winning betting slip in 2008, it was said that even though Paul "never knew his dad, that rogue Terry Duckworth gene can't help rising to the surface." An article published by Stuart Heritage of The Guardian during the time of Jack Duckworth's departure from the show described Terry as a "dour elvis lookalike." Heritage explained that Terry "has spent his life knocking up women, getting thrown in prison and setting up bizarre human organ-harvesting scams". Based on the characters villainy, he claimed that "if Terry Duckworth ever teamed up with Nick Cotton, we would certainly be doomed". Chris Fountain, who was cast as Terry's son Tommy, claimed in an interview with Digital Spy that "if Terry came back, I think it would cause fireworks between a lot of the characters. It would be nice to see how that would pan out, because obviously Tommy is completely different to Terry - he hasn't got so much of a temper and I don't think he's a nasty person. It would definitely be quite interesting to see what happened if Terry came back". Inside Soap's Sarah Ellis said that Terry had been "Weatherfield's Most Hated" for decades - and that there was good reason behind the status. A writer from The People: Soap Special named Terry as one of the "top 10 villains" of soap opera. See also List of Coronation Street characters (1983) List of soap opera villains References Coronation Street characters Fictional criminals in soap operas Fictional businesspeople Fictional salespeople Television characters introduced in 1983 Fictional con artists Male villains Fictional prisoners and detainees Male characters in television