Exclusive: Coronation Street star Martin Hancock on bigger stories for Spider
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Coronation Street star Martin Hancock has promised bigger stories for his character Spider Nugent after his recent on-screen absence.
Late last month, Spider and his girlfriend Toyah Habeeb began appearing on the ITV soap again after a two-month break from our screens.
Spider had played a key role in the show's far-right extremism storyline at the start of the year, helping to bring Griff Reynolds and his criminal associates to justice in his role as an undercover police officer.
Many of the characters involved in this story then disappeared for a while, giving other plots a chance to take centre stage.
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Speaking exclusively to Digital Spy on the red carpet at the British Soap Awards, Martin teased: "There's a few things coming up [for Spider] now. The far-right story has kind of gone – or maybe it hasn't!
"There's some stuff from Spider's past, which is going to come through. There's some quite big storylines coming up."
Asked about Max Turner's release from the Secure Training Centre after his involvement with Griff's gang, Martin continued: "I think Spider has an open mind. He wants the best for Max. He wants Max to turn a corner, but whether Max does, well that's up to him."
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Martin also praised the change in his character since he returned last year.
He laughed: "It's really interesting. If you'd said to me a few years ago that Spider would come back as an undercover police officer, I'd have been surprised!
"But it's really interesting and they've done it really well. It makes sense as well, why he's done it. Because what do you do when you become an older protestor? There's two ways you can go. You can either become part of that system and try to change the system, or carry on outside it. He chose to step inside to change it."
Coronation Street airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX.
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