Coronation Street star confirms darker side to Rob ‘than he has known’ | Soaps

Returning Coronation Road star Marc Bayliss has teased there might be a good darker facet to his character Rob Donovan this time round. 

The Corrie villain will make a shock reappearance on Friday’s episode of the ITV cleaning soap when his son Bobby Crawford (Jack Carroll) goes to go to him in jail. 

Rob was jailed again in 2014 for the homicide of Tina McIntyre (Michelle Keegan), who he pushed off the builder’s yard balcony.

Together with his sister Carla Connor (Alison King) in want of a kidney transplant after the injury brought on by her current case of sepsis, Bobby visits Rob within the hope he’ll conform to be a donor. 

Teasing how Rob has modified since viewers final noticed him throughout a visitor look in 2017, Marc says: ‘Rob is a really totally different individual. It’s been seven years since we final noticed him. That’s loads of life. It’s loads of time to be within the jail system as effectively. 

‘Whether or not his core nature has modified or not, whether or not he’s made modifications for the better good, is but to be seen.’

He continued: ‘He’s not had the simplest of instances in jail, as I don’t assume anybody would do for that period of time, significantly somebody who did what he did to a younger lady. It’s not one thing that he’s had a straightforward journey with, and it’s one thing that he has large regrets over with the way in which that every part performed out. 

‘We do get to see a few of that on display, in addition to Rob’s real emotions. However with Rob, there are all the time motives to make his life higher than what it’s, and which will effectively get him into hassle but once more.’

Marc explains that whereas followers will see ‘some heartfelt moments’ with Rob’s loved-oned – together with some new characters – he added: ‘There’s a darker facet to Rob than I’ve recognized earlier than, and we get a window into, I’d say, a person who wants extra help than he’s getting.’

There are set to be dramatic scenes throughout Bobby’s go to to see his estranged father, as they discover themselves in a hostage scenario involving one other acquainted face – Matty Radcliffe (Seamus McGoff) who has been jailed for brother Mason’s (Luca Toolan) homicide.

Marc revealed: ‘Initially he isn’t actually prepared to probably go down the route of being a kidney donor for Carla however then he asks Bobby to return again to the jail to see him once more, and so they discover themselves in the course of a hostage scenario and Rob involves the rescue. However is all of it it appears?

‘There may be an escalation of a scenario which entails Matty Radcliffe and all is just not because it appears within the precise second. However on the similar time, Rob doesn’t actually need to see Bobby in turmoil or at risk in any method, form or type. 

‘Whether or not he’s actually at risk, is to be seen, as a result of there’s something else that’s occurring within the background on the similar time, however what that’s can’t be revealed till it unfolds on display,’ Marc added cryptically.  

Coronation Road airs Rob Donovan’s return on Friday 10 January at 8pm on ITV1 or stream first from 7am on ITVX.

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