Coronation Street badboy Terry Duckworth is coming back
Terry, played by Nigel Pivaro, will return to the long-running show in spring for around a month.
Terry, played by Nigel Pivaro, will return to the long-running show in spring for around a month.
Viewers will see him reunited with his son Tommy, played by Chris Fountain, in his first appearance in the soap since the day of his mother Vera's funeral in January 2008.
Pivaro said he could not "refuse" the offer to return, but said it would be "a little sad" being there without Liz Dawn and Bill Tarmey, who played his screen parents, Jack and Vera.
He said: "Part of the excitement is that the show has changed so much with so many different characters and set ups it will present Terry with a completely different landscape to that which he knew before.
"I am going to enjoy playing Terry rediscovering his roots, the changes that have taken place and his reaction to them.
"It will be strange and a little sad without my old sparring partners, Bill and Liz with whom I had forged such a strong working and personal relationship, but I relish creating an interesting new rapport with Chris who plays Terry's son Tommy."
Pivaro is not the only soap veteran returning to their old haunts - the BBC announced today that Letitia Dean is coming back to EastEnders as Sharon Watts.
Coronation Street producer Phil Collinson said: "I'm very excited to be welcoming arch villain Terry Duckworth back to Coronation Street. I grew up watching him duck and dive and break his parents' hearts - a deliciously evil performance from Nigel Pivaro. This time though he'll not only be blighting the life of his son Tommy but the lives of every resident of Coronation Street with a typically audacious scheme."
Millions of viewers tuned in in 1993 to see Pivaro's character take Tommy away from Jack and Vera and sell him to his other grandparents.
Fountain told ITV1's Loose Women show he was looking forward to Pivaro's return.
He said: "It opens up a whole different side of Tommy that I can work with and that no one's ever seen before, so I think he'll start to realise what kind of dad he's got."
