Returning Coronation Street star Marc Bayliss has teased there will be an even darker side to his character Rob Donovan this time around. The Corrie villain will make a surprise reappearance on Thursday’s episode of the ITV soap when his son Bobby Crawford (Jack Carroll) goes to visit him in prison.
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Rob was jailed back in 2014 for the murder of Tina McIntyre (Michelle Keegan), who he pushed off the builder’s yard balcony. With his sister Carla Connor (Alison King) in need of a kidney transplant after the damage caused by her recent case of sepsis, Bobby visits Rob in the hope he will agree to be a donor.
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Teasing how Rob has changed since viewers last saw him during a guest appearance in 2017, Marc says: ‘Rob is a very different person. It’s been seven years since we last saw him. That’s a lot of life. It’s a lot of time to be in the prison system as well.
‘Whether his core nature has changed or not, whether he’s made changes for the greater good, is yet to be seen.’. He continued: ‘He’s not had the easiest of times in prison, as I don’t think anyone would do for that amount of time, particularly someone who did what he did to a young woman. It’s not something that he’s had an easy journey with, and it’s something that he has huge regrets over with the way that everything played out.
