direct to your inboxWill Mellor is set to join Coronation Street in a 'villainous' role.The actor, from Stockport, will arrive in Weatherfield next month as drug lord Harvey.His arrival comes as Leanne Battersby, played by Jane Danson, finds herself forced into a dangerous world of drugs and despair.Corrie fans will have seen the start of Simon Barlow's decent into drug carrying and in the coming weeks viewers will see a still grieving Leanne battling to save her son from the hands of an evil drugs gang he's got mixed up in.
This fierce maternal instinct to protect Simon is what will throw her into the orbit of drugs lord Harvey.Harvey is Jacob's 'boss', who has been seen on screen in recent weeks, and after Jacob has lured a vulnerable.
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