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Coronation Street newcomer Will Mellor worried about abuse over new role
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Will Mellor is worried he could be abused in public over his Coronation Street role.
The 44-year-old actor will appear on the ITV soap next month as villainous drug lord Harvey, and he s hoping fans remember his previous roles rather than assuming he s just like the bad lad in real life.
Speaking on his podcast Two Pints with Will & Ralf , he said: The character is a proper bad lad, a Salford lad, he’s a bit of a drug baron and he gets young lads involved who haven’t got criminal records selling drugs for him.
Updated: 9 Feb 2021, 9:31
CORONATION Street will welcome Will Mellor to the Cobbles in his first out-and-out baddie role as drugs lord Harvey.
The Manchester actor, of Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps fame, has shunned a return to rival soap, Hollyoaks, by doing so.
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Will Mellor will play his first baddie role as he joins Coronation StreetCredit: ITV
Instead, his new ITV character will get gritty and hardcore in Coronation Street s Weatherfield as his drug ring becomes entangled with Leanne Battersby s son, Simon.
Jane Danson s character finds herself forced into his world of drugs and despair while still struggling with the passing of her youngest son Oliver, whom she shared with Steve McDonald, from the incurable mitochondrial disease.
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