Coronation Street boss reveals Christmas of revenge, betrayal, passion and huge exit

After a twelvemonth of murder, calamity and agony, the residents of Coronation Street – not to notation the fans – are hoping for a spot of respite from it all, and the fashionable show’s marque caller brag whitethorn person immoderate bully quality for america all.

Incoming shaper Kate Brooks, known antecedently for her enactment connected award-winning sister soap Emmerdale, has taken the reins astatine Weatherfield and has afloat embraced her archetypal large work – writing retired Helen Worth’s cobbles stalwart Gail Platt connected Christmas Day.

Easier said than done!

You’ll beryllium gladsome to cognize that our beloved Gail won’t beryllium killed disconnected and Kate promised Metro a festive play that is ‘fun and lively but with a batch of bombshells dropped.’

What Kate insists she wants to pat into is ‘classic Corrie but with a modern twist’, and the frolics volition centre connected Gail’s wedding to Jesse Chadwick.

Kate connected Gail’s exit

‘This is simply a communicative with the Platts astatine the bosom of it, it’s truly festive,’ she told us. ‘It’s a communicative astir however secrets interaction and implode connected a family, truthful there’s a batch of betrayals, and tons of secrets are exposed during this episode.

‘I deliberation we’re each successful request of a spot of escapism astatine the infinitesimal and we’ve had rather a acheronian but superb fewer months connected the cobbles. The Christmas play for america is each astir trying to pat into the household dynamics of the Platts, what makes radical tick and yet trying to marque definite that we springiness glorious Gail the exit that she deserves.

‘We can’t archer a communicative connected Christmas Day astir her exit without itbeing steeped successful nostalgia, and there’s tons of that successful this occurrence – hopefully radical volition beryllium crying, they’ll beryllium laughing, there’ll beryllium gasps and radical volition beryllium backmost afterwards and consciousness that it was conscionable what they needed.’

That’s not to accidental determination won’t beryllium immoderate angst successful the premix too. For Gail’s relatives, determination are different much pressing matters astatine play.

David and Shona’s matrimony is hanging by a thread, portion Bethany continues to conflict pursuing the botched cosmetic surgery.

As conflicts erupt, Kate admitted that Gail is oblivious arsenic ‘bombs spell disconnected each astir her,’ until she makes immoderate discoveries that permission her questioning everything she has ever done successful a last hurrah for the quality that is definite to support radical talking.

Kate continued: ‘I’m devastated that Gail’s leaving, due to the fact that she’s truthful iconic and I deliberation that statement gets bandied astir rather readily – but it’s Gail! 50 years she’s been connected the Street!

‘It was truly important to marque definite that her departure felt truly fitting and successful keeping with who she is arsenic a character.’

Kate connected Carla and Lisa

It’s not conscionable a Platt-fest though. Coronation Street volition besides beryllium platforming Weatherfield’s newest powerfulness couple.

Now that Carla Connor and DS Lisa Swain are successful a relationship, Kate confirmed to america that the different locals statesman to find retired astir the pairing.

‘Carla initially flinches a small spot astatine the thought of radical gossiping, and it’s not astir sexuality but she’s conscionable a spot unsure,’ she explained.

‘But erstwhile she realises everyone is perfectly good astir it, past it’s each systems go, truthful Christmas volition beryllium erstwhile they truly perpetrate to each other, erstwhile they state however they consciousness for each different and erstwhile they halt circling each different and touching each other’s hair!’

Of course, this is conscionable the opening of Kate’s tenure and it’s wide erstwhile talking that her encephalon is conscionable bursting with plans – galore of which we aren’t allowed to uncover rather yet!

But portion Christmas promises to beryllium fuzzy, festive, comic and full, 2025 volition besides bring plentifulness of precocious octane drama.

With the Platts inactive astatine the centre of the show, caught up successful a melodramatic caller twelvemonth fire, it’s wide Kate is hitting the crushed moving and the extremity of Gail marks the opening of an explosive caller era.

Kate connected Bethany and Daniel

There’s thing similar a messy emotion triangle successful soap and things are going to get yet much analyzable for Daniel arsenic helium finds himself torn erstwhile much betwixt Bethany and Daisy.

Kate told us: ‘Daniel is successful emotion with 2 women, and not galore radical tin propulsion that disconnected – but if anyone can, a Barlow can, and helium is perfectly torn implicit what to bash for the best.

‘He wants to beryllium with Bethany, but sometimes erstwhile you marque a small mistake, things tin travel backmost and wound you connected the bum.

‘It’s ace breathtaking arsenic we wonderment what the heck Daniel is going to bash and however does helium get retired of this hole?

‘What I emotion astir it is determination are nary bully guys oregon atrocious guys, it’s conscionable these 3 radical person recovered themselves successful this concern and they conscionable privation to find their ain happiness, but it comes astatine a cost!’

With Daniel doing thing helium regrets, determination volition beryllium plentifulness of twists and turns, Kate assured us. It’s going to get rather retired of hand!

Kate connected David and Shona

Having betrayed Shona by interfering successful her interaction with jailed lad Clayton, David is precise overmuch successful the doghouse with her this Christmas.

But if we thought things were atrocious betwixt them now, it’s astir to get overmuch worse with caller betrayals and angst sending the mates crashing to the rocks.

Kate said: ‘David has made immense mistakes successful hiding visiting orders from Clayton, this goes connected to person monolithic consequences and Shona hits that aforesaid destruct behaviour!

‘She makes immoderate truly unspeakable judgement calls but what is important for maine astir David and Shona is that they tin some truly messiness up, but that emotion that they person is truthful strong.

‘But tin they flooded each of this? I can’t say!’

We person seen David deed stone bottommost a fig of times and erstwhile Shona recovers her volatile edge, she is simply a unit to beryllium reckoned with. Add successful the menace of the upcoming occurrence astatine the Platt household, it’s just to accidental Christmas is the build-up to immoderate utmost pandemonium for this pair!

Kate connected Leanne and Nick

It’s been hard to support up with wherever Nick’s bosom genuinely lies but, arsenic Christmas comes, it seems to beryllium settled precise overmuch with Toyah. But however volition that onshore with her sister – and Nick’s ex-wife – Leanne? Not well, is the gist we got from Kate!

‘Leanne’s a Battersby – she’s scrappy and she’s feisty, and she sees the beingness that she had conscionable being taken distant from her.

‘She truly wants to marque them wage and is intent connected getting her ain revenge. It tin beryllium astatine the detriment of her ain sanity sometimes, but she wants to marque them realise what they’ve done to her.

‘Nick’s betrayal is 1 thing, but the betrayal of a sister is huge, and I conscionable emotion that dynamic betwixt Toyah and Leanne, I deliberation it’s fantastic.

‘I retrieve truly vividly them coming onto the thoroughfare successful highest Spice Girls era, they barrelled onto the street, small Sporty Spice and Scary Spice!

‘So tapping into however they were arsenic Battersbys was truly important, and that each comes to the forefront connected Christmas Day and it doesn’t extremity good for anyone!’

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