| rdfs:comment | - Simon Gregson was born on October 2, 1974 in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England as Simon Alan Gregory. He is an actor, known for Coronation Street (1960), Coronation Street: After Hours (1999) and Red Dwarf (1988). He has been married to Emma Gleave since November 13, 2010. They have two children.
- He was born Simon Allen Gregory, in Wythenshawe on 2nd October 1974 to a non-theatrical family, his father being a policeman and his mother a bank clerk. He has an older sister Tracey. He had had no acting experience whatsoever when Mervyn Watson and casting director James Bain from Granada Television called at his school (The Kingsway School in Cheadle) to find suitable candidates to play the McDonald twins. Nicholas Cochrane was in the same school but in the year above and he was selected for further auditions as he had some limited acting experience and had been an extra in a Granada programme. The fourteen-year old Simon was then chosen as he was a similar build to Nicholas.
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| abstract | - He was born Simon Allen Gregory, in Wythenshawe on 2nd October 1974 to a non-theatrical family, his father being a policeman and his mother a bank clerk. He has an older sister Tracey. He had had no acting experience whatsoever when Mervyn Watson and casting director James Bain from Granada Television called at his school (The Kingsway School in Cheadle) to find suitable candidates to play the McDonald twins. Nicholas Cochrane was in the same school but in the year above and he was selected for further auditions as he had some limited acting experience and had been an extra in a Granada programme. The fourteen-year old Simon was then chosen as he was a similar build to Nicholas. The actors who had already been cast as their on-screen parents, Charles Lawson and Beverley Callard, were asked to sit in on the final auditions of some thirty boys, an experience Beverley found nerve-wracking, and all the people there separately concluded that Simon and Nicholas were the right choice for the parts. He sat his GCSE's in 1991 after working with a tutor in the studios but his good fortune took a turn for the worse in the mid-1990s when he became addicted to cocaine. Granada suspended him for eighteen months while in the storyline his character was jailed. Simon overcame his addiction and returned to the programme, steadily becoming one its most popular characters. He also appeared in the 1999 spin-off special Coronation Street - After Hours. His interests include water skiing, speedboats and cars (of which he owns several) and in August 2007 he became a father for the first time when his girlfriend, Emma Gleave, gave birth to a son, Alfie. The couple have since had a second child, Harry, born in July 2009. In May 2015 one of Simon's pet dogs Cookie co-starred alongside him in Coronation Street as Rover. Later that year he took a break from the show due to depression. Simon took a break from the show which resulted in Steve being absent from November 2015 to May 2016. During this period Simon and his wife welcomed a third son in December 2015.
- Simon Gregson was born on October 2, 1974 in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England as Simon Alan Gregory. He is an actor, known for Coronation Street (1960), Coronation Street: After Hours (1999) and Red Dwarf (1988). He has been married to Emma Gleave since November 13, 2010. They have two children.
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