1 | | | CHOOSING to sing old Leo | | 7 | | | Will is determined to make it as a singer. “Music |
| | | Sayer’s hit ‘When I Need You’ | | | | | has always been what I wanted to do, even before |
| | | hardly seems the obvious choice | | | | | acting. Not long before I got the Hollyoaks part, I |
| | | for a man aiming to launch a | | | | | sent dozens of demos to record companies and |
| 5 | | music career. But Will Mellor, star | | | 50 | | nobody wanted to know. But for the past year I’ve |
| | | of the Channel 4 series Hollyoaks | | | | | had record company interest solely because I |
| | | insisted it would be his debut | | | | | happen to be a singer in a popular soap series. |
| | | single. “The reason is that it’s the song my sister | | | | | Some of them offered me recording contracts |
| | | Joanne likes best. She’s been mentally and | | | | | without even hearing me sing. How mad is that?” |
| 10 | | physically disabled since she suffered a serious | | | | | 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| | | heart condition four years ago. | | | | |
2 | | | She had been a bit off colour but she seemed well | | | | |
| | | enough to go out for a drink with some friends. | | | | |
| | | Then we got a knock on the door and it turned out | | | | |
| 15 | | she had collapsed in the street. Joanne was very ill | | | | |
| | | and at one stage was given only a small chance to | | | | |
| | | pull through. | | | | |
3 | | | I have never been so scared,”Will admits.“One of | | | | |
| | | the songs we played to her in the hospital was ‘When | | | | |
| 20 | | I Need You’. It still reminds me so much of Joanne, | | | | |
| | | and I see it as a tribute to her. Although she’s a bit | | | | |
| | | slow mentally and physically now, Joanne’s one of | | | | |
| | | the funniest members of our family.” | | | | |
4 | | | Joanne is one of Will’s four elder sisters. “I used | | | | |
| 25 | | to long for a brother,” he laughs. “Being the | | | | |
| | | youngest, it was annoying to have four women boss | | | | |
| | | me around. And I never had any decent toys to | | | | |
| | | borrow. I was always left playing with Barbie dolls. | | | | |
| | | Obviously I couldn’t borrow clothes either. Luckily | | | | |
| 30 | | I had a cousin who lent me shirts. On the other | | 8 | 55 | | Will also has a dark secret. “Three years ago, |
| | | hand, growing up surrounded by women at least | | | | | when Take That had really taken off, I answered an |
| | | means I’ve learned to respect them from an early age.” | | | | | advert for a band which was being put together.We |
5 | | | Will first met his girlfriend Angela Griffin, who | | | | | were called ‘Right Now’. To be honest, the bloke |
| | | stars in Coronation Street, at a showbiz party. “We | | | | | who put us together was a real amateur.We didn’t |
| 35 | | were fans of each other’s shows, and we got on | | | 60 | | even get a record contract, but I’m glad about that |
| | | great immediately, but it was a while before we | | | | | now. I don’t even have any photos of the band any |
| | | realised how much we really felt for each other.” | | | | | more. I’m waiting for someone to find them because |
6 | | | The hardest time in their relationship was when | | | | | I’m sure they’ll turn up and embarrass me one day.” |
| | | he and Angela started going out together. “Having | | 9 | | | If Will had to choose between music and |
| 40 | | the press camped outside our doors was difficult to | | | 65 | | Hollyoaks there would only be one answer. “I’m |
| | | cope with,” he says,“We both thought: ‘is this worth | | | | | grateful to Hollyoaks, but I want to be able to |
| | | it?’ and the answer was ‘Yes, too right it is!’ Since we | | | | | concentrate totally on the music. I won’t want any |
| | | openly admitted we are having a relationship it’s been | | | | | acting jobs if the music goes well. But right now I’ve |
| | | fine. My only worry is if my music career takes off | | | | | got a two-year contract playing Jambo, and that |
| 45 | | and I have to move to London.” | | | 70 | | suits me fine for the moment.” |
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| ‘People Magazine’ |