Corrie's Lucy Fallon shares adorable on-screen family pic as she films her final scene
She's bowing out as Bethany Platt
Coronation Street fans were left devastated in September 2019 when Lucy Fallon announced that she would be stepping down from her role as Bethany Platt. Joining the show in 2015 when the already established character of Bethany returned, Lucy revealed in a statement that she'd be leaving the soap in January 2020.
She wrote, 'After the most incredible four years, I have made the extremely difficult decision to leave Coronation Street at the end of my contract in 2020.
'It's hard to put into words how much this show means to me. I've made lifelong friends with some of the most talented people in the industry. Thank you so much for your support and love... Can't wait to see what's in store for Bethany this year.'
And now, Lucy has shared an adorable photo of herself in character as Bethany alongside her on-screen family, made up of Jack P. Shepherd (David Platt), Julia Goulding (Shona Ramsey), Helen Worth (Gail Platt), Sue Nicholls (Audrey Platt), Tina O'Brien (Sarah-Louise Platt) and Ben Price (Nick Tilsley).
She wrote, 'Only 2 more filming days left... a lil space in my ♥️ for this lot 4ever x.' Julia wrote in the comments, 'This makes me so sad 😭 but so excited to see where you go.... I predict far my love, bloody far! Love you Luce! ❤️.'
She also wrote on Twitter that she'd filmed her final scene, despite having two more days of filming left to go. The 24-year-old wrote, 'I filmed my last on screen @itvcorrie scene today 😢 only 2 more filming days left.'
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Later on, when Ruby and Hope are playing and a phone falls out of Hope's toy handbag, Tyrone and Evelyn are shocked when they scroll through the messages to find texts from Jade.
Things get even more intense when Tyrone finds out from Ruby that Jade put the bruises on Hope's arm with make up, and Christine the social worker confirms this with Dr Gaddas.
With Jade finally breaking her silence and telling Christine the truth about Jade, Fiz is allowed to return home, all charges dropped – but Hope doesn't seem happy to see mummy.
When Hope hears Fiz say that Jade will never set foot in her house again she dashes upstairs to ring Jade, who promises they'll be together soon.
The next day, Fiz goes to wake Hope but is horrified to find her bed empty and upon more investigation the back door unlocked.
Immediately suspecting Jade, the police search her house but there is no evidence and Jade insists she doesn't know anything about Hope's disappearance.
But Fiz is unconvinced, and triggered by her experience with John Stape vows to expose Jade, and breaks into her house to gather evidence.
But when Jade arrives home unexpectedly to find Fiz there a row erupts, with Fiz telling Jade she knows she has her daughter.
As things become more heated, a furious Fiz picks up a chopping board and hits Jade over the head with it. Tyrone arrives at the scene to find Jade out cold on the floor, and Fiz standing over her holding the chopping board.
Later that night, Fiz is mortified when the police arrive at her front door looking to question her about an assault on Jade Rowan.
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Arriving home with the shopping, Chesney panics when he sees through the window the house filling up with smoke, and "pedo" written on the window.
Leaping to action, Chesney begins hammering at the door, aware that Gemma and the quads are inside. Seeing the commotion, Abi runs across the road to get the fire extinguisher from the garage.
With Gemma and the quads herded to safety, they're rushed off to hospital to get checked over for smoke inhalation and Chesney mourns the loss of their home.
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Kevin is having love drama of his own, and struggles to hide his jealousy when Abi is late for work after going on a date with Ray the night before.
Later on at the Rovers, Abi turns up for an after work drink but bitter Kevin can't help himself making a snide comment about her "sugar daddy". Offended, Abi storms out, leaving Kevin kicking himself.
After Faye shames Kevin and Steve into helping Tim find the money he needs to get rid of Charlie, Tim thinks he can put his accidental bigamist days behind him...
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Realising how much she's hurt Maria's feelings, Sarah extends an olive branch and says she's only looking out for her, because she knows only too well how Gary can be.
Later on Gary takes a phone call outside. Realising he's been gone for a while, Maria heads out to check on him and when she overhears him say, "you know I love you", assumes the worst.
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But Daniel insists he wants the best for her, and offers to help with her application to the creative writing course.