Coronation Street star Jacob Roberts has spoken about the guilt he felt when meeting the family he never knew existed for the first time as he shared his own personal link to Kit Green's storyline.
Viewers of the ITV soap were first introduced to the police officer earlier this year after Bernie Winter went on a mission to find her long-lost son, Zodiac, who was later renamed Christopher when he was adopted.
When she found Kit, as she posed as a cleaner before rifling through his drawers, he lied and said he wasn't adopted but it was later confirmed that Bernie had found her long-lost son.
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He's since made things difficult for Bernie, even attempting to turn children Paul and Gemma Winter against her. But it's not just family matters that are making Corrie fans suspicious of Kit as he's been seen planting evidence in the Lauren Bolton case and now forcing Beth Tinker off the street after she tried to play him at his own game.
But coming into the role, Jacob could draw on some personal experience when it came to Kit's now-complicated family life. The soap star has shared how his mum was adopted and was close to appearing on the ITV show Long Lost Family when she was told by the council her birth mother had died.
"It was a strange one - they kept her brother and sister and let my mum go away," Jacob told the Manchester Evening News and other press. "She was going to go on Long Lost Family but the council got in touch with her and said, 'We've found your mum,' but unfortunately she'd passed away the year before. Then she went and met all her family
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