Coronation Street to star real-life veteran who lost a leg in Afghanistan to aid Jack Webster

He's a real hero

Coronation Street

by Emma Dodds |
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Coronation Street bosses have revealed that a real-life war veteran who lost a leg in Afghanistan will be joining the cast to aid Jack Webster's recovery after losing his foot to sepsis. Former Marine Cassidy Little will be appearing in episodes later this month as a Paralympic athlete who will be a mentor to little Jack.

The character of Jack, played by 12-year-old Kyran Bowes, tragically lost his foot after suffering from sepsis in storylines which aired in July this year. Viewers praised scenes in which his dad Kevin, played by Michael Le Vell, had to make the gut-wrenching decision to have his football-mad son's leg amputated.

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Cassidy lost his leg below the knee in 2011 whilst on a tour in Afghanistan, and turned to acting to cope with his injuries. A source told The Sun, "It’s a real honour to have Cassidy joining the cast.

"He’s an inspiration and has really helped everyone with the research for the forthcoming story involving Jack and his family."

Swipe through to see this week's Coronation Street spoilers...

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WEEK 38: Coronation Street Spoilers - 17-21 September 2018

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Imran's double date

Toyah and Leanne both arrange a night out with Imran, unaware that he's seeing them both. Adam knows that Imran should make a decision about the sisters, so does the sensible thing and advises him to make a pros and cons list of the women to help him decide. What, you are wondering, could possibly go wrong with such a foolproof plan?

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Somehow, SOMEHOW, Imran gets caught out

Sally finds a list of names that Imran dropped in the cafe (seriously, Imran and his bloody lists (doesn't he know about iPhone notes)) so she goes to the solicitors' office to return it. There, she overhears Adam advising Imran that he can't keep sleeping with both sisters, and Imran saying he's lost a list of witnesses for Duncan's case - the list Sally happened to find earlier. What is she to do with her new information? Enter: Power Sally. She decides to tell the sisters the truth and they teach Imran a lesson by going along with it. They all go for lunch and the champagne flows as the sisters promise Imran the night of his life - the big fool.

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Imran comes back to Earth

When the shoe is on the other foot and Imran finds a pros and cons list about him (made by Leanne and Toyah), he takes his anger out on Leanne and fires her. This, though, doesn't last long, as Adam tells Imran to give Leanne her job back because the filing system is in a state. Imran, Toyah and Leanne meet in the bistro, with the sisters forcing Imran to apologise for what he did. But, of course, it isn't all plain sailing as Leanne can't help but notice the way that Toyah looks at Imran - perhaps there are feelings there still...

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Sally's discovery

Nervous for her pretrial hearing, Sally goes in search of Sophie at no.13, but walks in on her and Paula together. She calls one of the witnesses on Imran's list that she found earlier. Paula tells her that she can get in serious trouble for it, and Sally promptly sacks her for chiming in. Just to put the cherry on the cake, she also tells Sophie that she doesn't want her in court either. Tim, naturally, is very worried.

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Solo Sally in court

Sally goes to court with only a very worried Tim and Gina to support her. Imran can't help but see the funny side of Sally representing herself in court, and promptly tells the judge that she harassed a witness. Imran the big snitch.

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Terrible Tim

Later, realising the error in her ways, Sally phones Sophie, asking her to reinstate Paula. Tim has gone from worried to angry, first at Sophie, then at Imran when he learns that he threatened Sally over exposing his affair with Toyah and Leanne.

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Gina offers support to Tim

Sally is upset when Tim tells her of his argument with Imran. Back at home, Gina comforts Tim and reassures him that he was just looking out of his wife, doing nothing wrong. Poor old Tim.

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DNA means Definitely Not Accurate for Hannah

After having doubts last week about the reliability of the DNA results that Jim brought with him, Steve wants to try it for himself.Hannah and Steve provide swabs for a DNA test, but Jim and Hannah trick Steve.

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Hannah's collapse could be coming sooner rather than later

Later, Hannah pretends to collapse after hearing that Liz still has money from her sale of the Rovers. Liz asks Hannah to move in with her following this, so that the can look after her. Tracy isn't so convinced. Jim questions whether of not he and Hannah are actually going to go through with their play, and if they're going too far. Hannah asks if Jim still has feelings for Liz, sensing his uncertainty about their evil rouse.

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Poor Simon

Tyler and his friends steal Simon's bag and rip up his homework. Peter seeks out and confronts Vicky, Tyler's mum, but she makes it clear that she is blaming Simon for her son being in prison. Uh oh. It gets worse still for Peter when he find's that Carla has given Vicky a job at the factory.

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Vicky wins this round

Despite Peter's protests, Carla keeps Vicky on in her job when Beth and Kirk both call in sick. Looks like she's here to stay, Peter.

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Let bygones be bygones

Peter tells Simon that he's not going to rest until Vicky is sacked, but when Simon explains that will only make matters worse, he sees the light. He tells Vicky that she can work at the factory if she calls off Tyler and his mates. Carla is confused by his sudden change of heart, but at least he isn't on the hunt for her to get the sack anymore. But: with things at the factory no better, Peter looks too buying the old snooker hall on Victoria Road.

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Dancing queen

Peter shows Steve and Tracy an article about a castle that they booked for their wedding being destroyed in a fire. Steve tries his hardest to act disappointed - you can image how that goes. Later, Steve is left embarrassed when Abi and Mary make fun of him at a wedding dance class. When he storms out Abi offers to help him. See, who said storming out doesn't ever get you anywhere?

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Evil Evelyn at it again

Eevlyn's proving to be quite the difficult housemate. When taking part in the Rovers quiz she upsets her team by getting the tie break question wrong. To be fair to the old girl, we've all been there. Liz thinks it may be a good idea for her to live somewhere else, but Tyrone has other ideas. Elsewhere, Evelyn is interested to find out that Tyrone was once engaged to Maria. He's disappointed to learn that all the photos of his mum were lost in a house fire.

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Honest work for Ronan's son

Ronan, Drug Dealer Ronan, corners Adam and explains that his son is coming out of Youth Offenders soon and he needs to find a job. Now when a drug dealer corners you like that you usually do what he wants, so Adam manages to persuade Michelle to give Ronan's son, Cormac, a job washing up at the Bistro.What could go wrong?

Although Coronation Street haven't yet confirmed the appearance, 36-year-old Cassidy appeared in an interview with CBC News, revealing that he'll be in the show for a total of six episodes.

He told CBC's Here & Now programme, "When you get calls like that, you don't think you're going to get the role, but that doesn't mean you're not going to give 100% during the audition tape."

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Of his character, he said, "I've come in as a military buddy of another character and kind of trains Paralympic athletes, and I've come in as the guy who grabs life by the horns and shakes really hard, and then shakes really hard, and then tries to rub that attitude off a little bit, by proxy, onto Jack."

In other Coronation Street news, Weatherfield is set to be rocked by a drug-related death soon after Ryan Connor's friend Cormac tragically overdoses before a night out with Bethany Platt.

This week, Sally Webster has more than her fair share of drama to contend with as she ends up in the court room alone following a fraud issue. Elsewhere, Steve McDonald is preparing for his THIRD wedding to Tracy Barlow - but it seems as though his wedding plans are going from bad to worse.

And over in Walford, EastEnders viewers were shocked to see the return of Ruby Allen after 12 years - but there's a sinister storyline in store for her as she confides in former pal Stacey Slater that she was raped.

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