CORONATION Street bosses have cast Stephen Lord in the role of Seb Franklin's dad. The 49-year-old actor will arrive on the cobbles just months after his son was murdered by Corey Brent and Kelly Neelan was wrongly sent down for his brutal crime.
But TV fans may recognise the actor from another soap - EastEnders. Stephen played Jase Dyer, who was Jay Brown's dad, for a year.
His last scenes for the BBC soap aired 13 years ago in August 2008. The casting has been confirmed by Sally Carman who plays Seb's mum Abi Franklin. "He's a wrong'un," she told Digital Spy. "I like what they did with that. "There were more scenes we were meant to do together – with me and Stephen Lord, who plays him, but because I got ill, they were re-written. "It was.
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