Jane Danson addresses viewer ‘split’ over controversial Coronation Street storyline

Coronation Street’s Jane Danson has been reflecting connected the audience’s absorption to a storyline she’s been progressive successful for astir of this year.

Shortly aft 2024 began, Jane’s quality Leanne Battersby met a antheral called Rowan Cunliffe (Emrhys Cooper) astatine a hotel. At the time, helium claimed helium was holding a seminar astir self-help and positivity.

Leanne was instantly drawn into what Rowan was up to arsenic a effect of his charming personality. Very quickly, she became funny successful The Institute and started to prioritise going to their meetings implicit spending clip with Nick (Ben Price) and Sam (Jude Riordan).

As Nick and Toyah (Georgia Taylor) worked retired that Rowan was really the person of a cult, Leanne became much brainwashed. Eventually, she believed the organisation cared much astir her needs than her existent relatives.

The wool was pulled from Leanne’s eyes around the clip of learning Rowan was blackmailing Toyah and Nick. They were having an matter down Leanne’s back, and Rowan had secured photographs of them kissing.

This, along with Amy’s (Elle Mulvaney) engagement in the group, pb to Rowan getting arrested. He pleaded not blameworthy and successful upcoming episodes, Leanne volition look him successful court.

Reflecting connected the storyline, histrion Jane Danson precocious told america astir the absorption she received from fans.

‘I deliberation the absorption to it was a spot of a split, if I’m honest. I deliberation immoderate radical liked it and immoderate radical did it, and I wholly bargain that due to the fact that Leanne is specified a beardown character. But I watched documentaries, and you spot these intelligent radical with large jobs, with families, with houses, with assets, and they get taken by these people.

‘And I suppose, depending connected wherever you are successful your beingness and what’s going on, who knows what is possible? I loved moving with Emryhs [Cooper aka Rowan]. He was truthful lovely, and helium and conscionable loved being present and helium was precise fashionable with the cast. He was conscionable a positive, beauteous feline and I truly miss him. Also, this communicative was different section for Leanne, for which I’m ever grateful.’

‘I conscionable deliberation she conscionable feels a spot of a fool, really’, Jane explained, pondering implicit however Leanne is feeling earlier the trial.

‘Now it’s each similar it each travel retired and she’s realised that she’d been sucked in. This is benignant of the commencement of her trying to beryllium herself, her decisions and wherefore she’s wherefore she did what she did. She says this beauteous code astatine the trial, wherever she’s conscionable saying however atrocious she was for everything she’s done, but she was striving to beryllium better. She wasn’t trying to wounded anyone. And successful the mediate of that, evidently Nick and Toyah got unneurotic and each fell apart.’

She added: ‘I deliberation yet she conscionable feels atrocious for Amy due to the fact that she mislaid each her inheritance, and it’s her mode of trying to marque amends with each that. She’s conscionable trying to repair each the harm that’s been caused by each the worldly that’s been played retired with The Institute implicit the past year. This is climax to each that successful a mode but it does unfastened up immoderate doors to immoderate different things.’

Amid each of this, Leanne knows that Nick and Toyah are continuing their affair.

‘It’s conscionable the pits for her!’, Jane sighed.

‘She was implicit the archetypal clip to a point. Leanne knows that she did marque immoderate atrocious decisions, and though she didn’t hold with what Toyah and Nick did, she tin recognize wherefore it mightiness person happened. She loves Toyah truthful overmuch that she was prepared to forgive her. So, to find retired that their matter is continuing – basically, she’s astatine the extremity of her rope.

‘Toyah has benignant of taken retired her full beingness from Leanne and she resents that hugely. It’s large to play out!’