [1][2][3][4][5]

Potts was born in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He played the eccentric baker Diggory Compton in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, and appeared in other television programs including Brookside, Casualty, and Emmerdale. [1][7][10]