Emmerdale spoilers, news and interviews sent straight to your inbox for free We have more newsletters Emmerdale spoilers, news and interviews sent straight to your inbox for free We have more newsletters Daniel Osbourne is currently at the centre of the drama in Coronation Street . On Friday's edition of the soap, 23 August, DS Swain hauls Sarah in for questioning over Lauren's disappearance . And after denying planting Lauren’s DNA in his van, Sarah urges Daniel to persuade Bethany to drop her campaign against Nathan.

Meanwhile, Daniel tells Daisy that he doesn’t trust Kit and something doesn’t sit right about Nathan’s conviction. Corrie fans know that it was, in fact, Joel Deering who was behind Lauren's disappearance after he brutally attacked her. But in a bid to keep everything he's done secret, he's asked Lauren to lie and say it was Nathan who groomed her.

Thirty two year old Rob Mallard, who plays Daniel, first appeared on the famous cobbles in 2016 as the son of Ken Barlow and the uncle of Adam Barlow, a notorious womaniser. However, this wasn't Rob's first time on a soap. Sign up to OK!'s TV newsletter to get updates sent to your inbox for free Before joining Coronation Street , Rob played Connor Jenson in Emmerdale back in September 2015.

Rob joined Corrie in the following year and also featured in Jack Whitehall's Channel 4 comedy Fresh Meat. In his personal life, Rob publicly came out as gay during an interview with Gay Times in 2017, having told his fami.