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Coronation Street sign up huge Peaky Blinders star as part of killer Harvey Gaskell's dark storyline to free himself from jail


A Peaky Blinders star is set to join the cobbles.

Actor Ian Peck, who played gangster Curly in the Birmingham BBC period drama, is set to join the cast of Coronation Street and will appear on screens next month. Ian will portray a terminally-ill man called John Perry, who will confess to the murder of Natasha Blakeman as part of real killer Harvey Gaskell's ( Will Mellor) elaborate plot to free himself from jail. Ian is set to star in a couple of episodes, which will see Harvey and Adam Barlow (Sam Robertson) come up with the plan to make John the fall guy so he can be freed, reports The Sun.

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