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EX-Coronation Street star Bruce Jones is set to join Celebrity Big Brother.

Bruce, best known as Les Battersby, will join Abs from boyband 5ive next Friday on Channel 5.

The ex-Corrie star 60, has struggled with alcoholism and depression.

He was axed from the show in 2007 after drunkenly revealing plots to fellow drinkers in pubs.

In 2010 he grabbed the wheel of a car his wife Sandra was driving in a bid to kill them both.

Months later, he took a mechanic’s job and in 2011 he lost two homes, in Cheshire and Wales, because of his debts.

Bruce, who has quit boozing, said: “I decided I’d drink my depression away. I wanted to die.”

Jones believes several events in his life triggered his depression, including discovering one of the Yorkshire ripper’s victims.

Other celebrities believed to be entering the house include The Only Way Is Essex hunk Mario Falcone.

Mario, who previously dated Lucy Mecklenburgh, admitted earlier this year that he attempted suicide.

The housemates will join Abs from boyband 5ive - real name Richard Breen - in the Channel 5 show.

Lasy year, Bruce was rumoured for the series alongside his former on screen wife, Wendi Peters.


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