BROOKSIDE and Coronation Street favourite Michael Starke has made it a hat-trick of soap roles after joining Hollyoaks. The veteran actor, 63, played Thomas 'Sinbad' Sweeney in the Merseyside soap for 16 years and had a year-long stint on Corrie as kebab shop owner Jerry Morton.
He's now returning to soapland for two episodes as a cabbie, with a source telling The Sun he'll "witnesses some amusing conversations".
The episodes will air Wednesday and Thursday next week on E4, and on C4 Thursday and Friday. Sinbad started out life on Brookside as a window cleaner before going on to open his own shop The Sweeney and working in a chippy.
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