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Corrie Geoff star describes 'upsetting' role as he wins Best Actor and Best Villain

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Coronation Street star Ian Bartholomew admitted it was "upsetting" to see his character in action, as he accepted three awards at the Inside Soap Awards this evening.

The 66-year-old actor played the dreaded Geoff Metcalfe, who slowly and cruelly subjected his wife Yasmeen Nazir (Shelley King) to physical and psychological abuse over the course of a year.

A classic villain, not since the serial killer Richard Hillman, who was played by Brian Capron in the early noughties, has there been a character so detested by Coronation Street fans.

It seemed Geoff had met his fate earlier this year when Yasmeen slashed him in the neck in an act of self-defence, only to be sent behind bars.

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