Will Mellor: ‘My dad was a bit of a Del Boy. He went to Strangeways for almost a year’

The actor on his ill-fated music career, a rumoured love child, and the project driving him up the wall Born in Stockport, Greater Manchester, Will Mellor, 50, joined Brookside at 16 and was cast as Jambo in Hollyoaks in 1995.

He appeared in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Line of Duty, and was a regular in Coronation Street from 2021. His recent dramas are Mr Bates vs the Post Office and A Woman of Substance; his factual programmes include Convictions Gone Bad.…