FORMER Coronation Street star Greg Wood has gone official with his new girlfriend on Instagram.
The 42-year-old, known for playing Rick Neelan in the ITV soap, looked very different from his days on the cobbles as he posed for a selfie with the blonde beauty.
Greg rocked salt and pepper hair which he style back and smiled proudly beside new girlfriend, Clair Nuttall.
The Manchester lass is an award winning documentary filmmaker having worked on a range of short films and TV shows.
It’s not known how long the pair have been dating, but he started appearing on her Instagram from May this year.
Greg captioned the loved-up post: “Today was a good day!! ”
His girlfriend replied with a red love-heart emoji.
Greg’s Corrie character, the evil loan shark Rick was killed by Gary Windass [Mikey North] in Coronation Street in early 2019.
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Rick is still sending shockwaves through the street after his body was finally discovered in March.
The character’s ex-wife Laura [Kel Allen] falsely confessed to the murder in a bid to protect Gary – who she has asked to take legal guardianship of her and Rick’s daughter Kelly [Millie Gibson].
Gary killed the villain in self-defence and he managed to hide his grizzly secret for over a year before things began to unravel.
Greg Wood is so good at playing the villain, he’s done it in Corrie as Rick Neelam and Hollyoaks as Trevor Royle.
Greg joined Corrie as Rick in 2009 for a short time, before popping up again briefly in 2012.
But then, in 2013, went over to Hollyoaks to play gangster Trevor – where he remained until 2016, causing havoc across the village.
In 2019, he went back to Corrie, but his character was sone killed off.
Since then, Greg was cast in a leading role in The Best Man with the Walnut Street Theatre.
He has since joined the cast of Sky comedy Brassic alongside fellow Corrie alum, Michelle Keegan.
Greg will play the role of Barry McDonoagh, who is part of a new family being introduced in series four.
And Greg’s personal life is just as dramatic as his soap characters.
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In 2015, Sheridan Smith revealed she’d dumped Greg and suggested his Hollyoaks co-star Tamara Wall may have had something to do with it.
The Sun on Sunday reported Greg’s ex-wife Catherine had suggested an affair with Tamara – who plays Grace Black on the show – was the woman at the centre of THEIR split too. Tamara denied this was the case.
