Coronation Street weekly update – November 30 2019

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I love it when Coronation Street and ITV keep a spoiler to themselves. No secrets leaked to the press. No teasers given to the soap sites. Just a shock unfolding on screen in front of fans. This week was one of those weeks. Jade the nanny at Fiz and Tyrone’s house turns out to be John Stape’s daughter, therefore half-sister to Hope.  We find this out when she goes to lay some flowers at John’s grave but not before she causes mayhem at Fiz and Tyrone’s house first. There’s a fire in the backyard and Hope gets the blame – but it’s all Jade’s doing. Jade encourages Hope to act up in front of Fiz and causes all kinds of problems for the family. But when a letter arrives from Bessie Street School to say Hope can return, there’s no need for Jade to stay. She leaves Hope alone on the sofa as she creeps out into the night, but gives Hope a phone and tells her it’s their secret. So although Jade has gone, the secret sisters have their secret phones. I wonder if this means she’ll be back?

In other news this week was a heartbreaking scene with Paul facing up to the abuse he’d received as a young boy from his mam’s fella, Kel. The storyline redeems the horrible Bernie of course, when she shows how protective she is towards Paul and Gemma too. With Billy’s help and support, Paul agrees to see a counsellor and the next step is to make a statement to the police. Will Paul be strong enough to see it all the way through?

Elsewhere, Roy visits his brother as often as he can. Richard is dying and has a carer coming to visit him. Roy is appalled that the carer spends so little time with Richard (has Roy not seen the Ken Loach film ‘Sorry We Missed You’ yet?) and Roy complains to social services. Nina’s angry at Roy for getting involved as social services say they’ll come out to do a review, which Nina is concerned might mean they’ll be even worse off than they were before.

Over at Underworld, Sally waxes lyrical about pants after the workers demand a slide and a Google-type play zone in the factory. I’m not really sure what’s going on to be honest at the factory. Nick seems to be in a strop, Sarah wants to be in charge meanwhile Gary seems to hold something of the balance of power and I’m really not sure what it is any more.

Likewise with the Michelle and Robert story, I gave up on that long ago. Michelle tells Carla she wants the wedding to go ahead so she can take Robert for everything he’s got. If anything else happened in this story this week, please let me know. I deliberately record Corrie these days just so I can fast forward through every single one of these scenes.

And finally this week, at Roy’s Rolls Mary puts up fairy lights and tinsel much to Roy’s disdain. It’s too early, he says (it is) and it’s a health and safety risk in the café (he’s right) but still she marches on. There’s a light-up reindeer installed on the wall outside of the café but when the lights fizzle out and Adam walks by there’s a glorious line from Mary.  “I wouldn’t mind giving your fuse box the once over,” she leers. Wonderful stuff.

And that’s just about that for this week.

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This week’s writers were Jonathan Harvey (Monday); Martin Allen and Mark Wadlow (Wednesday), Damon Alexis-Rochefort (Friday). Find out all about the Coronation Street writing team at Coronation Street Blog: Exclusive: All Current Corrie writers online

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