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"Former Coronation Street star Roy Barraclough has ruled out returning to the soap. The 78-year-old actor is keen to continue acting but doesn&amp;#039;t want to reprise his role as Rovers Return landlord Alec Gilroy in the soap. &amp;quot;You can&amp;#039;t go back and recreate it, because it was a special time on the Street,&amp;quot; Barraclough told What&amp;#039;s on TV. &amp;quot;It was heavily focused on comedy back then and all that has changed. &amp;quot;You could be a bit of a caricature if you went back now.&amp;quot; Barraclough made his debut in Coronation Street in 1972 and last appeared on the ITV show in 1998. He currently stars in BBC One drama Last Tango in Halifax. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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