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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Les battersby - The Untold Story

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

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

‘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

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The ITV Coronation Street stars who have 'quit' the soap only to return from Sarah Barlow to Spider Nugent

There are many current Corrie stars who have once left the soap - some more than once

Manchester Evening News

Les Battersby actor Bruce Jones' life after Corrie - homelessness to Hollywood co-stars

Bruce Jones, best known for his stint playing Les Battersby, has had an eventful life away from the Coronation Street cameras. From homelessness to his close bond with a former co-star, we take a look at his life away from the cobbles

Daily Mirror

Ex-Coronation Street star Charles Dale swapped acting for 2 surprisingly normal day jobs

The star - who played Dennis Stringer in the soap from 2000 to 2002 - can now be found working behind a counter

Manchester Evening News

Janice Battersby actress accused of taking swipe at ITV Corrie as Spider returns to the cobbles

Former Coronation Street star Vicky Entwistle is thrilled that Martin Hancock will be back on our screens as Spider Nugent

Manchester Evening News

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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

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

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

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

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?

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