By Mike McCarthy, North Of England Correspondent
Coronation Street star William Roache has flatly denied raping or indecently assaulting girls.
The actor also told jurors at his trial that he did not know any of the five alleged victims who have accused him of the offences.
As soon as he went into the witness box on the first day of his defence case, his barrister Louise Blackwell QC asked him: "Have you committed any of the offences with which you are charged?"
The actor replied: "No. I have not."
The lawyer continued: "Do you have any memory of being in the company of any of these people who have made the allegations against you?"
Roache: "No. Not one of them."
He went on to say that he had an interest in things "beyond the norm and spiritual matters".
The celebrity told the jury that he was hard of hearing because of a mortar bomb explosion he had witnessed while in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Roache arrived at court with his family He said he had wanted to follow his father into the medical profession but found he performed better in arts subjects.
He was asked about his life in the 60s, which he said was dominated by the pressures of rehearsing and filming for Coronation Street.
Speaking from a glass witness box in an assured voice he said that autograph hunters would gather outside Granada studios in Manchester where the programme was filmed.
"I would always stop," he said. "People had been waiting there all day so I liked to give autographs.
"You would wind down your window in the car, you would sign them and then on you go."
He denied ever inviting young fans into his dressing room or onto the Coronation Street set during filming.
"It was an extremely difficult and dangerous thing to do. Basically no - other than occasionally very close family," he said.
Roache's children Verity, James and Linus, have been in the public gallery every day of the trial so far.
The actor denies four charges of indecently assaulting girls and two charges of raping a 15-year-old girl in 1967.
The trial continues.
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