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Coronation Street star quits the show after just seven months

Coronation Street star has quit the show after just seven months.

The 39-year-old actor who played Rowan Cunliffe made his debut on the cobbles earlier this year.

Emrhys Cooper’s character, Rowan, is a villainous cult leader who has made waves on the soap since joining the series.

Rowan preyed on fellow character Leanne and manipulated her into confessing things which he secretly recorded and used against her.

According to The Sun, Rowan will be exiting the soap and heading to St Helen’s Theatre Royal for pantomime this Christmas.

Emrhys has landed the huge role of Prince Frederick in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

A source told the outlet: “Emrhys has been a great addition to the street but he does play a dastardly villain and so his story always had a beginning, a middle and an end.”

“Rowan’s going to get even worse over the next few months and the story’s nowhere near it’s ending just yet but he will be saying goodbye to the cobbles.”

“The question is whether he gets his comeuppance or how many more lives he destroys before he leaves?”

Speaking about how his role in the soap has made him closer to his actor father, Emrhys confessed: “This role has actually brought me and my dad closer. I have asked him question and I asked him advice, it’s really great.”

“This role is particularly important to me because I hope to spread awareness about the dancers of these types of characters and organisations.”

“My goal is to make it as truthful as possible.”

Opening up about his parents’ previous involvement in a cult, he added: “It was actually kind of a wellness, fitness, more of a spiritual cult. And as they got further and further in, and gave more money, it became more sinister.”

“Basically, the cult tried to separate my parents by doing these rather sexual exercises with other people, which my Dad was a little alarmed by because he was having to grope this woman and my Mum was having to do this thing with someone else.”

“So they kind of cottoned on that this exercise programme was not all it was cracked up to be.”

He added: “They got out relatively unscathed. But they’ve been in and out of different kinds of things. They’re always looking for alternative options.”

“And they are intelligent people, they’re just, unfortunately, very open-hearted and many times they’ve been taken advantage of.”

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