The Latest Breaking News from Les Battersby

Coronation Street star calls show ‘tightly gripped cult’ and slams the soap’s ‘controlling environment’

‘When I finally left we cried,’ the actor said

The Independent UK · Dec 2, 2024

Coronation Street's Les Battersby actor takes up wrestling at 71 in surprising career change

His character was well-known for his encounters with the other residents of the ITV soap having been billed on introduction as a ‘neighbour from hell’

Evening Standard · Feb 21, 2024

‘I fear a paper will destroy me again’: Coronation Street’s Bruce Jones on murder, trauma and tabloid intrusion

He starred as Les Battersby in the soap but a close encounter with the Yorkshire Ripper and years of press attention led the star to depression and bankruptcy. Now, he is rekindling his love affair with acting – and stepping into the wrestling ring

The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024

Where Corrie's Les Battersby actor Bruce Jones is now 15 years after leaving soap

Actor Bruce Jones was on the ITV soap for a decade

Liverpool Echo · Apr 16, 2022

ITV Catchphrase: Real life of Coronation Street's Toyah Battersby actress Georgia Taylor - actual name, rarely seen famous partner and movie past

The actress, from Wigan, arrived onto the cobbles as part of the hell-raising Battersby family in 1997

Manchester Evening News · Apr 2, 2022

Corrie star details horror police questioning in connection to Yorkshire Ripper murder

Corrie legend Bruce Jones, who played taxi driver Les Battersby, found one of serial killer Peter Sutcliffe's victims while working on an allotment in the late 1970s

Daily Mirror · Feb 24, 2022

Former Corrie star Bruce Jones speaks about moment he discovered body of 'Yorkshire Ripper victim'

The Les Battersby actor features in a new series, Yorkshire Ripper: The Secret Murders, on ITV

Manchester Evening News · Feb 24, 2022

Where are Coronation Street's biggest stars of the '90s now?

Des, Andy, Raquel, Les - we saw them and more three times a week back then, but where are they now?

Wales Online · Jan 25, 2022