This article contains spoilers for tonight’s Coronation Street, which has not yet aired on TV but is available to watch now on ITVX.
A beloved Coronation Street star has left the cobbles 10 years after her first scenes on the show, after a dramatic storyline.
Tonight’s episode saw Bethany Platt (Lucy Fallon) bid the cobbles farewell as she set off to start anew in London after a dramatic year.
Bethany returned to Coronation Street last year, and took no time at all in reconnecting with former flame Daniel Osbourne (Rob Mallard).
Over the next twelve months, she caused rumblings among the local community as she tried to get her journalism career off the ground, and was later horrified to learn that abuser Nathan Curtis had been released from prison.
Her life was changed completely last autumn when she underwent plastic surgery in Turkey, but was left needing a permanent stoma bag after the procedure went wrong.
Since then, things have been tense between her and Daniel, especially with former fiancé Daisy Midgeley (Charlotte Jordan) still on the scene.
On Christmas Day, Daniel proposed to Bethany, which she gladly accepted, unaware that Daisy had just found out she was pregnant.
With Daisy and Daniel having had a one night stand a few weeks earlier, there was every possibility that the baby was Daniel’s.
Recently, things once again grew tense between Daniel and Bethany when she accepted a new job in London, and asked him to consider a trial move.
After a discussion with Daisy, he agreed, and smug Bethany wasted no time in celebrating at the Rovers.
However, as she revealed that she and Daniel had set a wedding date, Daisy blew their relationship apart by revealing that Daniel could be the father of her baby.
Distraught, Bethany ended their relationship and decided to go ahead with the move to London alone.
In tonight’s episode, she avoided Daniel like the plague, with Sarah Platt (Tina O’Brien) sending him off with a second-hand gift card as a farewell token from Bethany.
As Bethany prepared to get into the taxi, she revealed her guilt at leaving while her family was in crisis after their house fire.
However, Sarah urged her to go and bring them some good news, so Bethany headed off for pastures new.
Her exit is not set to be a permanent one, as actress Lucy Fallon is currently on maternity leave.
She recently welcomed her second child, daughter Nancy Margaret, with footballer partner Ryan Ledson.
The actress previously told her Instagram followers that she would be returning to set after ‘popping the baby out’, so she will be back before we know it.
Lucy is the first of many cast members set to leave the ITV soap this year, with Sue Cleaver, Charlotte Jordan, Paddy Bever and Shelley King all having announced their exits.
