Coronation Street Blog

Friday 18 October 2024

Preview of tonight's Coronation Street - Friday 18 October 2024

Friday 18th October 2024

RONNIE GETS A NASTY SURPRISE Ronnie rumbles Debbie’s plan for a surprise party to mark his 55th birthday. But his good mood falters when Kit and a colleague arrive to question him and Ed. Ronnie insists he was home alone the night Joel went missing, while Ed claims he was at No.3 with Dee-Dee and Michael. Ronnie explains he last used the satnav when he and Michael helped Joel move out of his flat ages ago. At the party Michael reveals they actually drove to Joel’s flat in his car that time, Debbie realises Ronnie lied to her. What will she do?

Declaring he wants to get to know Gail’s kids, Jesse treats David, Sarah and Nick to lunch in the Rovers. After being quizzed on his finances and revealing he’s expecting cash from the sale of his marital home, David advises Sarah to forget about Damon’s missing money. When Jesse hurries out of the pub, Sarah follows him to Victoria Gardens. Is Jesse hiding something? Leanne tells Toyah that both of them should move out of the flat to help Nick and Sam. She tells Toyah she has rented the salon flat but Toyah should find her own place.

ELSEWHERE Encountering Lauren at the bar, Nick asks how she found sleeping on the sofa at No.8 the other week. Bobby finds Max and Lauren in the Rovers Max makes a swift exit, and Bobby queries why they’ve been acting so shifty. When Lauren also beats a hasty retreat, Bobby. Jenny suggests to Chesney that Gemma might like to come back to work but Chesney firmly insists that it’s too soon. Will Gemma agree? baffled.

Glenda Young

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Wednesday 16 October 2024

Preview of tonight's Coronation Street - Wednesday 16 October 2024

Wednesday 16th October 2024

Kit reveals to Lisa that Joel died from two blows to the head, inflicted by a heavy weapon, most likely a crowbar. Lisa is shocked to discover from Yasmeen that she threw Mason out because he had a crowbar. Betsy is intrigued when her mum tells her to stay away from Mason. Betsy warns Mason that the police are onto him. Behind the factory, Mason disposes of the crowbar in a bin but is caught in the act by Kit. Dee-Dee explains to Ronnie that the police believe Joel was attacked with a crowbar.

Sam prepares a romantic meal at the flat to try and get Leanne and Nick back together but disaster strikes when he uses a sharp knife to try and open some oysters. Sam calls on Asha at No.7 and shows her a gash he’s made in his hand. Asha takes a woozy Sam to hospital to have stitches. How will Nick and Leanne react when they discover his plans to get them together have resulted in him being injured?

While examining his finances to work out how to buy No.8, David’s guarded as Jesse offers to lend a hand and reveals he’s taking Gail on a trip to Whitby. As Sarah and David reckon he’s acting strangely, the conversation is cut by the arrival of an estate agent putting up a “for sale” sign. When Adam lets slip that Jesse may have overheard him and Daniel discussing Damon’s hidden loot, Sarah becomes adamant that Jesse took it and asks David to help her prove it. Will David comply?

ELSEWHERE Gemma tells Chesney she doesn’t want Joseph to go on the school skiing trip. Realising she fears for his safety after losing Paul, Chesney reassures her.

A troubled Joseph tells Chesney he doesn’t want to go and cause her stress. At the hospital, a doctor informs Lauren and Max that Frankie’s doing well enough to be discharged next month. Bobby promises Lauren that he and Max will be around to help her with Frankie. Bobby admits to Max that his feelings for Lauren are unchanged and he longs to be with her.

Glenda Young

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Tuesday 15 October 2024

Coronation Street stars Julie Hesmondhalgh and Shelley King unite for new project

Coronation Street stars from past and present are teaming up to front a major new campaign.

Yasmeen Nazir actor Shelley King, and former Hayley Cropper actor Julie Hesmondhalgh, have

joined forces with modern slavery charity Causeway for their Stand With Survivors campaign.

Also involved are EastEnders’ Maisie Smith and Emmerdale’s Charlie Hardwick.

In recent years, modern slavery cases across the UK have been on the rise. It is estimated

that over 50 million people worldwide are currently trapped in modern slavery and

exploitation, with over 100,000 of those in the UK.

Now former Hayley Cropper actor Julie Hesmondhalgh, who played the popular

Coronation Street character until her tragic onscreen death in 2014, is to front a new

campaign for UK modern slavery charity Causeway, called Stand With Survivors. Julie isn’t

alone, alongside her fronting the campaign is current Coronation Street favourite Shelley

King, who has played Speed Daal co-owner Yasmeen Nazir in the soap for over 10 years.

The Survivors: Life Beyond Exploitation campaign aims to increase awareness around

modern slavery, and educate the public about the signs to look out for which indicate

somebody may be experiencing modern slavery and exploitation.

In a special film that has been produced for the campaign, Julie explains that when it

comes to the number of people currently experiencing modern slavery, “globally,

estimates put this figure at over 50 million”.

Shelley adds that “modern slavery takes many different forms”, and that Causeway, who

are one of the UK’s largest providers of modern slavery support, “exist to support,

empower and create change for survivors”.

Other celebrities fronting the campaign alongside Julie and Shelley, include former

EastEnders actors Maisie Smith, best known as Tiffany Butcher, and Cliff Parisi, who played

Minty Peterson. Two former Emmerdale stars are also involved, Charlie Hardwick, who

played Val Pollard, and Ruby Haswell actor Alicya Eyo. Both Val and Alicya lost their lives

in Emmerdale’s 2015 fairground helicopter crash.

Julie Hesmondhalgh said: “Causeway support some of the most marginalised people in

our society. Their experiences and voices are all too often not heard or valued. I am

honoured to be involved with this Stand With Survivors campaign, and hope it will shine a

much-needed spotlight on modern slavery, and help towards creating lasting change for

the brave survivors affected by it.”

Shelley King said: “Causeway work tirelessly to support modern slavery survivors to rebuild

their lives, and empowering them to live freely and without fear. However, the reality is

that modern slavery is on the rise, and that’s why it’s so important that as a community we

come together, to build a world free from modern slavery, and one where nobody is left

vulnerable and exposed to exploitation.”

Glenda Young

Novelist published by Headline

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Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

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Weatherfield Whodunnit: Flashbacks help Corrie fans put murder suspects in the frame

The hunt for a murderer is on in a huge Weatherfield Whodunnit.

In Monday night’s shock episode of Coronation Street viewers saw Joel Deering’s body surface from a river before a post mortem revealed that he was in fact dead before he entered the water and this was no suicide.

As DC Kit Green (Jacob Roberts) announced Joel’s death was now being treated as a murder investigation we saw a look of fear cross the faces of a number of Weatherfield residents.

Over the coming weeks a series of exhilarating flashbacks will help viewers piece the puzzle together as we follow the police trying to solve one of the street’s biggest ever Whodunnits.

Officially the detective now leading the case, Kit begins his investigation by informing both Lauren (Cait Fitton) and Dee-Dee (Channique Sterling-Brown), the two women whose lives Joel threatened to destroy with his abuse and lies, of his murder.

But as the mystery deepens these stylised flashbacks will reveal just how many people are in the frame as we revisit the night of September 27th when Joel went missing, he was not a well liked man!

As a number of Coronation Street favourites fall under suspicion, we’ll see the suspects highlighted on our very own crime wall photo.

The first to be revealed this week are Ronnie (Vinta Morgan), uncle of Joel’s wronged fiance Dee-Dee, and Mason (Luca Toolan), the bad boy bully from the wrong side of town who has seemingly been turning his life around in recent weeks.

In Wednesday’s episode viewers will watch the first climactic flashback as we return to that fateful night when Joel disappeared and watch events unfold.

As the evidence mounts, we’ll see Kit pulled in all directions, while DS Swain (Vicky Myers), who was made to take a step back from the case, sets about her own inquiries.

As the plot thickens with many more twists and turns to come, who was really responsible for Joel’s death and how long will it take Kit and Lisa to catch the killer?

Glenda Young

Novelist published by Headline

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

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