Coronation Street newcomer Jacob Roberts supported by Hollyoaks cast as he speaks out on new role
14.05.2024 - 09:33
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Coronation Street's newest recruit Jacob Roberts has been flooded with support from his former co-stars as the Hollyoaks star made his debut in the ITV soap. The actor's first scenes in the long-running show aired on Monday night (May 13) as part of a new storyline for Bernie Winter.
Bernie, played by Jane Hazlegorve, has been on a mission to track down her long-lost son Zodiac, who was adopted and had his name changed to Christopher Green not long after he was born.
During the first trip of the week to Weatherfield, Bernie continued her search for the child she gave away almost thirty years ago, as she tracked down a man with the same name and of the right age. She pretended to be an agency cleaner so she could get into his house.
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However, she was caught rifling through his drawers leading to Bernie admitting why she was really there. Christopher inisted he wasn't adopted but seemed angry at Bernie when she spoke about why she'd given her son away and why she's looking for him now when her other son, Paul Foreman, is dying.
A despondent Bernie headed home where she was quickly confronted by daughter Gemma Winter-Brown who asked her to explain who Christopher Green was. She lied, saying it was a former lover, and while Gemma spoke to Paul about searching for him to reunite him with her mum, Bernie was sharing the truth about Chrisotpher's adoption with Dev.
She explained that the baby was a result of a hook-up at the Hacienda and that she wasn't forced to give him up,. but instead begged social services to take him off of her hands as he was her third child, after