Why did Coronation Street's Roy Cropper leave the cobbles and when did he return?
The cafe owner left the Corrie cobbles to look after his mum after she suffered an accident. Here's all you need to know about the storyline and when he returned.
Why did Roy Cropper leave Coronation Street and when did he come back?
Yes Roy left us, but not for good.
The good-natured guy was left torn between his pal Carla and his duties as a son when he received some very worrying news that his mum, Sylvia, was unwell and needed him to look after her.
Roy wanted to take care of his elderly mother and Carla who was recovering from major surgery, but Carla's dad, Johnny, promised him that he'd be there to take care of her and encouraged Roy to head to Sylvia’s.
While Johnny was happy to step up and take care of Carla and Aidan while they recovered, the news did not go down so well with his wife Jenny who was disappointed when Johnny tells her their plans to move to Spain needed to be put on ice for the time being.
Roy returned a few weeks later and had a dramatic scrap with Lewis Archer in the street.
He is now focussing on exposing the con artist and fake psychic Rosemary.
Roy has been played by actor David Neilson since 1995.
In November 2015, he took a three-month break from the soap to join a stage show and tread the boards and "recharge".
In a previous interview with the Corrie Blog, David revealed how he got the part as Roy Cropper.
He said: "My friend Stephen Mallatratt was writing for the show… we were at drama school together. He’d written one of the 6 episodes. He got a call from the producers saying ‘this character’s got this facility with language – you’ve written him a bit more downmarket than the others – can you just adjust it?’
"He was thinking about this guy and how completely inept he was and he thought of me! He rang casting and it was 5o’clock… and he said ‘have you cast this character?’ and they said ‘no, but we will tomorrow morning’.
"Now if he’d have been half an hour later it wouldn’t have happened because they’d all have gone home – if I’d have been doing a training film somewhere – or if he’d have written it right in the first place, this chance would never have come up.
"When I got there for this audition, or just an interview – there were all sorts of shapes and sizes – there were older people, fat ones, little ones and the one thing I realised was they didn’t know what they were looking for. So I got it and that was it.
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