ONE of Coronation Street’s villains has made a shock comeback to the ITV soap and the actor shared a backstage snap.
Scott Anson has played far-right thug Reece Bolton on and off since October 2022.
On the long-running ITV soap, he exploited his own daughter Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton) to help Griff’s (Michael Condron) extremist gang.
He has now revealed that his character will appear on Coronation Street once again in a social media announcement.
The actor took to X – formerly known on Twitter – as he gushed about his upcoming return to the soap.
He posted a snap of an opened envelope from the commercial network which had his name and address emblazoned on it.
The contents included what looked like a script with a list of credits on the front as his name was emblazoned in a confidential watermark.
A welcome back was also included in the snap as one sheet of paper had the words, ‘Welcome to Coronation Street’.
His social media post read: “Bad boy Reece is back.”
Fans flocked to the post with excitement as one wrote: “Welcome back “”Home”” Scott…with so many spoilers these says i don’t know why they still print CONFIDENTIAL on the front of scripts…. ???”
“Yesss woah I’m happy to see this now. Welcome back Reece excited now,” excitedly stated a second.
A third sarcastically joked: “Ah! Welcome back! Great to see a friendly face on the telly again!”
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This comes almost a year after his first return to the cobbles when Lauren disappeared.
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Reece’s on-screen return comes as Max asked him for help in tracing his missing daughter.
Coronation Street continues on ITV1 and is available to stream on ITVX.