Soap fans are a passionate bunch. You only need to look at Twitter when any of them are airing to see that.
But some of them take a bit too far, and confuse the actors with the characters they play.
That's what has happened to Coronation Street star Mikey North, who's been talking to Inside Soap about getting stick from people over Gary Windass' latest storyline with Seb Franklin.
He said: "Since the recent episodes, where Gary's kind of bullying Seb, it's gone back to how it was when I started on the show and Gary is hated again – people are shouting at me on the streets!
"That side of him is always fun to play, but it's going to take some time for me to get used to the abuse again, I think."
Speaking about the current Underworld roof collapse, in which Gary is a suspect, the actor said: "It's always quite nice to be involved in a 'whodunit', especially one as big as this. He is always quite suspicious, is our Gary. He has that look that implies he's up to no good."
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Mikey's Corrie co-star Jane Danson recently took part in Dancing on Ice, and said plenty of the soap's stars are wanting to have a go now. But Mikey is not one them.
"I couldn't do that if you paid me all the money in the world," he said.
"Me on ice is not good at all. If they called it Standing on Ice, I'd still lose!"
Coronation Street continues tonight (March 20) at 7.30pm.
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