Coronation Street star details secrets of filming final Joel Deering scenes including co-star 'hitting him in face'

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Coronation Street star Calum Lill has shared some of the secrets of filming his final scenes as Joel Deering. The actor has officially bowed out of the ITV soap after 14 months of playing the twisted solicitor.

As fans know, Joel arrived onto the cobbles in September 2023 as a charming solicitor who Dee-Dee Bailey soon fell head over heels in love with.

But under his smooth exterior Joel was hiding a dark secret - a penchant for younger, underprivileged girls. When Lauren Bolton went missing in February of this year, it was later revealed that Joel was responsible, having abused his position as her duty solicitor, to subject her to a torrent of both physical and verbal abuse which led to her fleeing the street fearing for her life, and ended up fleeing the street following his vicious attack. READ MORE: Coronation Street's Peter Ash supported by co-stars as he confirms huge acting move after tragic soap exit READ MORE: Read more of our Coronation Street stories here But after the truth was starting to come out, thanks to his fiancée Dee-Dee Bailey and DS Lisa Swian, Joel was declared missing after he failed to show his face in court.

In the scenes aired at the end of September, a warrant was issued for Joel's arrest as he was seemingly set to face his comeuppance for his twisted crimes, which included grooming Lauren Bolton.