MY OWN MUM IS SCARED OF ME!

Viewers of Coronation Street and now the mash-up with Emmerdale have seen the scaffolder go from happily married dad to manipulator, and abusive bully - and now killer.

- CHRISTINE SMITH

The actor, 41, reveals his mum Angela told him: "Blimey you can be so scary on TV." Sisters Georgina and Charlotte are also longtime Corrie viewers.

James says of his family: "They know me better than anybody.

"They are very shocked at times to see me being so terrifying as Theo."

He adds: "Theo is now a tortured monster. At best, he is a narcissist, at worst, a sociopath." Viewers were horrified when Theo climbed back on to the burning minibus driven by vicar Billy Mayhew (Daniel Brocklebank) - not to save him but to clip his seatbelt back on to ensure he died in the explosion that followed.