direct to your inboxBack in 2008, a young boy from Blackburn joined one of the country's biggest soaps. Thirteen years later and Alex Bain is still at the heart of the Coronation Street cast with another huge storyline underway as his character, Simon Barlow, is lured into the dark and murky world of drugs gangs.
It will see a still grief-stricken Leanne Tilsley desperately try and save her son as drug lord Harvey, played by Will Mellor, makes an appearance. "I feel honoured to be trusted with such a big storyline because they could have given this storyline to so many talented actors and I feel honoured that they chose to give it to me," Alex, 19, said during a recent interview the Manchester Evening News .
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