Corrie's Nigel Pivaro hopes Terry will change

Corrie's Nigel Pivaro hopes Terry will change
Corrie's Nigel Pivaro hopes Terry will change (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Coronation Street star Nigel Pivaro has said he has not given up hope that his character Terry Duckworth may turn over a new leaf. The 52-year-old actor is due to return to Weatherfield this week as Terry, and is set to cause trouble for his son Tommy (Chris Fountain) whom he gave away as a baby. Howver Nigel admitted he would like to see a different side to him. "I always hope that at some point there is a turn in Terry but there would have to be a logic to it," he said. "Terry doesn't go through life wanting to be bad, he just has to be bad because of circumstance, but circumstances can change. "Whatever happens to Terry, I want to be there when it does because I've put so much into him." The actor - who has recently been working as a journalist and documentary presenter - admitted that it was odd being back in the street without Bill Tarmey and Liz Dawn, who played his parents Jack and Vera, and whose characters have both died since he left. "I'm already missing three or four stalwarts that were here the last time I was on set," he said. "I still see Bill. I actually went to his 50th wedding anniversary the other day but it's strange without him here. I keep expecting him to rear up behind me and tap me on the shoulder, script in hand."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.