Corrie favourite Daniel Brocklebank's co star romance and show exit admission
Coronation Street star Daniel Brocklebank has been through some frankly ungodly experiences since first stepping foot on the Cobbles.
As a man of the cloth, Billy Mayhew doesn't exactly live the life of many vicars and has been involved in some of the ITV show's most dramatic storylines since his arrival in 2014.
Fans thought we were saying goodbye to the 43-year-old last year when he said he was handing in his dog collar.
But he stuck around and the good news is he isn't planning on packing up his Bibles and moving out of Manchester just yet.
It has been a tumultuous few months for Billy as he tries to keep Summer Spellman out of danger after she held hostage by the villainous Mike and Esther and relied on her three dads to get her out of trouble.
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Daniel Brocklebank joined the programme back in 2014He's got his own issues to contend with as well.
Billy this week as he confessed he still loves Paul Foreman before the builder, played by Peter Ash, broke his heart as he told him it is better they remain friends.
Daniel told the LiverpoolEcho back in in December he has no intention of quitting the Street anytime soon.
He said: " I'm in my ninth year and it's without a doubt one of the best places I've worked in my 30 year career. I adore this place."
He only took on the Billy Mayhew role because his Coronation Street super-fan mum applied the pressure (ITV)
He and co-star Rob Mallard were in a relationship before calling it quits (WireImage)The actor was living in London at the time he was offered the role on Corrie and wanted time to consider the decision.
He said: "I was out for lunch with my mum and my grandmother and I spoke with my agent. I said, 'look, I'll think about it and call you back."
But his mum comes first - and the huge fan was in hysterics as he recalled how she stepped in to change his mind.
He said: "I told her it's a three year contract and I'd probably have to move. She went 'I don't care, you're taking it. You have to take it. I'm not leaving this table until you phone him now'.
Away from the screen, Daniel was involved in a relationship with co-star Rob Mallard, who plays teacher Daniel Osbourne.
But he won't be saying goodbye any time soon (ITV)They dated in 2017 and made their red carpet debut together at the British LGBT awards.
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Rob won the Best Newcomer prize at the British Soap Awards that year and cutely said his co-star was "the best thing I've taken home this year".
However, the couple split two months after going public with their relationship.
Daniel enjoyed a successful film and television career before he joined the cast of Corrie. He played Ivan Jones in Emmerdale and also Roger Green in EastEnders.
Daniel also enjoyed Hollywood success as Sam Gosse in the Academy award winning film, Shakespeare in Love.
The vicar has been involved in plenty of trauma (ITV)The telly favourite told Mirror Online how he wanted to be open about his sexuality and came out as gay after the film was released.
He said: “I pretend for a living, I didn’t want to pretend in my private life. When you spend your life on screen, it’s important to hold on to the bits that are real. “Who I am in my real life should bear no relevance to what I play on screen.”
However, he lamented how the climate was such that this had a negative impact on his career. He said: "I remember my management in Los Angeles trying to convince me not to come out because they said it would affect work – and it did."
However, he has never regretted his decision to be open about his sexuality.
But he had his heart broken after making a love confession (ITV)He added: "One of the reasons I decided to come out publicly was because of the lack of gay role models when I was growing up. I was born in 1979, so I grew up in the 80s during the AIDS epidemic and social attitudes and legalities were very different.
“I came out in the mid-1990s and the difference between then and now is huge. Now it’s incredibly fashionable to be gay and I like to think I was in a small way part of that movement to get the ball rolling.”
He said last year that is going to bed early to combat the cost of living crisis.
Daniel has taken a drastic measure in a bid to save money on electricity amid the current astronomical rise in household bills affecting the whole of the UK.
Taking to Twitter, he wrote: "Anyone else find themselves going to bed early just so they don’t have to turn the lights on? I feel like I did when I was 8 and could still hear the bigger kids playing outside #energycrisis."
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