‘Geoff faces losing Tim’
Justice can’t be far away now
It looked like tenacious terrier Alya would be the one to bring down Geoff, but it might in fact be the arrival of his ex Elaine that could be the godsend Yasmeen needs. Ian Bartholomew, who plays the Corrie villain, explains what’s going through Geoff’s mind…
Does Alya rattle Geoff?
It very much depends on what she is doing or saying. Sometimes, when she is letting out information she should be keeping to herself, she is actually inadvertently helping Geoff to decide what move he should be making next.
Just how shocked was Geoff when Yasmeen told him she hates him and had met one of his exes?
That is a big one for him – it turns everything on its head for him. He didn’t know who had gone to visit her, but what it did was it turned him from being, “It’s OK, I will be lovely and almost apologetic”, to turning really nasty, which is his defence mechanism. He reverted to being mean and cruel.
We found out that Elaine is Tim’s mum, but Geoff let Tim think his second wife was. How is Geoff going to worm his way out of this one?
That is going to be tricky for Geoff – he has been lying for years and the fact that Tim’s real mother suddenly turns up and has been to see Yasmeen, that is a game changer for him. It throws him completely but he gets a grip quickly, because he is manipulative and resourceful. It is his anger that fuels him to do something about it. He threatens her and we have to believe he will stop at nothing to get this woman, this problem, out of his life.
Do you think he has any remorse about letting Tim think his mum was dead?
I think if you tell yourself a story enough times, you can start to believe it. He has told himself time and time again that it is the truth. In the back of his mind, he knows it is not, so when we finally find out he has been lying to Tim, and Tim discovers his whole life is based on a lie, it will be a real kick in the guts. Geoff is facing losing the one person he does not want to lose.