ITV Corrie's Michael Le Vell shares actual first soap as he gets emotional over career highs

Coronation Street star Michael Le Vell has spent more of his life on-screen in the ITV soap than he has off it. The actor made his debut as Kevin Webster in Weatherfield in 1983, a few months before his 19th birthday.

Upon his arrival onto the cobbles, Kevin moved in with Hilda Ogden and he soon picked up a job as a mechanic at Brian Tilsley's garage. His father, Bill, and sister, Debbie, soon follow followed him onto the street but he decided to stay when Bill remarried and moved to Southampton with Debbie.

And over the years we have seen the character at the centre of some of the long-running programme's biggest storylines - most notably his on-and-off relationship and marriage with Sally and his affairs with Natalie Horrocks and Molly Dobbs, which resulted in his son Jack being born.

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However, some may be surprised to know that this wasn't even Michael's first time on the Corrie cobbles. Speaking to the Manchester Evening News and other press, Michael said when asked if he ever thought he'd still be playing Kevin now: "No, absolutely not. I came in as Neil Grimshaw first, a paperboy, for a few episodes.

"Judi Hayfield [a casting director on Corrie at the time], when that finished she said, 'we'll find something else for you.'" He then revealed: "I wasn't actually up for Kevin Webster. I was in the corridor waiting to audition for a programme called Scully and then Judi walked past and went, 'Am I seeing you tomorrow for Kevin Webster' and I said, 'No', and she said, 'leave it with me.'"

Michael then explained that he did end up going back the next day for an audition and he got the job. However, it was only for 12