{"id":819769,"date":"2026-10-31T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819769\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T13:00:12","slug":"will-mellor-my-dad-was-a-bit-of-a-del-boy-he-went-to-strangeways-for-almost-a-year-life-and-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819769\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Mellor: \u2018My dad was a bit of a Del Boy. He went to Strangeways for almost a year\u2019 | Life and style"},"content":{"rendered":"

Born in Stockport, Greater Manchester, Will Mellor, 50, joined Brookside at 16 and was cast as Jambo in Hollyoaks in 1995. He appeared in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Line of Duty, and was a regular in Coronation Street from 2021. His recent dramas are Mr Bates vs the Post Office and A\u00a0Woman of Substance; his factual programmes include Convictions Gone\u00a0Bad. On 5\u00a0November his memoir, Where There\u2019s a Will: My\u00a0Story<\/a>, is published. He is married with two children and lives in Buckinghamshire.<\/p>\n

What is your greatest fear?
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Letting my family down.<\/p>\n

Describe yourself in three words
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Full of energy.<\/p>\n

What would your superpower be?
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Hindsight.<\/p>\n

What makes you unhappy?
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Being alone.<\/p>\n

What do you most dislike about\u00a0your\u00a0appearance?
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My bent nose and my ears. They don\u2019t\u00a0stop growing, so I\u2019ve got a big nose and\u00a0big ears.<\/p>\n

If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would you choose?
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I\u2019d like to see my dad again, just to hug him. It was Covid when he passed away and I never got to say goodbye.<\/p>\n

Who would play you in the\u00a0film\u00a0of\u00a0your\u00a0life?
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Ryan Gosling.<\/p>\n

What is your most unappealing habit?
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Picking my nose. I can\u2019t help it because it\u2019s bent and I get stuff stuck up there.<\/p>\n

Which book are you ashamed not\u00a0to\u00a0have read?
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I don\u2019t really read books, so all of them.<\/p>\n

What is the worst thing anyone\u2019s\u00a0said\u00a0to you?
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When I was doing music, somebody came up to me and said, \u201cYou\u2019ve changed.\u201d It was the worst thing and the best thing \u2013 because I left the record industry. It was not for me and I\u2019d become somebody I didn\u2019t like.<\/p>\n

Would you choose fame or anonymity?
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I\u2019ve been an attention-seeker since I\u00a0was a kid, so I\u2019d choose fame.<\/p>\n

What or who is the greatest love\u00a0of\u00a0your life?
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My wife, Michelle. I\u2019ve been with her\u00a0for 27 years. We\u2019re a great team and\u00a0have two amazing children.<\/p>\n

Which phrase do you most overuse?
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\u201cYou can\u2019t make an omelette without breaking eggs.\u201d I keep thinking it because I\u2019ve been having my house renovated for the past six months and\u00a0it\u2019s driving me up the wall.<\/p>\n

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What has been your biggest\u00a0disappointment?
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I would have liked to have made the Strictly final [he got to the semi-final].<\/p>\n

If you could edit your past, what\u00a0would you change?
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There was a lady who made out that she\u2019d had my child, so the girl went to school telling people that her dad was on TV. When we did the DNA test, she found out she wasn\u2019t mine. I\u00a0feel sorry for her because she\u2019d been lied to, and I wish I could change that.<\/p>\n

How often do you have sex?
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A healthy amount.<\/p>\n

What do you consider your greatest\u00a0achievement?
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Having a stable family.<\/p>\n

What has been your closest brush\u00a0with the law?
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Because my dad was in prison when I was a kid, he made sure that wasn\u2019t a place that I was ever going to go. He\u00a0was a bit of a Del Boy \u2013 so dodgy MOTs, stolen stuff. He went to Strangeways for almost a year and left\u00a0me and my mum and my four sisters unprotected, and he hated every second.<\/p>\n

Would you rather have more sex,\u00a0money or fame?
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All of the above.<\/p>\n

How would you like to be remembered?
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With a smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Born in Stockport, Greater Manchester, Will Mellor, 50, joined Brookside at 16 and was cast as Jambo in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-819769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}