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Gruesome discovery made in Coronation Street after bloody Christmas Day attack | Soaps
Evelyn Plummer (Maureen Lipman) makes a gruesome discovery on Boxing Day in Coronation Street. As she makes her way through the ginnel she finds someone slumped on the ground, having been left for dead.
But who is it and who attacked them?
To find out we need to look no further than the Rovers Return, and the Driscoll family and their various guests around the Christmas dinner table. Basically it’s a seething mass of tensions, one of those Corrie Christmas dinners where you know everything is about to explode.
Eva Price (Catherine Tyldesley) is not in the best of moods, after something her daughter says about wanting a baby brother or sister triggers memories of a secret that she’s keeping from Ben (Aaron McCusker).
She confides in Adam Barlow (Sam Robertson) about what’s bothering her, and her mother-in-law Maggie (Pauline McLynn) spots them together and becomes convinced that there’s something going on between the two – especially after she sees Adam hand a package to Eva.
The package is actually a Christmas present for Alya (Sair Khan), as Maggie finds out when she looks for it in Eva’s bag. But she also makes another discovery in the bag, a letter that Eva has written, at Adam’s suggestion, to try to work through her secret problem.
Maggie is fuming that Eva has been keeping this secret from Ben, so she plots to reveal it in the most dramatic way possible – just as everyone is unwrapping their presents.
As if that wasn’t drama enough, Maggie has also invited Daniel Osbourne (Rob Mallard) and his son Bertie to stay for lunch.
Daniel has recently started going out with Megan (Beth Nixon), the woman who, as far as the Driscolls are concerned, is Will (Lucas Hodgson-Wale)’s sports coach. But viewers know that Megan has been grooming the much younger Will and they’ve been having an illicit relationship. Will thinks of himself as Megan’s boyfriend, so he’s fuming as he watches Daniel and Megan together.
When Maggie hands out the Secret Santa gifts, Ben is totally dumbfounded by what he sees when he opens his, as Maggie revels in the fact that her daughter-in-law’s true colours (as she sees it) will finally be exposed.
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Hi, I’m Calli Kitson, Soaps reporter at Metro. I cover Emmerdale, EastEnders, Corrie and more.
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The whole occasion descends into chaos as accusations are thrown, there are some shocking revelations and fists fly as violence erupts.
One member of the Driscoll family is thrown out of their own pub, while another person meets a nasty fate and is eventually found by Evelyn in the ginnel the next day.
We’re going to have to wait to find out the identity of both victim and attacker, but it’s safe to say it’s a Christmas with long-lasting repercussions for a lot of people. Will everyone make it through to New Year alive?
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