Kevin Webster

Template:Coronation Street character Kevin John Webster, played by Michael Le Vell, is a fictional character in the British soap opera Coronation Street.

Storyines

Kevin is a hard-working mechanic who first appeared in 1983, working for Brian Tilsley. His father, Bill Webster, and his sister, Debbie, later joined him. Initially his life consisted of little more than working by day and drinking with friends Terry Duckworth and Curly Watts in the evening, he dated one or two girls but then he met the love of his life, Sally Seddon, in 1986 and they wed. The Websters bought Elsie Tanner's house at Number 11 after she scarpered to Portugal in the middle of the night in early 1983.

In 1986 Kevin became a hero as he broke the window of the Rovers Return to drag Bet Lynch to safety after a fire destroyed the pub. Although Sally pushed him to buy the garage several times, Kevin wasn't ready to be his own boss and was quite content to work for someone else, much to Sally's chagrin. Eventually though, the opportunity and price were right and he went into partnership with Tony Horrocks.

Kevin has two daughters by Sally, Rosie and Sophie, who he adores. Kevin made a go of the business but it was to be the downfall of his marraige in 1997 when Tony's mother, Natalie Horrocks, took over her son's share of the business and moved in on Kevin at a vulnerable time. Sally was away nursing her sick mother and Natalie had no compunctions about seducing a married man.Kevin and Sally divorced after the affair. In the end, Sally took Kevin back, mainly for the girls' sake but that wasn't to last. She was then seduced by the dangerous charm of Greg Kelly, the estranged son of Les Battersby, and this time, Kevin threw her out. Greg used her money (inherited from her recently deceased mother) and then abused her. It was all over in a flash but Kevin wasn't taking her back.

Despite his lingering feelings for Sally, he went on to marry Alison Wakefield, a machinist from the factory who was pregnant with his child. The night before Kevin was to marry Alison, he and Sally had a one night stand for old times' sake. Although Kevin did marry Alison, the secret came out before Sally married Danny Hargreaves who then left her. Tragedy ensued as Alison commited suicide after the death of the baby. In 2001, Kevin had a short relationship with district nurse Molly Hardcastle whom he rescued from the brink of suicide as she was worried about financial debts.

Kevin and Sally later remarried, mainly for security on Sally's part. Kevin still loved Sally, and hopes that despite her claims otherwise, she still loves him. Kevin owns and runs a garage with help from Tyrone Dobbs. Previous employees Tony Horrocks, Tommy Harris and Dennis Stringer have all come to a sticky end; Tommy was actually murdered in the garage.

Down through the years Kevin has often overlooked Sally's misdemeanors. When she nearly ran off with a decorator Kevin knew this but married her anyway and she said I Do, again, seemingly for the sake of her girls. Sally had another affair with her boss, Ian Davenport in 2005 which Kevin again overlooked, pretending to believe Sally's lies that nothing actually happened.

In early October 2006, Kevin's father Bill Webster telephoned Kevin to say that he would pay for all the Websters to visit Paris for Kevin and Sally's upcoming 20th wedding anniversary. Sally also invited Craig as she thought Rosie wouldn't want to leave him. But Rosie and Craig ran away and planned to get a train to Germany. However Rosie couldn't do it and Craig left on his own.

Recently Fiz has been telling him that she thinks that John Stape and Sally are having an affair with situations occurring to confirm her suspicions even more, for example when both of them were at Freshcos at the same time and when Sally got something in her eye and John tried to help her get it out which looked like they were kissing. The thing is that whilst Sally has developed a crush on John it's Kevin's oldest daughter Rosie (age 16) who's having an affair with John.

On 25 December 2007 Kevin was arrested for assaulting and beating John Stape after Rosie and John's affair was revealed due to John giving Fiz and Rosie the wrong presents.

On 11 January 2008 he was sentenced to prison for 28 days. He served 14 days of the sentence due to good behaviour.