In a £39,000-per-year boarding school, an actor best known for his appearances in Coronation Street and Emmerdale was caught “playing out his sexual fantasies and flirting with schoolgirl” and was therefore prohibited from teaching.
Anthony Bessick, a Coronation Street actor, has been prohibited from teaching after playing out his sexual fantasies with a schoolgirl and teasing two other adolescent students.
Under his true name Anthony Cooke, he was also employed as a theatre teacher at Tring School of Performing Arts.
Due to his despicable behavior at the £39,000-per-year boarding institution in Hertfordshire, the 57-year-old has now been permanently barred from the classroom.
On the Cobbles, Bessick played four characters: Vince Lonsdale, a firefighter, Vernon Bradshaw, a Street Cars taxi driver, and mobster Lewis Knox.
On Harry Hill’s TV Burp, he reprised his role as Mike Scott and made light of his character’s demise.
The actor from Bolton, who specializes in “Bad Boy” characters, has also acted in the television series The Royal, Emmerdale, Boy Meets Girl, The Street, Kay Mellor’s The Chase, and Truth Dare Kiss.
Some of the biggest names in Britain have come from Tring, most notably Lilly James, Ella Henderson from X-Factor, and Jessica Brown Findlay from Life after Life.
Bessick collaborated on film projects with the students and critiqued their work on social media and via text messages, according to information provided to a misconduct panel.
However, the chats with three girls—referred to only as Pupil A, Pupil B, and Pupil C—took a dark turn.
He “brought Pupil A to the staff room and gave her drink from the fridge on the night of the school ball in July 2016,” according to coworkers who stopped him.
Teaching watchdogs discovered that he messaged her, pleading with her to fulfill his desires of “being squished,” “crushed,” and “sat or stood on top of.”
He sent Pupil B a message saying, “You should come down for a ghost hunting session,” while residing on the school grounds as the groundskeeper.
After a few voddy shots, not too awful.
She received a reply from him saying, “Uni, shmuni…can be a waste of c***ing time,” after he uploaded a photo of two sets of nude legs on a bed.
Just had a costume fitting today; need to don a huge f**k off mustache; resemble a Victorian porn star.
In 2015, while she was a student participating in one of his performances, he started bugging Pupil C. He did it again in 2018, by which time she was a seasoned performer.
He gushed on Facebook as he praised her for her portrayal, saying, “I appreciate what you did and it’s often impossible to distinguish the actor from the part.” I am expressing this on Facebook because it would be difficult for me to speak to you in class.
He reunited with her in 2018, three years after she had departed, and asked for a customized animated logo to promote one of his school movies and perform for him as well.
Be okay having some top totty in the logo, he advised her. If necessary, could you squash a genuine one?
I was informed in class that a former Tring, top tot celebrity may appear in their movie.
According to Penny Griffith, who presided over the Teaching Regulation Agency hearing, he also requested that she carry out an act that was connected to one of his sexual fantasies.
She said: “Mr. Cooke’s behavior interfered with his ability to carry out his teaching duties since he crossed the line between teacher and student and showed a disdain for school rules.
Additionally, he exposed those students to his sex obsessions via his acts.
After concluding that Mr. Cooke had engaged in improper professional behavior, Ms. Griffin said, “He has mentioned having lost a job he liked.
But he hasn’t shown that he understands how it will affect the students and the school. His acts were spread out across many years.
His interactions with students and previous students were sexually driven, and on one occasion, he used a student at the school to carry out his fantasies.
He acknowledges that his actions were driven by sexual desire and that he was sexually motivated when he participated in this behavior.
Mr. Cooke had participated in behavior that was “sexually motivated” in the sense that it was done to gratify his own sexual desires.
John Knowles, the Education Secretary, said that he was permanently barred from contact with Cooke after the panel determined that he engaged with students and past students for his personal sexual enjoyment.
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