Coronation Street star Qasim Akhtar teases Zeedan Nazir's secrets

Coronation Street spoilers follow.

Coronation Street star Qasim Akhtar has spilled the beans on his character Zeedan's return to the cobbles.

In an upcoming episode, Yasmeen Nazir (Shelley King) will announce to Alya (Sair Khan) that grandson Zeedan (Akhtar), who was last seen on the soap in 2018, is coming to stay for her birthday. The character will later be involved in a brutal attack, lying to his grandma and sister about a large sum of money he has come into.

"[H]e is being very cagey, he doesn't tell her where the money has come from and she knows her brother well, so she is right not to trust him and what he is saying," Akhtar said.

"He is just scared that his grandma and sister are going to find out that he has perhaps not been truthful about the money and how he came about it."

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The actor also explained why Zeedan ends up blaming Ryan (Ryan Prescott) for the attack.

"He is just trying to buy himself some more time, he wants all the attention taken away from the real reason he has been attacked," Akthar said. "He just sees an opportunity with Ryan, because he has had an argument with him literally just before the attack, it is the perfect way to deflect the truth."

However, Zeedan changes his mind about Ryan after finding out what he did to help Yasmeen and Alya.

"Really, at the heart of it, he doesn't want to lie to them any more, or he wants to tell them a version of the truth," he said.

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"He has crossed the wrong people and he has got on the wrong side of someone who is quite a big fish so he will be bringing trouble to the street and Yasmeen and Alya are going to find themselves in the crossfire and in the thick of it with him."

Coronation Street airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7.30pm and 8.30pm.