Remember Coronation Street’s Jamie Baldwin? Actor Rupert Hill looks unrecognisable 15 years later
Actor Rupert Hill departed the cobbles in 2007 and went on to marry his soap co-star Jenny Platt, who played Violet Wilson
HE was the Corrie cheeky chappy who stole the hearts of Leanne Battersby, Violet Wilson - and his STEP-MUM.
Like his grandfather Mike, Jamie Baldwin was certainly a hit with the ladies, which more often than not landed him in a spot of bother.
His steamy affair with dad Danny's wife Frankie (Debra Stephenson) was branded "sick" by many viewers, and Rupert admitted to not enjoying the level of fame that came with appearing in the ITV soap.
Unsurprisingly the controversial storyline all ended in tears, after Danny (Bradley Walsh) caught them in bed together and attacked Jamie.
The pair came to blows, resulting in Danny almost killing Jamie, after he was left unconscious in the canal.
Danny dived in to save him, but the pair never saw eye to eye again.
Apart from a brief comeback in 2011, Jamie has been absent from the cobbles since 2008, when he and girlfriend Violet (Jenny Platt) did a runner to London.
The couple took baby Dylan, who was fathered using Sean Tully's sperm - but they have since split up.
So what came next for actor Rupert Hill, who played the Baldwin bad boy?
In May 2013 he married his Corrie co-star and on-screen girlfriend Jenny Platt, after she gave birth to their daughter Matilda in April 2010.
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The couple live in Manchester, where Rupert co-owns four pubs - the Castle Hotel, Gulliver's, The Parlour and The Eagle Inn.
Rupert, now 43, has continued to act, picking up roles in The Bill, Doctors, Hollyoaks and Midsomer Murders, as well as a series of short films.
He also performed in the touring theatre production of the Full Monty alongside former Hollyoaks actor Gary Lucy.
The multi-talented star played guitar in the now defunct band Shepherd's Pi, which he formed with former Family Affairs co-stars Sam Stockman and Angela Hazeldine.
Rupert now fronts a new group called Biederbeck, who have performed various gigs in Manchester, London and at Rambsbottom Festival and Bestival on the Isle of Wight.
He's also had a drastic makeover as he is currently has short hair on the side and it is longer at the top and a manly beard.
But during lockdown, because of hairdressers being shut, he rocked much longer hair.
Rupert recently starred alongside Diana Vickers in horror flick Awaiting and has a new film - The Lookalike.
Most recently he's starred in Casualty, The Invisible and Four Lives.
Rupert loves to share what he gets up to with his fans on Instagram.
Over the weekend he enjoyed a long run and also celebrated six months of sobriety in January.
