Coke and sex shame of Corrie's Dev

 
Jimmi's ruled by cocaine,
he can't get enough of it.
He's out of control

By Mazher Mahmood, Investigations Editor

THE pictures on these pages deliver startling proof of the sickening depths to which Coronation Street star Jimmi Harkishin has sunk through snorting cocaine.

The sordid scenes were captured on video in the early hours of Tuesday morning as the actor revelled in a night out with pals —behind the back of his long-term partner and mother of his two children.

Harkishin—adored by millions as corner shop romeo Dev Alahan—was caught eagerly sniffing lines of the drug off a lover's kitchen worktop.

The girlfriend involved was stunning blonde model and TV presenter Miranda Lipinski (right)—who was earlier seduced into a night of cocaine-fuelled sex with 45-year-old Harkishin at her north London home.

Last night she revealed: "Jimmi's life is totally ruled by drugs. He just can't get enough cocaine. He's out of control and needs help. I've seen a lot of it in the modelling world but Jimmi's in a different league.

Disgrace

"What's annoying is that he presents himself as a normal family man. But he sneaks away from them for coke and sex sessions on the side."

Our revelations will enrage the top soap's bosses, already fed up with Harkishin's off-screen antics heaping disgrace on the show.

Last month their wayward star —notorious for a string of illicit affairs—was cautioned by cops after being caught shoplifting, switching price tags on a designer sweater, in a London department store.

But he LIED to studio chiefs, claiming the incident didn't happen.

Arrogant Harkishin—recently at the centre of the smash-hit screen storyline where his jealous ex wrecked Dev's wedding, torched his shops and tried to murder him and bride Sunita—also lied to bosses about his fling with Miranda.

After they were snapped leaving a club together he got the studio to issue a statement saying: "Jimmi denies any association with her. He met her that night and has not seen her before or since."

But Miranda, 25, told us how even on the day of that denial Harkishin was plaguing her with phone calls and txt messages begging for more.

"He pestered me at all hours," said Miranda. "I can only think his behaviour was the result of cocaine." Miranda, who hosts Grab A Grand on the Get Lucky satellite channel, was introduced to the star by mutual friend Giles Allen, who fixes celebrity personal appearances.

She recalled: "Giles knew I'd split from my husband and needed cheering up. When Jimmi spoke on the phone he sounded nice.

"I was flattered a soap star wanted to meet me. He told me he was ‘the Indian David Essex' and kept talking about his role in the Street. He was trying to impress me."

The pair first met on November 24 when they went to a party at London's Embassy Club.

"I thought he looked much older than he does on screen," she said. "But I knew he found me attractive. His eyes were fixed on my body.

"We got on quite well but I found him vain, standing in the centre of the VIP suite lapping up the attention. He kept trying to get close and was very touchy-feely."

It didn't take long for Miranda to discover Harkishin's dark secret.

"He kept disappearing with Giles to the toilets and I knew he was up to something," she told us.

"They'd come back sniffing, giggling and all hyper. This happened at least five times." Just before they left, Harkishin emerged from the loo with tell-tale white powder still on his nose.

Harkishin took Miranda to a friend's house where a group of seven took drugs and watched MTV into the early hours.

"Everyone kept going to the toilet, doing lines of cocaine," said Miranda. "At one point Jimmi openly asked me to do a line with him.

"I felt like I had to do it to be in with him and his crowd of mates.

Groping

"During the evening he got more and more amorous, his hands wandering up and down my thighs. He began whispering silly things in my ear and groping me. He didn't care who was watching, or that I was feeling uncomfortable.

"I told him I'd read about him and his affairs but he tried to say it was all a massive conspiracy. He said the Corrie cast hated him and so did the press."

As the night went on the drugs began to affect Harkishin's behaviour. "He started rambling and talking nonsense," said Miranda.

"He even said he wanted to marry me and asked how many children we should have." Harkishin then took her to Allen's house in Pinner, north London, where the partying continued. Now the drug taking was out in the open. The pals took turns to snort off the lounge table using a £20 note.

Miranda added: "They were arguing about the quality of the coke, with Jimmi saying he usually got much better stuff.

"But I got worried when they started talking about threesomes and I made it clear I wasn't into that kind of scene."

At around 8am Miranda and Harkishin went to her home. "The only reason I invited him back was because my sister is a big Corrie fan," said Miranda. "I thought it would be a hell of a surprise for her. But she'd already left.

"Once he got through my front door Jimmi pounced on me. He pinned me to the wall and started kissing me all over. He was like a man possessed—slobbering like a puppy and tearing my dress off. At one point he was licking my body from top to bottom."

The pair ended up in the bedroom where Harkishin quickly snorted another line of coke off the dressing table before launching into sex. "He'd like to think he was a great lover but he was very average," insisted Miranda.

"He was selfish and the stuff he came out with while making love was a real turn-off. His pledges of undying love were so over the top. After all, I'd only just met the bloke.

"The sex was over very quickly and afterwards I kept thinking, ‘Why did I sleep with him?'"

Harkishin left before noon saying he had to get home to his partner Susan Beaton. But the actor was soon hungry for more and bombarded Miranda with calls and messages.

She told us: "He claimed I was all he could think about. And he kept asking me to say I loved him. It was so overdone I thought he must be high on drugs again."

After turning down several invitations to go away with the star, Miranda agreed to dinner at Café Café in Harrow, north London.

"Throughout the date he kept groping me under the table which was embarrassing," said Miranda. "And he made at least five visits to the toilet, saying ‘I'm just going to powder my nose' and wriggling his nostrils like a hamster.

"His plan was to convince me I was more than a one-night stand and that he wanted more. But by now I'd realised how false this man was and really felt people should know about his secret double life and drug abuse. He is NOT the nice family man he pretends to be.

Licked

"His life is ruled by cocaine and I couldn't even think of being with someone like that."

It was on Monday, after Harkishin and Allen took Miranda for a drink, that they all ended up in the kitchen at her home.

Miranda told us: "When I announced I had no food Giles replied, ‘Who wants food!' After asking if he could use my worktop for ‘recreational purposes' he pulled out a bag of coke and poured it out.

"He cut up the lines with a credit card and snorted the drug through a rolled-up MOT certificate."

Then Harkishin bent down and followed suit. "Oooh!" he said as he lifted his head and licked crumbs of powder from his fingers.

He then asked Miranda to join in. "Are you going to meddle with this, Hon?" he said. "Have a half, come on! We'll have a bit each, come on!"

As Harkishin got stuck into another line Miranda pretended to join in. And last night she admitted she regrets ever meeting the star.

"After sleeping with Jimmi I've now discovered I'm pregnant," she revealed. "But my worst nightmare would be if HE is the father."

When we challenged Harkishin last night about his drug taking he said: "I've no idea what you're talking about."