Julie says: "I'm sure at some point Roy will have to try and see someone again and I'm sure he'll have Hayley's blessing and they'll have much discussion about that, so I'll be very happy to live on in conversations in the street."
On how she'd deal with seeing a new woman in Roy's life, Julie admitted: "As Julie, it will kill me, I'll find it very, very difficult, but I think Hayley would give him her blessing. I think she'd want him to live on, as long as it was someone nice."
David Neilson says this about Roy: "He'll get into a relationship... Whether that's a relationship in the accepted sense I don't know. I just want to do interesting stories. I don't mind if he builds himself a kalashnikov out of Meccano and takes half the street out, I'll enjoy it."
Corrie producer Stuart Blackburn has already ruled out a new love interest for Roy. He says: "We are now building a new friendship for Roy, but as long as I'm producer, he will not have a romance with anyone. If that's the only story we can give Roy, we're a bit crap at our job." However, he also says that Roy is "pushed into actions he never imagined".
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