It seems a lot of a soap stars are emigrating to BBC surgery soap opera Doctors, including a bundle of Coronation Street stars.

Ex-Coronation Street star Matthew Crompton will be making a guest appearance on Doctors as a Leo – a husband with fertility problems – in a fortnight and will be caught up in an adultery story line when he discovers his wife is pregnant. Knowing he cannot have children, Matthew’s character is then forced to find out the truth about his wife’s one night stand on holiday and the pair are then faced with two things – fixing their marriage and making a decision about keeping the illegitimate child.

Corrie favourite Ian Reddington, who played Vernon in Weatherfield for many years will be seen in Doctors in October and is rumoured to play a sleazy and untoward businessman named Tim, for just one episode.

Tim and Dr Jimmi Clay are said to meet at a funeral of a mutual friend, but when Tim becomes involved in a fight with a homeless man, Jimmi tends to his injuries to only learn some home truths about this nasty entrepreneur.

It also seems that two characters are leaving the winding streets of soap village Emmerdale for appearances on the UK soap Doctors this September, as Lorraine Chase and Caroline Strong join the soap for one episode.
The pair who played Steph Forsythe and Melanie Doland will appear in an episode revolved around a prostitute and a grieving daughter.
After daughter Melanie Webber (played by Caroline Strong) finds secrets in her dead father’s diary, she discovers he wasn’t who she quite thought he was and her discoveries lead her to a woman named Carol – a prostitute played by Lorraine Chase.

This summer is set to introduce a number of famous soap opera faces to beloved surgery drama Doctors.