Marc Baylis feels more attractive ever since his Coronation Street character Rob Donovan murdered Tina McIntyre (Michelle Keegan) on the soap.

The actor insists that since the scenes played out on ITV, women have given him more attention and he even had to defend himself when one eager fan groped his bottom.

Marc Baylis as Rob Donovan / Credit: ITV

Speaking to The Sun he said: "I was doing a personal appearance at a hotel room of 500 women. All of a sudden two hands grabbed a buttock each! I said, 'Are you having a laugh? Surely that's illegal to just grope me!'

"It was a middle-aged lady and she said, 'Oh, I enjoyed that'.

"It's quite perverse but people have started to find Rob a bit more attractive, which worries me!"

Admitting he was shocked to the response after Rob's dark side was exposed, he says he initially expected to get a bad reception from viewers.

"That's what I'd psyched myself up for and prepared for, but it's been the polar opposite."

Doing his best to keep Rob from being perceived as a nasty and vicious killer, he's shown a "human" side to the character in a bid to allow sympathy from the audience.

"I've tried to keep it as human as possible, so Rob hasn't become the plotting villain, and people have related to it.

"It could happen to anyone in that moment of anger, so people sympathise with him."

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