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An actor known for his roles in Coronation Street and Emmerdale actor is banned from teaching after 'acting out his sexual fantasies and flirting with schoolgirl' at a £39,000-a-year boarding school.
Coronation Street actor, Anthony Bessick, has been banned from teaching after acting out his sexual fantasies with a schoolgirl and flirting with two other teen pupils.
Alongside his acting career, he was working as a drama coach at Tring School of Performing Arts under his real name Anthony Cooke.
The 57-year-old has now been banned from the classroom for life over his sordid behaviour at the £39,000-a-year boarding academy in Hertfordshire.
Bessick acted in four roles on the Cobbles - gangster Lewis Knox, Street Cars cabbie Vernon Bradshaw, dying hospital patient Mike Scott and fireman Vince Lonsdale.
Anthony Bessick, 57, whose real name is Anthony Cooke, has been banned from teaching after acting out his sexual fantasies with a schoolgirl and flirting with two other teen pupils
Bessick is best-known for his roles on Coronation Street, including gangster Lewis Knox, Street Cars cabbie Vernon Bradshaw, dying hospital patient Mike Scott and fireman Vince Lonsdale
He played Mike Scott again on Harry Hill's TV Burp, poking fun at his character's death scene.
The Bolton-based actor, who specialises in 'Bad Boy' roles, also appeared in The Royal, Emmerdale, Boy Meets Girl, The Street, Kay Mellor's The Chase, and Truth Dare Kiss.
Tring has produced some of Britain's biggest stars - most recently Lilly James, X-factor singer Ella Henderson, and Life after Life's Jessica Brown Findlay.
A misconduct panel was told Bessick was involved in filmmaking with the students and would comment on their performances via social media and text.
But with three girls, referred to only as Pupil A, Pupil B, and Pupil C the conversations took a sinister turn.
On the night of the school ball in July 2016 he 'took Pupil A to the staff room and offered her beer from the fridge according to co-workers who interrupted him.
He messaged her, begging her to indulge his sexual fantasies of 'being squashed', 'crushed', and 'sat or stood on top of', teaching watchdogs found
While living on the grounds as school caretaker, he messaged Pupil B: 'You should come
