Fans reckon Roy Cropper may soon find himself trapped in a love triangle for the first time in almost 30 years. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that David Neilson is a Coronation Street legend.
The actor has spent an incredible 28 years playing the ITV soap's much-loved cardigan-wearing café owner, having made his debut on the cobbles back in July 1995. He started out living in the Crimea Street flats alongside fellow tenant Deirdre Barlow.
He ended up working at Jim's Café in Rosamund Street but after a year, Roy bought Alma Baldwin's majority share of the business and renamed it Roy's Rolls, as it still remains today. Roy was initially a 'secondary character', but was given a more prominent role in 1997.
