Coronation Street icon Sean Wilson played one of the soap's most enduring characters. Joining the cobbles when he was an 18-year-old, he was a regular on the street and at the centre of some of the show's most gripping storylines from 1985 until his departure in 2005.
Sean chose a very different career path after his nurse character left Weatherfield. After discovering a passion for cheesemaking, he set up the award-winning Saddleworth Cheese Company, based in the Lancashire's Trough of Bowland, in 2009. His business has gone from strength to strength, with his products stocked in Asda and Tesco.
Sean, who was inspired to cook in the eighties by celebrity chef Keith Floyd, would host dinner parties for his Coronation Street castmates, has worked in Michelin-starred restaurants and has presented his own Channel 5 cookery show, Great Northern Cookbook, with an accompanying book.
