Coronation Street fans heap praise on Megan actress for ‘superb’ portrayal of ‘deplorable’ character | Soaps

Megan Walsh may be a vile character, but Coronation Street fans are full of praise for actress Beth Nixon who has brought her to life.

The character first hit our screens in November 2025 as Will Driscoll’s (Lucas Hodgson-Wale) athletics coach, though it soon became clear that there was something much more sinister going on.

It transpired that Megan had been grooming Will, which was why he had been so reluctant to leave Hull for Weatherfield – especially when Megan made it clear that she wasn’t prepared to embark on a long-distance relationship.

However, seeing how much the move was upsetting Will, Eva Price (Catherine Tyldesley) and Maggie Driscoll (Pauline McLynn) decided to pay Megan to make the journey to Manchester regularly to continue Will’s athletics training.

It wasn’t long before Megan secured a job at Will’s school and moved to Coronation Street permanently.

She soon embarked on a relationship with fellow teacher Daniel Osbourne (Rob Mallard), which did not go down well with Will. However, Megan justified her actions as being a ploy to keep their relationship hidden.

This only kept Will’s jealousy in check for so long, and on Christmas Day, he finally snapped and attacked Daniel in the ginnel.

Obviously, Daniel caught on to Will’s dislike of him, but Megan explained his attitude away by insisting he had a teenage crush on her.

Unfortunately, Megan’s lies were believed, and things escalated on Will’s 16th birthday when she slept with him.

In recent weeks, she has been fighting to keep her secret under wraps after Sam Blakeman (Jude Riordan) worked out what was going on – and that Will wasn’t Megan’s first victim.

Megan has gone out of her way to scare Sam into keeping quiet, from stealing his essays to threatening to expose him as a ‘creep’.

With his grades affected by her tampering, Sam took to abusing ADHD medication, hoping it would help him study.

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After collapsing and ending up in hospital because of it, Sam finally confessed Megan’s crimes to Eva and Leanne Battersby (Jane Danson), and Megan was arrested after Eva and Ben Driscoll (Aaron McCusker) went to the police.

It can’t be easy to play such a disturbed villain, but fans have praised actress Beth Nixon for her performance in the role.

Taking to social media site Twitter/X, they called for her to be recognised with awards for her portrayal of the ‘deplorable’ character, as they praised her ‘believable’ performance.

Megan marks the first TV role Beth has played, having graduated drama school in 2021.

She previously revealed that she had auditioned for the role of Lauren Bolton, which was ultimately won by actress Cait Fitton, as well as another character involved in that storyline.

‘This is my first TV job, but not the first time I have auditioned for Corrie,’ she explained. ‘I auditioned for the part of Lauren Bolton and then for a girl who was giving Lauren a hard time at the mother and baby unit.’

Beth clearly hasn’t taken the responsibility of playing a role like Megan lightly, and revealed that she had done a lot of research for the storyline.

‘The writing is brilliant and the research team have been working with Barnados, so much of the work has been done for me but I have read newspaper reports about court cases involving female teachers that are very similar to what Megan is doing.

‘There have been a few high profile cases, every situation is different but it brings it home that this is something that is happening in the real world. Hopefully someone who doesn’t realise what is happening to them, that they are being groomed, might see this storyline and realise that what that person is doing is wrong and illegal.’

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