ITV Coronation Street viewers figure out where they've seen Dean actor before

There's a new character on the street and he's causing problems for Abi Franklin and Kevin Webster. During Friday night's episode of the ITV soap, viewers saw Toyah Battersby marching Abi off to a meeting after seeing her downing a bottle of vodka at her son Seb's memorial in Victoria Gardens.

Upon returning to the street, Abi had a man in two and Toyah hurried over to see how the meeting went on who her new friend was, with the former drug addict telling her it was her new sponsor.

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Believing what she heard, Toyah headed off pleased with herself for helping her neighbour but Corrie fans knew that Dean was in fact a drug dealer and wasn't helping Abi in the way Toyah thought - or hoped. Then during Sunday night's trip to the cobbles, to make up for the soap being cancelled in the week for football coverage, viewers saw Abi and Dean going on another drug and booze bender.

But a furious Kevin Webster arrived home to find Dean giving Abi a massage on the sofa after she complained she was suffering from a bad back despite appearing in chronic pain.

The mechanic, however, was soon left disgusted when he found a substance on a family photo and blasted his wife for "chopping up lines on a picture of my son," leading her to hit back: "Once a junkie, always a junkie. You knew what you were getting in to," before begging Kevin for his forgiveness.

But Abi's downward spiral continued as Kevin told her they were over, and Dean soon appeared at the back door and the pair continued to take drugs together at No.13.

And not much later, Dean was seen nicking the keys to Kev's garage and went to steal one of their cars but Abi spotted