Who played Joe Carter on Coronation Street and where is he now?
CORONATION Street has seen many villains come and go over the years.
In the early noughties smooth criminal Joe Carter arrived on the Corrie cobbles, and caused a whirlwind of drama along the way.
Who played Joe Carter?
Joe Carter or “Mr Smooth” as he was known by Corrie fans, was played by actor Jonathan Wrather.
Before Coronation Street, he’d already appeared in shows including Crossroads and Footballers’ Wives.
He arrived on The Street in 2002, before leaving in 2003.
During his Corrie days actor Jonathan grew close to co-star Suranne Jones, who played Karen McDonald, and the pair confirmed they were an item at her leaving party in 2004.
But it wasn’t meant to be, and they split up in 2005 just after she moved to London.
Jonathan’s character Joe was an ex-con who left prison and straight away landed the deputy manager’s job at Mike Baldwin’s knicker factory, Underworld – much to the disgust of Karen
He annoyed her even more when he sacked her.
Karen aside, Joe proved very popular with the female machinists at Underworld and won the heart of Geena Gregory, who’d not long broken up with Dev Alahan.
What happened to Joe Carter?
When Joe was made partner in the factory by Mike, he set his sights on Karen, and began flirting with her.
The smooth criminal had a masterplan to take over the factory and she was part of it.
Joe seduced her and the pair set about defrauding Mike.
However, Karen couldn’t go though with it, and told her boss everything
She then broke up with Joe and he left Weatherfield forever.
Where is Jonathan Wrather now?
After Jonathan left Coronation Street, he went on to appear in Holby City, Silent Witness, and Casualty.
But his next big soap role was on Emmerdale when he played evil Pierce Harris from 2016 until 2017, and then again in 2020.
Jonathan is still acting but in 2021, he started a new venture.
He opened a coffee and juice business in Cheshire, called Remedy On The Park.