Coronation Street star Michael Le Vell may feel like a dear friend to viewers having played Kevin Webster for almost four decades.
The actor joined the ITV soap in 1983 as the mechanic and it'd be fair to say he hasn't looked back since. Michael, from Newton Heath, has seen his character at the centre of some of the long-running programme's biggest storylines over the years - from his on-and-off relationship and marriage with Sally and his affairs with Natalie Horrocks and Molly Dobbs to the tragic death of his son, Jake, and subsequently fathering Molly's son Jack.
But as he approaches 40 years in the iconic soap, it appears there are two people the soap star would like to see back on the cobbles - his on-screen daughters. READ MORE: ITV Corrie's Samia Longchambon shares amazing throwback with fellow soap stars from early TV job Kevin and Sally share two children, Rosie and Sophie.
Rosie, played by Helen Flanagan, was last seen in the soap in 2018 before heading off on maternity leave to welcome her second child, daughter Delilah, who is now three.
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