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10-24-2010, 01:34 PM
Coronation Street star Jack P Shepherd has called in police after receiving a number of letters and photographs from a man claiming to be his father.
According to The People, the letters have been given to Manchester detectives, who have issued the actor with a phone number to call if he sees anybody suspicious.
Shepherd, who plays David Platt, said: "It's scary. This man says he's a priest and is adamant he was my real dad. He keeps saying how proud he is of me and how he wants to get back in contact. In the end I asked Corrie to call in the police.
"This man is really odd. He's been sending old pictures of a young couple, saying it's him and my real mum when I was born. He seems obsessed, absolutely convinced he's my father. He said he had to give me up because he was a priest.
"I'm a dad, so I started to worry. You don't know what these kind of people will do. You don't want someone like that out there."
A show source added that the man has given the cast "the chills".
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According to The People, the letters have been given to Manchester detectives, who have issued the actor with a phone number to call if he sees anybody suspicious.
Shepherd, who plays David Platt, said: "It's scary. This man says he's a priest and is adamant he was my real dad. He keeps saying how proud he is of me and how he wants to get back in contact. In the end I asked Corrie to call in the police.
"This man is really odd. He's been sending old pictures of a young couple, saying it's him and my real mum when I was born. He seems obsessed, absolutely convinced he's my father. He said he had to give me up because he was a priest.
"I'm a dad, so I started to worry. You don't know what these kind of people will do. You don't want someone like that out there."
A show source added that the man has given the cast "the chills".
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