Vinta Morgan, who plays businessman Ronnie Bailey on Coronation Street, was working as a pest control sanitisation worker during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic when he learned he had landed the role. He had taken the job after a pest control technician mentioned needing extra help, and Morgan found himself spraying offices in the middle of the night. 'It felt like we were in a movie,' he recalled.
Morgan's real-life love story is equally cinematic. He first met his wife Nina on a train commute in their early 30s, but they lost touch for ten years. After moving back to Hertfordshire, they bumped into each other on the same train and began dating. They married in 2022, 13 days before the birth of their son.
Growing up in Hackney, east London, Morgan's parents were both singers, but his father became a chef and his mother an occupational therapist. At age 11, he was stopped by police under the Sus laws, an experience he described as 'violated, embarrassed and scared.' He later turned to rapping and was accepted into the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, but dropped out after a year due to financial struggles and feeling out of place among upper-middle-class peers.
Morgan joined Coronation Street in 2021 as Ronnie Bailey, and his character recently married hotel owner Debbie Webster, despite her dementia diagnosis. He describes his life as 'the most amazing technicolour experience.'
