Coronation Street star confirms Maria’s most challenging situation is coming | Soaps

Oh, Maria Connor. The Coronation Street stalwart has been perennially unlucky in love, hasn’t she?

In her twenty six years on the cobbles, she’s had a run of terrible relationships, including three – if we’re counting the sham one – marriages. Her longest running love story, though, is with her current husband, bad boy with a big heart, Gary Windass (Mikey North).

Gary supported Maria and her son, Liam Connor (Charlie Wrenshall), as he suffered a brutal bullying ordeal, which almost pushed him to harming himself, as the family struggled to secure the necessary support to but an end to Liam’s torment.

While he’s got quite the chequered past – and he did kill a guy that time – Gary has proven time and time again to be a solid presence in Maria’s life, an unwavering pillar of support, loyal and trustworthy…

…although now, Maria’s convinced that she couldn’t trust him as far as she could throw him, and she believes he’s conducting an illicit affair with Sarah Platt (Tina O’Brien).

‘She’s known for a few weeks that something is definitely not right between her and Gary,’ Samia Longchambon mused.

‘She’s been clocking these little sneaky conversations he’s been having with Sarah, and she’s put two and two together. She’s just convinced that they must be sleeping together.’

It’s true, Gary and Sarah have been acting particular strangely in the aftermath of Theo Silverton’s (James Cartwright) murder, with the two having some of the first to discover the beastly builders abuse of Todd Grimshaw (Gareth Pierce).

With the Kit Green’s (Jacob Roberts) dinner party from Hell just around the corner and with Sarah and Gary on the guest list alongside Todd and Summer Spellman (Harriet Bibby), Maria decides to go for the full public execution and, under the guise of making a toast, lays her accusations on the table.

How does Maria feel once she’s pulled the pin out of the grenade? ‘She’s relieved to finally just get it off her chest because it’s been building up for so long.

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‘She’s also incredibly angry at them both because she thinks they’ve been pulling the wool over her and Kit’s eyes.

‘But towards the end of the dinner party, you see that she’s just really hurt. Beneath it all, she’s actually a heartbroken woman who thinks she’s lost her man.’

From there, chaos ensues and the dinner party ends with broken glass everywhere and blood splattered across the dinner table.

‘She’s kind of lit the fuse… so she’s not shocked,’ Samia admitted.

‘This is exactly what she wanted. The moment Kit invited her to the dinner party, she thought ‘Right, brilliant. This is where I’m going to do it. This is where I’m going to confront both of them and let it all out.’

Is this the end of Garia? Mary? …we’ll stick with Gary and Maria!

‘I mean, it could be,’ Samia said, admitting that ‘It’s a lot to get through.’

‘If they can get through this, I feel like they can weather any storm. They’ve been through a lot of trials in their relationship already, but this is definitely the most challenging thing they’ve ever had to navigate.’

Behind the scenes, Samia enthused about the filming of the episode: ‘Oh, it was brilliant!

‘It was so good because Dom Stephenson, our director, let us have an organised read-through first. Then we blocked it out on set in our own clothes, not our character costumes. It almost felt like we were doing a play, like a little spinoff drama for that period of time.

‘It was a real luxury because we don’t usually get that much time to spend on scenes together before we actually film them.’

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