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Here’s where you know the Corrie copper from!

He was seen grilling Abi this week

Occasionally faces pop up in dramas and soaps and they look familiar… but we can’t quite place them and don’t know their names.

If the detective grilling Abi in this week’s Corrie left you scratching your heads, worry no more.

Abi Coronation Street
Abi found herself in a familiar scenario (Credit: ITV)
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DC Hough interrogated Abi after she was arrested for trashing Tracy’s flower shop, an act of vandalism actually carried out by son Seb.

The detective’s line of questions was met by several stubborn “no comment” comebacks from Abi.

DC Hough Coronation Street
Abi had ‘no comment’ for DC Hough (Credit: ITV)

Now, if the scene made you want to stick the kettle on and make an evening coffee, there could have been some subliminal business occurring.

Nescafe advert
Time for a coffee break? (Credit: Nescafe)

The actor Philip Hill-Pearson also appeared in a Nescafe ad; the one where a man stands in front of an audience of thousands and asks everyone who doesn’t know his nickname at school to sit down!

Phillip in the Nescafe advert (Credit: Nescafe)
Phillip in the Nescafe advert (Credit: Nescafe)

Philip is no novice to soaps, though, having appeared in Corrie as the same character before, and Emmerdale as Jared, one-time friend of Amy Wyatt, in 2011.

Philip Hill-Pearson, Emmerdale
Philip in Emmerdale (Credit: ITV)

He also appeared in Doctors playing a couple of bit parts.

Phillip and Sally Carman, who plays Abi, have appeared in the same show before.

Sally Carman Shameless
Sally as Kelly in Shameless (Credit: Channel 4)

He was in the seventh series of Channel 4’s Shameless in 2013, which Sally starred in as Kelly Maguire from 2005.

Philip Hill-Pearson
Philip also appeared in Shameless (Credit: Channel 4)

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Philip, 31, played Bruce Donnelly.

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Kaggie Hyland
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