Corrie's Alex Bain on the 'truly scary' moments that happen when you grow up in the spotlight
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.