Corrie bosses reveal why Lucy Fallon will return to soap four years later – with huge change for Bethany Platt
CORONATION Street favourite Bethany Platt will return to the cobbles after four years away - and she’s not a girl anymore.
Lucy Fallon will reprise her role as Bethany around Christmas - and as The Sun exclusively revealed, she’s got her eye on ex Daniel Osbourne (Rob Mallard) at just the right time.
Bethany left Weatherfield in 2020 after getting a job offer from a fashion company in London.
Before she left, Daniel proposed to her with his late wife Sinead Connor's (Katie McGlynn) ring and Bethany realised he wasn't over her death.
She said her goodbyes to Daniel, Bertie and her family in tear-jerking scenes.
Corrie boss Iain Macleod has teased Bethany's returning storyline will involve her former flame Daniel, who is currently engaged to Daisy Midgeley (Charlotte Jordan).
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Iain explained: “Into the middle of this really very volatile cocktail arrives Bethany, who’s obviously got lots of history with Daniel, and that very much sharpens Daisy’s focus in terms of how she feels about Daniel.
“Suddenly this guy that she may have been starting to move away from, possibly by force of will, suddenly there’s a romantic threat on the cards and that recalibrates how she feels about the whole enterprise.
“It’s a really brilliant, classic soap story I think. We were, without duplicating anything, attempting to go for something that had the same level of emotional heft as some of the classic affairs of yore - the Deirdre and Mike stuff, something that’s a love triangle for the ages I suppose.
“It’s going to run deep into next year as all these unresolved feelings are buried but like all good buried feelings, they all come back to the surface with a bang or two across the following twelve months.
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“So Bethany’s back and we’re all fantastically excited to have her back, she’s incredibly well liked around the building, the viewers love her.
“She’s a slightly different proposition now from when we last saw her - there’s been a number of years that have elapsed, she’s grown up quite a lot, she’s had the beginnings of a successful journalism career in London and she turns back up and is instantly a foe for Daisy.
“They’re very evenly matched now - Bethany might once have seemed like a younger woman or a girl; she’s very much more a woman now, more on Daisy’s level, so it’s a really heavyweight tussle between these two women, which I’m really looking forward to seeing more of.
Ian also revealed that Bethany will be at the centre of a huge cobbles story next year.
He said: “Much like Bobby, Jack Carroll’s character, she will also find herself in the centre of this huge story that we’ve got next year.
“So she’s coming back with this clear romantic purpose in the Daniel story but then will fairly quickly find herself in the midst of this massive story that’s going to span most of next year.
“It’s really exciting stuff and the performances in this character group are just off the chart.”
Coronation Street airs Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8pm on ITV1 and ITX.