Coronation Street star Jacob Roberts has admitted Christopher ‘Kit’ Green is putting on an act as he teased whether the character will be any more ‘rogue’ in upcoming scenes.

Viewers of the ITV soap were first introduced to the police officer after Bernie Winter had been on a mission to track down her long-lost son Zodiac, who was adopted and had his name changed to Christopher Green not long after he was born. When she found Kit, he lied and said he wasn’t adopted but it was later confirmed that Bernie had found the son she gave up.

Kit then appeared to target Bernie, taking her unnecessarily into the police station, much to the dismay of DS Lisa Swain. Eventually the truth came out about him being Bernie’s biological son, however, he made it clear he didn’t want anything to do with her or her family.

During Friday night’s (June 28) Corrie, Corrie fans saw Bernie go to Kit for help after Gemma was arrested for stealing shoes from a shoe shop for her daughter, Carhys. After PC Craig Tinker mentions Gemma and husband Chesney’s struggles, Kit softens and calls at the shoe shop and convinced shop owner Bruce to drop the complaint, hinting he has information he wouldn’t want getting out.

Back in the cell, Kit speaks to Gemma and she is intrigued to know why Kit wanted to help her. Later, she introduced him to Chesney and the kids but whilst there, he got a shocking call from his dad. Sitting on Gemma’s sofa, he was delivered the tragic news that his mum had suddenly died.

He was informed she had suffered a stroke and he soon raced to leave Gemma’s house but not before he came face-to-face with Bernie. Kit railed at his birth mum as he said: “I should have been with her today. Instead, I got caught up helping with your dodgy family.”

He cried as he said the mum he “loved” was dead whilst the one who “abandoned” him “being very much alive”. But amid his tears, Kit then soon appeared to have a change of heart as he told Bernie that his adoptive mum’s death had made him reflect and he was now keen to get to know Gemma and his dying brother Paul and insisted they tell the twin siblings everything tomorrow.

But Corrie star Jacob, who previously starred in Hollyoaks, confirmed: “It is all an act, he is letting her think that he wants to bring the family together and whilst he is being honest about wanting a relationship with Gemma and Paul, he is pretending that he wants to build bridges with Bernie but it is the last thing he wants.”

“He wants to tell Gemma and Paul his version of events,” Jacob revealed. ‘He wants them to know how their mum abandoned him and kept his existence from them. He is determined to make it clear how they all missed out and really make it clear how selfish he feels she was. He does get some pleasure from doing it behind her back. He wants to hurt her like she hurt him.”

But as fans also know, Kit set Nathan Curtis up to be the prime suspect in the disappearance – and assumed murder – of missing teen Lauren Bolton. he planted evidence in the groomer’s van to get one up on DS Lisa Swain, after catching Sarah Barlow planning to do it for the sake of her daughter Bethany Platt.

Asked how much a ‘rogue’ cop Kit really is, Jacob said: “He is ambitious and very complicated. He doesn’t trust anyone because of what happened to him with his mum so he is a lone wolf in many respects. If he can get away with not doing things by the book he will and we will see more of that in the future.”