Will Mellor has recalled the moment he was slapped in the face by a soap watcher.
And the other time he had a packet of crips slung at him in a pub.
The actor is currently starring in Coronation Street as villainous drug lord Harvey Gaskell.
Will, 45, is set to be part of a massive week of episodes of the ITV soap and appeared on This Morning to talk about them.
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But he also spoke about his past experiences having been on TV since the 90s, starting in Children's Ward before moving on to Hollyoaks and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.
"People do believe what your characters do in soaps," he told hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary.
"People always shout at you in the streets and that, but years ago, I did Brookside and I was in that when I was about 17 and my character Paul he had a passion wagon with a mattress in the back – a lovely character.
"Anyway, Paul got a girl pregnant when she was sixteen and he legged it back to Manchester after finding out. He left her there in the lurch.
"So, after that aired, I’m walking with my dad where I used to live and this elderly lady is walking towards me.
"She started to confront me, and then all of a sudden she hit me right across the face."
As the hosts gasped and laughed, Will continued: "Then she shouted ‘you’ve left that poor girl pregnant. You better get back there and look after her – she's pregnant and she’s only sixteen’.
"I went, ‘It’s not real, what’s wrong with you?’ Honestly, my ear."
Alison then asked: "What about a bag of crisps, someone chucked a bag of crisps at you, didn’t they?"
Laughing, the Stockport-born star explained: "Yeah, I was with my dad at the time we went to Spain, I ordered two pints for me and my dad and a packet of crisps hit me in the face.
"The landlord just launched them at me. I was like, 'You can have that one."
Will has previously said how his Corrie fan mum, Shirley, had waited years for him to appear in the soap.
Recalling when he got his first acting job aged 12, Will said his mum told his agent that she just wanted to see her son on Corrie.
"She’s waited 33-years, but I’m finally on it. I’m playing a baddie, but at least I’m on it," he said on This Morning.
But she also had a word of warning for him.
"When I told her I was going to be playing a baddie, all she said was 'Well, as long as you don’t kill Ken'."
Will, who joined Corrie earlier this year, has also spoken about how it feels to be a baddie - and the pranks he plays on fans of the ITV soap.
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