Over four weeks later, Gail tells Nick that Natasha had an abortion. Gail becomes suspicious of Natasha's behaviour and checks her medical records. Horrified, Nick disowns Natasha, and after failing to find any support, Natasha tries committing suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping tablets.
Nick finds Natasha unconscious and calls an ambulance. Leanne goes to the hospital with Nick. While in the waiting room, he apologises to Leanne for wrecking their marriage and chances of having a baby together.
He tells her it was always a big regret, leading to an emotional conversation about the past. Leanne tells Nick that she forgave them both a long time ago and it was time that he did the same.
The doctor tells them that Natasha is regaining consciousness and Nick goes to see her. She apologises and he says that they will try again when she is better. Natasha is discharged the next day and Nick says he wants them to try again, which Natasha is delighted with. However, as he leaves, Audrey makes her realise that Nick is taking her back out of guilt, not love.
Natasha realises this and takes revenge, insulting the factory girls by telling them what Nick calls them behind their backs. Nick says he loves her but Natasha rejects him, saying only one word, "Leanne". Natasha walks down the street and sees Nick leave the Rovers and pass Leanne and Peter. They both wave and as they walk past, he glances back at Leanne, prompting Natasha to get into a cab and leave Weatherfield behind while Nick looks on.
Leanne, although disgusted initially, agrees to go into business with him. It is clear that Nick still has strong feelings for Leanne and after the opening, the pair succumb to temptation. Nick tells Leanne that he should never have let her go, only to be silenced by Leanne kissing him and eventually sleeping with him. Leanne lies to Nick saying she regrets it and creates rotas so they never work alone together but Nick sees through it, telling her that he loves his business but he loves her more and it's her choice what to do with it and they can't avoid their feelings.
Leanne tries to avoid him, but it draws them closer together. One night while closing up, Nick asks Leanne to look him in the eye and say that she doesn't love him, but she just can't bring herself to do it and kisses him passionately.
As of that night, they embark on a dangerous and passionate affair almost getting caught. On Peter's stag night, Nick decides to come clean about his affair with Leanne. Before he can, however, an explosion causes Nick, Peter and Ashley to be trapped under the rubble. He and Ashley manage to get Peter safely out moments before it collapses. Peter is badly injured and Ashley is crushed to death by the falling debris, but Nick escapes relatively unharmed and is given a clean bill of health at the hospital.
He expresses guilt that Ashley didn't make it out alive, offering support to Ashley's widow, Claire Peacock Julia Haworth , on breaking the news to her sons. He visits Peter and Leanne in hospital, where she tells him that Peter has asked her to marry him. He tries to persuade her not to, but she tells him that she loves Peter, not him.
Nick finally accepts this and is heartbroken. Nick comes under investigation for failing to report that there was a problem with the gas in The Joinery on the night of the explosion.
Claire discovers this and blames him for Ashley's death, also banning him from attending the funeral. Later she calls to see Nick, explaining that she cannot forgive him yet, but she acknowledges that he was a good friend to Ashley. It is later revealed that faulty equipment caused the explosion rather than human error, meaning that Nick was not responsible.
Although Leanne is now married to Peter, who is in a wheelchair following the explosion, Nick is still fixated on her and tries to persuade her to leave her new husband for him, but although they share a kiss at Christmas, she keeps turning him down. Determined to stay close to her, Nick persuades Peter to let him manage the bookies while he recovers. On New Years Eve , Tracy Barlow Kate Ford turns up at the bookies in a flirtatious mood, and Nick, frustrated by Leanne's continued refusal to leave Peter for him, sleeps with her — not knowing that she had slept with his half brother David the night before him.
Nick's night with Tracy is cut short, however, when a shocked Leanne walks in on them. In January , Nick becomes determined to split Peter and Leanne up. Working with Leanne at the bookies, he takes every opportunity to sow seeds of doubt in her mind. He also pretends to be a good friend to Peter, who is very depressed about the injuries he received in the Joinery explosion, and uses the opportunity to subtly encourage the vulnerable recovering alcoholic to start drinking again, in the hope that Leanne will find out and leave him.
Peter reveals everything on Valentines Day and tells everyone that Nick persuaded him to drink. Later on Nick goes to his damaged pub and Peter follows him and hits him with his crutch. Nick then gets up and leaves. In November , when Nick begins to see Underworld struggling to cope, Nick goes back to working at the factory after being persuaded by Michelle Connor Kym Marsh.
The character of Nick first appeared in , when he was born; portrayed by Warren Jackson. In Warren Jackson decided to leave Coronation Street. The producers decided to bring back Nick a year later in , this time played by Adam Rickitt. He played the role of Nick for the last time in July In early it was reported that producers were discussing bringing back Nick, but Adam Rickitt was unavailable because he was starring in Shortland Street , a soap opera in New Zealand.
The producers decided to recast the character for the third time. The role went to former Footballers' Wives ' star Ben Price. It's been five years and you move a lot over that time. I'm sure people will think he's not like 'the other Nick', but hopefully they'll think I'm bringing something better, nicer or a bit different to the show. Natasha's funeral approaches and Sam is understandably struggling. Nick struggles to cope in the wake of Natasha's death. The young lad wasn't able to talk to Leanne and Nick tonight.
The actual catastrophe is merely the scene setter. And what we engage with most is what happens after the event. Rachel discussed all about Natasha's sad death. Sam and Nick were completely numb after being told Natasha had passed away. During Gail's remand David was desperate to prove that she was innocent so stole Nick's car and drove to the Lake District with his friend Graeme Proctor to get answers.
David got in trouble with the police, and Nick covered for David saying that he allowed him to steal the car. Nick along with the family attended Gail's trial in June During that time Tony Gordon had broken out of prison and secretly held Carla and Hayley Cropper hostage at the factory with the intention of burning the place down and killing them as revenge for his imprisonment. Hayley was freed and Carla managed to escape the burning factory, and Tony perished when the factory exploded.
The following day Gail was found not guilty for Joe's death and was released. Carla was unable to deal with the trauma of her near death experience so suddenly left for a holiday with her boyfriend Trevor Dean , leaving Nick in the lurch. He took an interest in the premises under the viaduct at the end of Coronation Street and reached out to his ex Leanne, whose fiance Peter Barlow was going to set up a bar there before backing down due to his alcoholism. Leanne wanted to help Nick so put him in contact with the proprietor George Wilson - the grandfather of Peter's son Simon.
Peter wasn't happy due to George trying to take Simon away from him months previously and feared that Leanne contacting George would bring him back into Simon's life.
However such a thing never happened and Nick got the property, where he set up some sewing machines to continue the business, although under his own brand and work under the trade name Nick's Knicks.
Carla returned after her time away and assumed that Nick was simply continuing Underworld at the viaduct until the factory itself was rebuilt, however he made clear that this was his business and he didn't want her part of it, due to her leaving him to cope on his own.
Carla got her own back by managing to steal a client of Nick's, which caused trouble for his new venture so he reluctantly agreed to let back in. They eventually moved back to the factory after it was rebuilt. Things continued to be sour though when Carla allowed her boyfriend Trevor to work as a personal assistant in the office.
Nick wasn't pleased due to Trevor's lack of experience and the fact his previous profession was working as a binman. When Trevor struggled with life at Underworld, Nick took the opportunity to make jibes at him and made clear he wasn't pleased with the arrangement, although Carla overlooked it. Unable to take Nick any longer, Trevor punched him and quit. Trevor later broke off with Carla and left the street. Nick decided to move on. Still interested in the vacant property under the viaduct, he decided to set up his own bar.
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