Dev Alahan
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Devendra 'Dev' Alahan is a fictional character
in the UK television ITV
soap opera
, Coronation Street
. Portrayed by actor
Jimmi Harkishin
, the character first appeared onscreen during the episode airing on 10 November 1999.
with bandaged wrists, Dev exposes her lies by ripping off the bandages, revealing no cuts.
Some time later, Dev almost marries barmaid Geena Gregory (Jennifer James
), but her mother is unhappy about this situation. She pays Karen McDonald
(Suranne Jones
) to set him up and they are caught together in the flat. Although she forgives him on that occasion, Geena and Dev later split and she gets together with Joe Carter (Jonathan Wrather).
Dev saves shopworker Sunita Parekh (Shobna Gulati
) from an arranged marriage in India
and gives her a safe haven in the flat above the shop. Sunita develops feelings for Dev but he just sees her as a friend, though they later become involved. His other girlfriends include cruise ship hairdresser Debs Brownlow (Gabrielle Glaister
), and later Tracy Barlow
(Kate Ford
), who wrecks his flat after discovering he has no intention of marrying her. He also sleeps with Tracy's mother Deirdre, who he employs at the shop.
Dev later meets solicitor Maya Sharma
(Sasha Behar
), when on the rebound from Sunita, who chooses barman Ciaran McCarthy
(Keith Duffy
) over him. He sets up home with Maya, but when Sunita becomes seriously ill, Maya gets jealous of the amount of time he spends with Sunita and forces Dev to choose between them. Dev chooses Sunita, enraging Maya, and she smashes up the flat and sets Sunita up with an illegal immigration scam, and she is arrested at her wedding to Dev. Sunita is jailed but released when a taxi driver comes forward with information that implicates Maya. Maya is released on bail, and with murder in mind, she ties up Sunita and one by one sets fire to each of Dev's shops. When Dev arrives, she knocks him unconscious, and leaves them to die in the fire, but Ciaran McCarthy and Charlie Stubbs (Bill Ward
) save them.
Dev's marriage to Sunita flows smoothly for a while, and the couple are overjoyed to discover they are having twins, which causes Dev to sell his share of cab firm Streetcars to Lloyd Mullaney
(Craig Charles
) to buy a house for his expanding family. However, during 2005, Sunita takes in Amber Kalirai
(Nikki Patel
), daughter of one of his employees who is ill in hospital. Dev is uncomfortable with Amber in the flat, and Sunita discovers that Dev is Amber's father. He and her mother had had an affair years ago. However, Amber is just the tip of the iceberg. Dev has several daughters by women he has employed in all his shops. Sunita also discovers that Dev is a grandfather too.
Sunita is devastated by the secret and that Dev is happy having so little contact with his daughters and promptly leaves him. She allows him to be present when she gives birth to their twins, Asha and Aadi. While Dev is overjoyed (especially as Aadi is his first son), Sunita is unable to forgive him. Eventually, in January 2006, Sunita and the twins leave Dev for good, moving into the house Dev bought for them. Dev does see the twins occasionally.
The following February, Amber (who now knows the truth about her parentage) comes to stay with Dev as her mother is moving to Finland
with her new boyfriend but Amber wants to stay in Weatherfield. At first, Dev refuses to allow her to live with him, bitter about the part Amber played in his marriage breakdown, but eventually he thaws and allows her to move in.
On New Year's Eve 2007, Dev takes over from Bob as best man for Vernon Tomlin
(Ian Reddington
) at his wedding to Liz McDonald
(Beverly Callard) and is later hit by Jim McDonald
(Charles Lawson
), in the process of Jim beating Vernon.
In Summer 2008, Dev is upset after conversations with Tony Gordon
and Norris Cole
make him realise he is not really successful and just a simple man running a chain of shops. To compensate, he quickly gets a membership to a new golf club to make himself feel better. Dev goes for a round of golf with Vernon and by chance, they strike up a conversation with Prem Mandal, who gives Vernon some golf pointers. The trio later have a drink together at the golf club. After Prem leaves, Dev tells Vernon that Prem is a very successful businessman who runs his own cleaning business.
Dev then enters into an affair with Prem's wife, Nina Mandal, (an ex-Bollywood
star whom Dev once had a crush on), after going on a date with their friend, Lisa.
In August 2008, Dev buys a flat in the newly-finished Victoria Court. Dev becomes increasingly dissatisfied with his affair with Nina when he realises that he is not the first man she has cheated on Prem with. Nina blackmails Dev by threatening to tell Prem if he tries to end the affair but Dev meets their daughter and found himself torn between Tara
and Nina. Nina does not approve of Dev's attraction to Tara. Dev and Tara go on several dates despite Nina's disapproval and she threatens Dev that she will tell Prem about their affair. Dev, sick of Nina's threats, tells Prem himself, who wants nothing more to do with him. Unfortunately, Tara takes quite a shine to Dev and while he tries to discourage her, she interprets his actions as honourable. Eventually Dev visits Prem again and asks for his permission to date Tara but also Prem's promise that he won't tell Tara about Dev's affair with Nina. Dev asks this for Tara's sake and Prem agrees. Unfortunately, Tara tells Dev Nina had slept with her ex-boyfriend, but tells Tara that she is paranoid – her boyfriend wasn't really cheating on her.
In November 2008, he buys Jerry's Takeaway from Jerry Morton
and renames it "Prima Doner". Amber is so angry when she discovers what her father has done – taken away her boyfriend's home and livelihood – that she tells Tara about Dev's affair with Nina. This causes her and Dev to split up briefly but they reconcile, with some help from Amber. Dev's uncle, Umed Alahan, arrives for a visit in March 2009 and begins to work in the corner shop.
In April 2009, barmaid Poppy Morales sees Dev and Tara's family friend Lisa Dalton together the night Tara dumps him, following an argument about her art gallery, and she leaves. However, Poppy tells Tara about Dev and Lisa's one-night-stand. Tara confronts Lisa about her betrayal and tells her not to visit either her or Dev again. When she asks Dev what he did the night she left, he tells her he stayed in, watching television so Tara plots revenge for his betrayal. As part of this, she convinces Dev to let him be photographed naked. On 11 May 2009, in front of a huge crowd in the Street for an unveiling on urban degradation, Dev proposes to Tara. However, she rejects him before unveiling a huge photo of him naked with the words LIAR printed on it. Dev is humiliated and Tara leaves soon after. In October 2009, Umed returns to India.
In November 2009, Dev begins taking golf lessons to try to be better than Steve McDonald. However, Steve is doing exactly the same thing. Dev begins to charming his instructor, Bernie Sayers (Jennifer Hennessy
), although he notices her strange behaviour around Steve and she admits she is also giving him golf lessons. Dev and Bernie begin a brief relationship, which is tested when Dev discovers that ex-wife Sunita is engaged to a new man, Matt. Jealous, Dev is not happy and makes several poor attempts at trying to regain contact with his kids and Sunita. He apologises to Sunita and Matt and promises to act sensibly about the situation. However, his desire to win back his kids leads to Bernie breaking up with him when it is clear he wants Sunita back as well.
In January 2010, Dev is secretly pleased when Sunita tells him she has broken up with Matt. Realising that they are both meant to be together, Dev and Sunita agree to give their relationship another chance. They subsequently go on to buy Maria Connor (Samia Smith
)'s house. In December 2010, after the tram crash Becky McDonald
(Katherine Kelly
) steals money from their safe while Dev is in hospital after Sunita was injured in the crash. Later that month Dev says he will be able to find out who stole the money on the CCTV camera but discovers the camera was damaged but he said he was lucky he had insurance. In February 2011, he attends Peter and Leanne's wedding renewal.
On 21 February, Owen Armstrong
(Ian Puleston-Davies
) turns up in the corner shop, which has nearly been repaired. He asks for payment, which Dev can not afford. Owen then threatens Dev, saying he will tear apart the corner shop if he is not paid. Dev returns home, where Sunita reveals they have no money in their savings account, and she demands an explanation. Dev then says that the corner shop was not insured, and that he has not paid the mortgage on his home, meaning he could lose it. Sunita asks to see the business accounts, to find that Dev's shops elsewhere have not been doing well due to various reasons e.g. roadworks and rival shops being opened. Sunita suggests they sell all of Dev's shops apart from the kebab shop and the corner shop on the Street. Dev then breaks down, saying it took years to build up his empire. Dev then goes to Steve, explaining that the stolen money would've paid for the corner shop's repairs. He then asks Steve for £5,000, but Steve says he can't as he also owes money to Owen, and to Lloyd for the Street Cars accounts.
Fictional character
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in the UK television ITV
ITV
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soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
, Coronation Street
Coronation Street
Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
. Portrayed by actor
Actor
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Jimmi Harkishin
Jimmi Harkishin
James "Jimmi" Harkishin is an actor best known for his role as shop owner Dev Alahan in Coronation Street. He also featured in the film East is East and also Bhaji on the Beach....
, the character first appeared onscreen during the episode airing on 10 November 1999.
Character development
In December 2004, it was announced that Jimmi Harkishin had decided to take a break from Coronation Street following revelations about his private life. A spokesperson for Granada said Harkishin had been granted indefinite leave to sort out his "problems" and had their full support. Both Granada and Jimmi recognised that he has issues that he needed to sort out, he will be taking a break from the show while he seeks advice to deal with these problems.Storylines
Amy Goskirk (Jayne Ashbourne), a former girlfriend, follows Dev to Weatherfield, claiming he had promised to marry her. He denies this, claiming she is a mad woman, so she says she is expecting his child and pretends to attempt suicide. Upon her return to the Rovers Return InnRovers Return Inn
The Rovers Return Inn is a fictional public house on the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street. The Rovers Return occupies the corner of Coronation Street and Rosamund Street. Since the first episode it has been the principal setting in the show and many of its most memorable moments...
with bandaged wrists, Dev exposes her lies by ripping off the bandages, revealing no cuts.
Some time later, Dev almost marries barmaid Geena Gregory (Jennifer James
Jennifer James
Jennifer James, is an English actress born on 3 December 1977 in Billinge Higher End, Wigan, Greater Manchester.-Early life:...
), but her mother is unhappy about this situation. She pays Karen McDonald
Karen McDonald
Karen McDonald is a fictional character on the long-running British soap opera, Coronation Street from June 2000 to December 2004...
(Suranne Jones
Suranne Jones
Suranne Jones is an English actress. She first rose to prominence playing the role of Karen McDonald in ITV1's soap opera Coronation Street over a period of four years...
) to set him up and they are caught together in the flat. Although she forgives him on that occasion, Geena and Dev later split and she gets together with Joe Carter (Jonathan Wrather).
Dev saves shopworker Sunita Parekh (Shobna Gulati
Shobna Gulati
Shobna Gulati is an English actress, writer, and dancer of Indian origin, best known for playing Anita in Victoria Wood's Dinnerladies, and Sunita Alahan in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street from 2001 to 2006, a role to which she returned at the end of 2009...
) from an arranged marriage in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
and gives her a safe haven in the flat above the shop. Sunita develops feelings for Dev but he just sees her as a friend, though they later become involved. His other girlfriends include cruise ship hairdresser Debs Brownlow (Gabrielle Glaister
Gabrielle Glaister
Gabrielle Glaister is an English actress.-Early life:She was a school friend of Ben Elton at Godalming Grammar School on Tuesley Lane in Godalming, Surrey; Glaister was in the year below Elton...
), and later Tracy Barlow
Tracy Barlow
Tracy Lynette Barlow is a fictional character in the British television soap opera Coronation Street. She is currently portrayed, since 2002, by Kate Ford, the latest in a series of actresses who have played Tracy at various ages...
(Kate Ford
Kate Ford
Kate Connerty is a British actress best known for playing the role of Tracy Barlow in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 2002 to 2007. Kate returned to Coronation Street on Christmas Eve 2010....
), who wrecks his flat after discovering he has no intention of marrying her. He also sleeps with Tracy's mother Deirdre, who he employs at the shop.
Dev later meets solicitor Maya Sharma
Maya Sharma
Maya Sharma is a fictional character on the soap opera Coronation Street. She was played by Sasha Behar. She appears between 2003 and 2004.-Controversy:...
(Sasha Behar
Sasha Behar
Sasha Behar is a British actress, known for portraying Maya Sharma in ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street.-Background:...
), when on the rebound from Sunita, who chooses barman Ciaran McCarthy
Ciaran McCarthy
Ciaran McCarthy is a fictional character from the UK television ITV soap opera, Coronation Street portrayed by Keith Duffy. He made his first on-screen appearance on 7 August 2002, before departing in 2005. He returned in 2010 until Duffy temporary departed in January 2011 to go on Boyzone Tour,...
(Keith Duffy
Keith Duffy
Keith Peter Thomas Francis John Duffy is an Irish singer-songwriter, actor, drummer, dancer and television presenter. He began his career as part of Boyzone in the 1990s. In the 2000s, he achieved critical acclaim for his acting roles, particularly in soap operas such as Coronation Street and Fair...
) over him. He sets up home with Maya, but when Sunita becomes seriously ill, Maya gets jealous of the amount of time he spends with Sunita and forces Dev to choose between them. Dev chooses Sunita, enraging Maya, and she smashes up the flat and sets Sunita up with an illegal immigration scam, and she is arrested at her wedding to Dev. Sunita is jailed but released when a taxi driver comes forward with information that implicates Maya. Maya is released on bail, and with murder in mind, she ties up Sunita and one by one sets fire to each of Dev's shops. When Dev arrives, she knocks him unconscious, and leaves them to die in the fire, but Ciaran McCarthy and Charlie Stubbs (Bill Ward
Bill Ward (actor)
Bill Ward is an English actor who played Charlie Stubbs in Coronation Street.-Biography:He completed a degree in History at Bristol University. He is a former advertising executive. After Coronation Street, he had a role in the ITV series Cold Blood with Pauline Quirke...
) save them.
Dev's marriage to Sunita flows smoothly for a while, and the couple are overjoyed to discover they are having twins, which causes Dev to sell his share of cab firm Streetcars to Lloyd Mullaney
Lloyd Mullaney
Lloyd Mullaney is a fictional character in the UK television ITV soap opera, Coronation Street. Portrayed by actor Craig Charles, the character first appeared onscreen during the episode airing on 20 June 2005 and remained on screen until 23 July 2006 when Craig Charles was suspended but he...
(Craig Charles
Craig Charles
Craig Joseph Charles is an English actor, stand-up comedian, author, poet, radio and television presenter, best known for playing Dave Lister in the British cult-favourite science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf...
) to buy a house for his expanding family. However, during 2005, Sunita takes in Amber Kalirai
Amber Kalirai
Amber Kalirai is a fictional character from the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, played by Nikki Patel, the character first appeared on-screen during the episode airing on 9 November 2005. In May 2011 it was announced that Patel had returned to filming and Amber appeared again from 11 July...
(Nikki Patel
Nikki Patel
Nikki Patel is a British actress. She is best known as the character Amber Kalirai in Coronation Street. Some may also recognise her from the BBC hit drama Waterloo Road, where she played Shazia...
), daughter of one of his employees who is ill in hospital. Dev is uncomfortable with Amber in the flat, and Sunita discovers that Dev is Amber's father. He and her mother had had an affair years ago. However, Amber is just the tip of the iceberg. Dev has several daughters by women he has employed in all his shops. Sunita also discovers that Dev is a grandfather too.
Sunita is devastated by the secret and that Dev is happy having so little contact with his daughters and promptly leaves him. She allows him to be present when she gives birth to their twins, Asha and Aadi. While Dev is overjoyed (especially as Aadi is his first son), Sunita is unable to forgive him. Eventually, in January 2006, Sunita and the twins leave Dev for good, moving into the house Dev bought for them. Dev does see the twins occasionally.
The following February, Amber (who now knows the truth about her parentage) comes to stay with Dev as her mother is moving to Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
with her new boyfriend but Amber wants to stay in Weatherfield. At first, Dev refuses to allow her to live with him, bitter about the part Amber played in his marriage breakdown, but eventually he thaws and allows her to move in.
On New Year's Eve 2007, Dev takes over from Bob as best man for Vernon Tomlin
Vernon Tomlin
Vernon Tomlin was a fictional character of the ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street, portrayed by Ian Reddington. he originally appeared from December 2005 till September 2008.-Background:...
(Ian Reddington
Ian Reddington
- Early life :Ian Reddington was born in Sheffield. He was educated at Frecheville Comprehensive. He had no formal drama training, but became a leading figure in the Meatwhistle youth theatre project run by youth workers in the city. This gave him his first appearance as The Herald in Peter...
) at his wedding to Liz McDonald
Liz McDonald
Elizabeth "Liz" Jayne McDonald is a fictional character in the UK television ITV soap opera, Coronation Street. Portrayed by actress Beverley Callard, the character first appeared onscreen during the episode airing on 27 October 1989 and remained on the series until Callard opted to leave in 1998...
(Beverly Callard) and is later hit by Jim McDonald
Jim McDonald (Coronation Street)
James "Jim" McDonald is a fictional character in the British television ITV soap opera, Coronation Street. Portrayed by actor Charles Lawson, the character first appeared onscreen during the episode airing on 27 October 1989...
(Charles Lawson
Charles Lawson
Charles Lawson is a Northern Irish film and television actor.-Early life and education:He was born Quintin Charles Devenish Lawson in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland,...
), in the process of Jim beating Vernon.
In Summer 2008, Dev is upset after conversations with Tony Gordon
Tony Gordon
Anthony "Tony" Gordon was a fictional character in the itv soap opera Coronation Street, portrayed by actor Gray O'Brien. The character first appeared on screen on 16 September 2007 and making his final appearance on 9 June 2010 after deciding to sacrifice himself in the Underworld fire. He is a...
and Norris Cole
Norris Cole
Norris Benjamin Cole is a fictional character in the UK television ITV soap opera, Coronation Street. Portrayed by actor Malcolm Hebden, the character first appeared onscreen during the episode airing on 11 March 1994 and remained until his departure on 14 April 1997, only to return on 1 December...
make him realise he is not really successful and just a simple man running a chain of shops. To compensate, he quickly gets a membership to a new golf club to make himself feel better. Dev goes for a round of golf with Vernon and by chance, they strike up a conversation with Prem Mandal, who gives Vernon some golf pointers. The trio later have a drink together at the golf club. After Prem leaves, Dev tells Vernon that Prem is a very successful businessman who runs his own cleaning business.
Dev then enters into an affair with Prem's wife, Nina Mandal, (an ex-Bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
star whom Dev once had a crush on), after going on a date with their friend, Lisa.
Tara Mandal
Tara Mandal, is a fictional character on the British soap opera Coronation Street portrayed by Ayesha Dharker.-Creation:Her creation and casting were first announced on 22 August 2008, one month after Coronation Street was lambasted in a report by chairman of the Equality and Human Rights...
and Nina. Nina does not approve of Dev's attraction to Tara. Dev and Tara go on several dates despite Nina's disapproval and she threatens Dev that she will tell Prem about their affair. Dev, sick of Nina's threats, tells Prem himself, who wants nothing more to do with him. Unfortunately, Tara takes quite a shine to Dev and while he tries to discourage her, she interprets his actions as honourable. Eventually Dev visits Prem again and asks for his permission to date Tara but also Prem's promise that he won't tell Tara about Dev's affair with Nina. Dev asks this for Tara's sake and Prem agrees. Unfortunately, Tara tells Dev Nina had slept with her ex-boyfriend, but tells Tara that she is paranoid – her boyfriend wasn't really cheating on her.
In November 2008, he buys Jerry's Takeaway from Jerry Morton
Jerry Morton
Jerry Morton, played by Michael Starke, is a fictional character on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street. He was introduced in March 2007. It was announced in April 2008 that Jerry and the rest of the Mortons would leave the show later in 2008....
and renames it "Prima Doner". Amber is so angry when she discovers what her father has done – taken away her boyfriend's home and livelihood – that she tells Tara about Dev's affair with Nina. This causes her and Dev to split up briefly but they reconcile, with some help from Amber. Dev's uncle, Umed Alahan, arrives for a visit in March 2009 and begins to work in the corner shop.
In April 2009, barmaid Poppy Morales sees Dev and Tara's family friend Lisa Dalton together the night Tara dumps him, following an argument about her art gallery, and she leaves. However, Poppy tells Tara about Dev and Lisa's one-night-stand. Tara confronts Lisa about her betrayal and tells her not to visit either her or Dev again. When she asks Dev what he did the night she left, he tells her he stayed in, watching television so Tara plots revenge for his betrayal. As part of this, she convinces Dev to let him be photographed naked. On 11 May 2009, in front of a huge crowd in the Street for an unveiling on urban degradation, Dev proposes to Tara. However, she rejects him before unveiling a huge photo of him naked with the words LIAR printed on it. Dev is humiliated and Tara leaves soon after. In October 2009, Umed returns to India.
In November 2009, Dev begins taking golf lessons to try to be better than Steve McDonald. However, Steve is doing exactly the same thing. Dev begins to charming his instructor, Bernie Sayers (Jennifer Hennessy
Jennifer Hennessy
Jennifer Hennessy is a British actress best known for playing Mrs Brazendale in the BBC TV series Lilies.She trained for three years at the Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating in 1992...
), although he notices her strange behaviour around Steve and she admits she is also giving him golf lessons. Dev and Bernie begin a brief relationship, which is tested when Dev discovers that ex-wife Sunita is engaged to a new man, Matt. Jealous, Dev is not happy and makes several poor attempts at trying to regain contact with his kids and Sunita. He apologises to Sunita and Matt and promises to act sensibly about the situation. However, his desire to win back his kids leads to Bernie breaking up with him when it is clear he wants Sunita back as well.
In January 2010, Dev is secretly pleased when Sunita tells him she has broken up with Matt. Realising that they are both meant to be together, Dev and Sunita agree to give their relationship another chance. They subsequently go on to buy Maria Connor (Samia Smith
Samia Smith
Samia Maxine Ghadie , is an English actress best known for playing Maria Connor in the ITV Soap Coronation Street.-Early life:...
)'s house. In December 2010, after the tram crash Becky McDonald
Becky McDonald
Rebecca "Becky" McDonald is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, a long-running serial drama about working class life in the fictional town of Weatherfield. She is played by actress Katherine Kelly. Becky was created by producer Steve Frost as a recurring...
(Katherine Kelly
Katherine Kelly (actress)
Katherine Kelly, is a British actress and recording artist who is most well known for playing Becky McDonald in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street. She has also starred in the film Mischief Night.-Early life and career:...
) steals money from their safe while Dev is in hospital after Sunita was injured in the crash. Later that month Dev says he will be able to find out who stole the money on the CCTV camera but discovers the camera was damaged but he said he was lucky he had insurance. In February 2011, he attends Peter and Leanne's wedding renewal.
On 21 February, Owen Armstrong
Owen Armstrong
Owen Armstrong is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, played by Ian Puleston-Davies. He made his first on-screen appearance on 9 June 2010.-Casting:...
(Ian Puleston-Davies
Ian Puleston-Davies
-Early life and career:Born in Flint, Wales, Puleston-Davies has starred in the ITV drama Vincent alongside Ray Winstone, and Ghostboat , alongside David Jason. He has also played the lead roles in Conviction and the BBC Three series Funland.He has starred in long-running dramas such as Holby...
) turns up in the corner shop, which has nearly been repaired. He asks for payment, which Dev can not afford. Owen then threatens Dev, saying he will tear apart the corner shop if he is not paid. Dev returns home, where Sunita reveals they have no money in their savings account, and she demands an explanation. Dev then says that the corner shop was not insured, and that he has not paid the mortgage on his home, meaning he could lose it. Sunita asks to see the business accounts, to find that Dev's shops elsewhere have not been doing well due to various reasons e.g. roadworks and rival shops being opened. Sunita suggests they sell all of Dev's shops apart from the kebab shop and the corner shop on the Street. Dev then breaks down, saying it took years to build up his empire. Dev then goes to Steve, explaining that the stolen money would've paid for the corner shop's repairs. He then asks Steve for £5,000, but Steve says he can't as he also owes money to Owen, and to Lloyd for the Street Cars accounts.