Andy Morgan is Coronation Street's latest baddie - and he's based on a Shipley villain.

Actor Steve Huison plays the seedy criminal in a baseball cap who this week terrorises the Nelsons - the family in hiding under a police witness support scheme.

Steve, 40, says of his Corrie character: "He's based on a villain who I see around.

"My character is mean-looking and has an outwardly grubby texture about him. Not the kind of person you'd want to spend time with!"

Steve, formerly Lomper in the hit movie Full Monty, had his ears pierced, didn't shave for 10 days and stained his teeth with varnish to get in character.

"I try to make every character different, it is the job that I do," said Steve who lives in Shipley with his fiancee.

He settled in the town seven years ago after driving through, spotting the house for sale and deciding to make a bid for it.

He co-runs the Shoestring Theatre Company in the town and in June it is staging a play around the region called Reading the Signs.

It is about mental illness but he said it is " very entertaining with a strong comedy element."

"It is a subject close to my heart. Mental illness is the last taboo. I know friends and family who been affected by it. If everyone delves into their backgrounds there is usually some history of it. It affects most people."

Later in the year he appears in Chaos and Cadavers a movie about a couple whose honeymoon coincides with an undertakers' conference, also starring Rik Mayall.

Huison, who was born in Leeds, plays a psychopathic Irish undertaker wanting to seize power.

Having seen the previews, he said: "I am very pleased with it. I have done my job."

He is enjoying life after Full Monty when he toured the world in a whirlwind of publicity.

"I don't miss that. Life just goes on. There was a period when we were getting whisked around. That has died down and life is interesting. I never know what is going to be next."

But for now he's on the screens as bad boy Andy Morgan.

"The actors in Coronation Street are a really nice bunch - a great gang," he says.

"They turn it out quickly. We did about nine scenes in three hours. Movies can take a day to film three minutes!"

It's his second time on the Street. The last time, about five years ago, he was an estate agent who went to measure up the Caf - then owned by Gail and Alma.

He recalls: " I went upstairs and was never seen again. Now I've come back down as Andy Morgan. My mates are always having me on about it!