Coronation Street Christmas plot twists revealed with 'betrayals and bombshells’

Coronation Street shaper Kate Brooks opens teases what fans tin expect to travel connected the each important Christmas episode, including a 'glorious' nonstop disconnected for Helen Worth

“Old schoolhouse Corrie with a modern twist” is however caller shaper Kate Brooks describes Corrie’s upcoming Christmas Day which volition spot fans bid goodbye to Gail Platt aft 5 decades.

Having antecedently worked connected Emmerdale and Hollyoaks, Kate’s present bringing her brains to Corrie successful 1 of the astir exciting, and melodramatic Christmases yet for the soap. Earlier this year, Helen Worth confirmed her departure arsenic Gail Platt aft 50 tremendous years. Kate admits she’s “gutted” to spot the icon go, and is making definite she gives her the exit she deserves connected the large day.

“Christmas is each astir tapping into the household dynamics of the Platts and trying to springiness the glorious Gail the exit she deserves. She's been specified an icon connected the thoroughfare for specified a agelong time. 50 years of tv is amazing.”

"We can't archer a communicative connected Christmas Day astir her exit without a feeling and being steeped successful nostalgia and there's tonnes of nostalgia successful this episode,” Kate teases connected the large December 25th episode.

Gail is renowned for her failed relationships, but could she yet get her blessed ever after? After the instrumentality of Jesse Chadwick (John Thomson) pursuing his off-screen escapades successful Thailand with Gail, she took matters into her ain hand, and popped the question.

Although Kate can’t uncover whether the wedding goes up oregon not connected Christmas Day, she teases: “It's a communicative astir household and however secrets tin interaction and implode connected a family. So there's a batch of betrayals, tons of secrets are exposed during this episode.

“She’s recovered retired that immoderate of her nearest and dearest person perfectly betrayed her. She doesn't cognize who to believe. She contemplates and questions everything and each determination she's ever made.”

Although the large beingness alteration for the Platts is Gail’s exit, the younger generations are distracted by different ongoing events successful their lives.

Gail’s girl successful instrumentality Shona Platt (Julia Goulding) hits the self-destruct fastener erstwhile David (Jack P. Shepherd) hides situation visitation notes from her lad Clayton, who murdered David’s ex-wife Kylie.

Meanwhile, Gail’s granddaughter Bethany (Lucy Fallon) gets embroiled successful a emotion triangle with Daniel Osbourne (Rob Mallard) and Daisy Midgeley (Charlotte Jordan), which volition transportation connected passim December and into the opening of January.

It’s not looking bully for Gail’s lad Nick either. After a turbulent 2024, Leanne Battersby’s (Jane Danson) twelvemonth is astir to get a full batch worse arsenic she erstwhile again discovers the concealed narration betwixt her sister Toyah Habeeb (Georgia Taylor) and her erstwhile fiance, Nick Tilsley (Ben Price).

Earlier this year, Leanne was scammed by Rowan Cunliffe (Emrhys Cooper) into investing successful his self-improvement organisation, the Institute.

If that wasn’t enough, it was past revealed her fiance Nick Tilsley was having an matter with her sister Toyah, leaving her devastated. The brace past secretly got backmost unneurotic and a classical Christmas volition spot things travel to blows.

“I felt it was truly important to benignant of spot a antithetic broadside to Leanne. She's had a truly pugnacious year,” says Kate.

“Leanne truly wants to marque them wage and she is intent connected getting her ain revenge,” says Kate. “It tin beryllium astatine the detriment of her ain benignant of sanity sometimes.” An avid Corrie instrumentality since she was younger, Kate reminisces connected erstwhile Leanne and Toyah joined the thoroughfare successful 1997, during the peak Spice Girls era.

“Little Sporty Spice and Scary Spice came barrelling onto the street. For me, conscionable tapping into however they were and however they were arsenic Battersbys was truly important and that benignant of each comes to the forefront connected Christmas Day. It doesn't extremity good for anyone.”

Elsewhere, 2 radical who whitethorn yet get their happily ever aft are Carla Connor (Alison King) and Lisa Swain (Vicky Myers). After months of volition they/won’t they the couple's narration volition yet travel to the forefront during the Christmas period.

Fans of the soap person been rooting for the narration for months, and they’ll yet get their wish. “Christmas volition beryllium erstwhile they truly perpetrate to each other, erstwhile they state however they consciousness astir each other, and erstwhile they halt circling each different and touching each other's hair,” Kate laughs.

However, it wouldn’t beryllium a soap romance if determination weren’t hurdles involved. The 2 person their ain idiosyncratic problems. DS Swain is inactive grieving her precocious wife, who she mislaid successful the enactment of duty, whilst Carla is navigating “unknown and uncharted waters,” during her archetypal narration with a woman.

“We privation to support them secure. We privation to support them grounded. We privation to marque that narration truly believable, and it is similar what I'm seeing connected surface is fantastic betwixt the 2 of them,” Kate says though she tells viewers to expect tons of curveballs.

A jam packed Christmas connected the cobbles is acceptable to person fans connected a roller coaster of emotions, Kate hopes. “Hopefully radical volition beryllium crying, they'll beryllium laughing, there'll beryllium gasps arsenic radical benignant of ticker and go, ohio my goodness, that's conscionable happened! I deliberation radical volition really, truly bask it.”