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1st March 2020
12:56pm GMT

“A coach driver at my children’s school stopped me the other day and said, ‘It’s a good job my wife isn’t driving this bus. She’d have run you over.’
“Being disliked comes with the territory. I don’t mind if people hate him. I think they should, as long as they’re not hating Ian. They know that I’m not like that.”
He added that Geoff killing Yasmeen's chicken is a "turning point" in the storyline, as Geoff "starts to enjoy his cruelty in some twisted, perverse way."
“I’m finding it hard and there are uncomfortable scenes, such as when he pushed his phone into Yasmeen’s face to film her. I have to put Geoff in a box and open it when I need it," the actor added. "[But] if this storyline gives just one viewer the opportunity to recognise they’re in that sort of relationship and do something about it, then we’ve done a good job.”