Max Turner

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Max Turner is a fictional character and former main character in Coronation Street. He first appeared in 2010 and had a reoccurring role until 2021 where he became an on and off antagonist until 2023 when he became a central character until his departure in 2025.

He was portrayed by Harry McDermott from 2010 to 2020 and by Paddy Bever from 2021 onwards.

Biography[]

He is son of Kylie Platt and Callum Logan, adoptive son of David Platt, and adoptive brother of Lily Platt. He originally started off as a naive young boy until 2021 when he became a troubled teenager who tried to sabotage his English teacher Daniel Osbourne's life by trying to get him in trouble by claiming he was sleeping with students at school. This later culminated in an attempt to spike his drink at a school dance but accidentally spiked Amy Barlow instead. He was later groomed into a far right gang by it's leader Griff Reynolds after he rescued him from bullies who'd being taunting Max for months, Max later began to exhibit extremely racist Islamophobic views. However, he later came to his senses when he saw that they were going to attempt to blow up a Christmas market. However, the damage was done as Max was later arrested for incitement of violence after one his former bullies Blake Myers attempted to stage an attack at a refugee-drop in centre.

After being found guilty of incitement of violence, Max would spend a few months at STC where afterwards he sought to be a better person. However, he would later re-unite with his ex-girlfriend Lauren Bolton, who had previously had disappeared for months. It was later revealed that Joel Deering was behind it after he tried to cover up the fact he'd slept with her. Joel Deering was murdered by Lauren in self-defence after he tried to kill Max. Max was once again arrested after he attempted to get insurance money from the house in order to pay off the family's depths to Harvey Gaskell. He was imprisoned for 6 years and had to move way to Scotland to serve his sentence.

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