Bethany Platt’s days on the cobbles of Coronation Street are numbered - and it’s her romantic life wth Daniel Osbourne that will lead her to leave, says a top show boss.
Fans of the long-running ITV soap have been offered an insight into the circumstance of Bethany’s departure as actress Lucy Fallon is due to quit the show in the new year.
Viewers have watched Bethany fall for Daniel (played by Rob Mallard) in recent weeks on the soap - but her new lover’s grief for his lost wife Sinead Tinker looks set to derail the blossoming romance.
For while Bethany has been offering solace for Dan, he is said to be struggling to deal with his grief after losing his wife to cancer.
Coronation Street producer Iain MacLeod has hinted that Bethany’s departure from the cobbles will be linked to Daniel’s struggles to move on.
“There’s the interesting next chapter in the Daniel and Bethany story which is about Daniel’s grief,” he told Metro.co.uk.
“Soaps can struggle to tell a realistic grief timeline – there comes a point where viewers find it dark and downbeat but I think we’ve found a clever way to realistically play out the next chapter of that,” he continued.
“In one of their heads it’s a romance but in the others it’s a lot more complicated. It’s a really interesting grief story where it’s not just about Daniel sitting alone in his flat, feeling lonely. It will ultimately form part of Lucy Fallon’s exit story,” he added.
Soaps are well known for their dreary and depressing content - so fans might not be surprised to hear there will be dark times ahead for Bethany and Daniel.
Meanwhile, actress Lucy,, 24, said she was ready to leave the soap to try different roles - having played Bethany since 2015.
"I will be sad but I'm excited to see what's going to happen in the future, although I have no idea what's going to happen,” she told Digital Spy back in May when she first decided to quit.
"When I leave I'll have been there for five years and I've never done anything else, so I just want to try new things and do new things," she added.
Coronation Street will also air a drama fuelled Christmas Special episode on December 25 on ITV at 8pm.
