Beyond Paradise guest cast tonight includes Coronation Street villain actor

Beyond Paradise season 2 fans are in for a treat tonight as Coronation Street villain Mark Frost arrives in Shipton Abbott in a guest role.

Coronation Street viewers will remember Mark as slimy Ray Crosby, the hotel owner who went on a mission to buy up all of the street and bulldoze the whole lot for redevelopment.

By the time Ray left the cobbles in 2021, he was also guilty of attempted murder after locking Debbie and Kevin Webster in a freezer and the sexual assault of Faye Windass, played by Strictly Come Dancing 2023 winner Ellie Leach.

But if viewers were hoping Mark might be playing a nicer character in Beyond Paradise, they're possibly set for disappointment. The actor will take on the role of Patrick Kirby, a character who is the prime suspect when his sister-in-law's lifeless body is found on a moor.

But, this won't be the first time landowner Patrick has been accused of wrongdoing. According to the official synopsis for the episode airing tonight (Friday, April 19), the character has previously been accused of killing his brother.

The BBC says: "On the open ground of Abbott Moor, an early-morning walker stumbles across a chilling sight: a woman, face down on the ground, with an arrow straight through her shoulder. The victim, Niamh Kirby, didn’t see her attacker, and there’s no trace of their presence or weapon at the scene.

"As the team digs deeper, they uncover a family feud between Niamh and her brother-in-law, Patrick. She accused her brother-in-law of murdering her husband, who vanished from Shipton Abbott overnight a decade before, and the bad blood between them has never settled. With answers lying in the past, they find themselves with more than one crime to solve."

Whether Patrick is a killer remains to be seen, but that's not the only drama we have to look forward to in the penultimate episode of season 2.

With their wedding fast approaching, Humphry and Martha are worried that Anne might be a little too invested in their fairytale ceremony after her recent romantic entanglements.

While elsewhere, Esther wrestles with unexpected consequences when a white lie she told Zoe about her dead father comes back to haunt her.

Beyond Paradise airs tonight, Friday, April 19 on BBC One at 8 pm. Previous episodes are available to catch up on BBC iPlayer. 

The Beyond Paradise season 2 finale airs on Friday, April 26 at 8 pm.