Coronation Street pregnancy storyline 'rumbled' for Cassie - but Ken's not the dad

After a bizarre Coronation Street mentation by fans suggested Cassie Plummer could beryllium large with Ken Barlow's child, different fans present deliberation idiosyncratic other could beryllium the father

There's a caller Coronation Street mentation doing the rounds, with fans predicting a immense pregnancy twist volition stone the cobbles.

Cassie Plummer was precocious astatine the centre of a mentation surrounding a divisive storyline with Ken Barlow, amid her shockingly drugging him this week. With her facing occupation successful the fallout, a country with Steve McDonald this week near fans convinced Cassie would soon find retired she was pregnant.

Fans had initially believed Cassie would extremity up with Ken, astir apt utilizing him with a fake romance to get his money. After their caller vacation together, immoderate fans came up with the unusual mentation that she mightiness beryllium large with Ken's child.

While that seems unlikely, determination was different notation of Cassie and Steve's little romance this week. Now, fans are definite successful a twist she mightiness find retired she's large with Steve's child.

Taking to X, 1 spectator posted: "Cassie is 100% pregnant they’ve mentioned this excessively galore times for it to beryllium insignificant #Corrie." Another agreed: "Next happening Cassie volition beryllium pregnant," portion a 3rd said: "Cassie is gonna beryllium pregnant with Steve’s baby." A 4th asked: "Is Cassie pregnant?"

It comes arsenic Cassie histrion Claire Sweeney addressed the shocking storyline with Ken, which has seen the quality poisoning him. Ken was rushed to infirmary this week aft viewers saw her putting a crushed pill successful his tea.

Speaking astir her daze implicit the plot, she spilled: "I was shocked, it’s Ken Barlow, he’s a nationalist treasure. I’m going to beryllium Public Enemy No 1! I deliberation viewers are going to hatred her. The comic happening is that they’ve conscionable started to similar her – they were yet warming to her – and past this happens.

"In my head, playing her, I’m trying to find redeeming graces, but I don’t cognize if determination volition beryllium any. I’m a Corrie instrumentality and I’d beryllium fuming watching this. Already successful the summertime erstwhile I went connected vacation to Majorca each the aged dears were saying to me: ‘You permission Ken alone,’ ‘Don’t you beryllium upsetting Ken now.’ And that was earlier I’d done anything!"

She went on: "She doesn’t privation to wounded him – she conscionable wants him to request her. She adores Ken. The 2 of them find these moments of implicit affection with each other. They emotion being with each other.

"So, erstwhile Ken says helium can’t spend to support her connected she’s devastated – where’s she going to go, what’s she going to do, who is she going to beryllium with? There’s an choler and a wounded and a feeling of abandonment. It’s not adjacent needfully money-orientated, she likes the beingness she’s got looking aft him. There’s an constituent of Munchausen’s to it."

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