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'Coronation Street' star Charlie Condou quit for the sake of his children. The actor has two children Georgia, four, and two-year-old Hal with actress Catherine Kanter - via IVF treatment - and they split their time between their mother, and their father and his partner Cameron Laux. Charlie - who plays midwife Marcus Dent - has admitted hearing his daughter tell him she didn't want him to make the commute from London to Manchester for work made him decide to quit the soap. He told the Daily Mirror newspaper: ''It was just getting too difficult. Georgia is at an age now where she...

'Coronation Street' star Charlie Condou quit for the sake of his children. The actor has two children Georgia, four, and two-year-old Hal with actress Catherine Kanter - via IVF treatment - and they split their time between their mother, and their father and his partner Cameron Laux. Charlie - who plays midwife Marcus Dent - has admitted hearing his daughter tell him she didn't want him to make the commute from London to Manchester for work made him decide to quit the soap. He told the Daily Mirror newspaper: ''It was just getting too difficult. Georgia is at an age now where she...

Coronation Street star Charlie Condou has become a father for the second time after a female friend gave birth to his child through IVF. The openly gay actor, who plays Marcus Dent in the ITV soap, will bring up the baby boy with his boyfriend Cameron Laux and the child's biological mother Catherine Kanter. The couple are already parents to 2-year-old daughter Georgia Mae, also born to Kanter. Condou announced the news - as well as the baby's name - on Twitter on Wednesday (January 11), simply writing: "Happy Birthday Hal Condou." (more)...

Charlie Condou has revealed that he is delighted to have returned to Coronation Street, especially as part of a plot that mirrors his real life. Condou returned to the soap as Marcus Dent. The character has spent three years away but is now helping on-off boyfriend Sean Tully to look after his son Dylan, whom he fathered with Violet Wilson (Jenny Platt). The actor himself is bringing up daughter Georgia Mae with his boyfriend of four years Cameron Laux, along with the child's mother and long-time friend Catherine Kanter. On returning to the soap, Condou told the Sunday Mirror: "I think it's a great ­storyline. Obviously I would because of my personal situation, but I also think it's really relevant. "I feel like I'm on-trend all of a sudden! Elton and David have done it, and Rufus Wainwright and Ricky Martin. It's very ­fashionable (more)...