Kirk first appears when Tyrone Dobbs (Alan Halsall) mistakenly believes that he is Maria Sutherland's (Samia Ghadie) boyfriend.

Kirk becomes good friends with Tyrone and Jason Grimshaw (Ryan Thomas) and starts dating Fiz Brown (Jennie McAlpine), whom he met at a flat-decorating party.

After Fiz' mother and Les' wife Cilla Battersby-Brown (Wendi Peters) leaves the street for Las Vegas, Kirk is left to look after her son, Chesney Brown (Sam Aston).

On his return, he reveals that he has a new girlfriend called Julie Carp (Katy Cavanagh), whom he fell in love with in Cyprus.

When Gary Windass (Mikey North) is arrested for assaulting a man who was hassling Izzy, Kirk makes a false statement to the police that it was he who committed the crime.

Later, Kirk is put in charge of helping colleague Michelle's son Ryan Connor (Sol Heras) in the packing department at Underworld, as Michelle is punishing Ryan for an incident involving setting fire to Steve McDonald's (Simon Gregson) house.

[2] However, after the film's scripts were delayed and amidst rumors that it would perform poorly, Whyment pulled out and returned to Coronation Street in a £60,000 deal.

[8] Laura Morgan of All About Soap wrote that she "simply could not imagine" Coronation Street without Kirk and his "gormless grin.

"[9] In 2004, Ian Hyland of the Sunday Mirror questioned whether there was a "better comic actor in Britain today than Andrew Whyment.