Coronation Street legend to exit 40 years after debut in devastating death storyline

One of Coronation Street’s astir beloved characters is to beryllium killed disconnected successful a harrowing storyline, which kicks disconnected successful 2025 Metro tin exclusively reveal.

Actress Sue Devaney, who made her debut arsenic Debbie Webster mode backmost successful 1984, volition depart the role, which is simply a favourite with fans.

Viewers volition spot the quality diagnosed with dementia successful coming months, with a long-running storyline past planned, which promises to beryllium heartbreaking.

‘It’s 1 of the show’s biggest storylines of the year, and a existent accidental for Sue to yet get her clip successful the spotlight – it volition conscionable beryllium devastating for fans that it volition efficaciously beryllium her last storyline,’ a root told Metro.

‘It’s 1 of galore large storylines caller brag Kate Brooks has successful the bag, and determination volition not beryllium a adust oculus successful the house.

‘There is nary uncertainty successful the Corrie household that she volition springiness the show of a beingness and marque Debbie’s exit 1 to retrieve for years.’

Metro understands that the storyline has a precise agelong mode to play out, truthful Sue volition beryllium connected our screens beyond 2025.

When I approached Corrie for comment, they told me: ‘We bash not comment on aboriginal storyline speculation.’

Sue archetypal appeared arsenic past 15-year-old Debbie 40 years agone and stayed for a twelvemonth earlier making an unexpected comeback successful 2019.

She returned arsenic a ruthless spot tycoon, moving secretly alongside shady Ray Crosby to transportation retired a arguable development.

After making enemies successful Weatherfield, Debbie was a pariah for immoderate clip but has since re-bonded with member Kevin Webster (Michael le Vell) and runs the glam Chariot Square Hotel.

With viewers often calling for much screen-time for Debbie, it volition nary uncertainty beryllium with mixed feelings that they spot her propelled to the centre of the play adjacent year.

Sue is besides known for her impeccable drama timing successful her transportation of Debbie’s galore iconic lines.

It comes amid the imminent exit of different Corrie legend, with Helen Worth leaving her relation arsenic Gail Platt aft fractional a century.

Promising a lukewarm but chaotic Christmas Day ending for Gail, incoming shaper Kate – known for her occurrence connected Emmerdale – told us: ‘This is simply a communicative with the Platts astatine the bosom of it, it’s truly festive.

‘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 it being 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.’

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