BIG NEWS!!! Huge Coronation Street clue ‘confirms’ which major character won’t die next week

Speculation has been rife with fans of Coronation Street over which of five potential characters will die next week as a body is uncovered – but the ITV soap may have just have given away who it won’t be.

Earlier this year, a special flashforward sequence aired during a standard episode of the ITV soap, previewing the devastation to come in late April, with one character meeting a grisly demise.

A corpse is found by Betsy Swain (Sydney Martin) on the eve of mum Lisa (Vicky Myers) and Carla Connor’s (Alison King) wedding and Corrie subsequently confirmed a list of suspects for who it could be.

Maggie Driscoll (Pauline McLynn), Megan Walsh (Beth Nixon), Theo Silverton (James Cartwright), Carl Webster (Jonathan Howard) and Jodie Ramsey (Olivia Frances-Brown), who’ve all made enemies aplenty due to their actions, are facing a shocking end.

Rovers landlady Maggie, as viewers know, has killed before and she’s hellbent on making predator Megan pay, so there’s plenty of reasons to believe either of those two could be the body.

Theo, meanwhile, has become a Street enemy over the abuse he inflicted on Todd Grimshaw (Gareth Pierce), while Carl has just about antagonised everyone in Weatherfield, making his demise feel highly plausible.

And then there’s Jodie, who is out to destroy sister Shona’s (Julia Goulding) entire life, to the point that she’s even trying to worm her way into her marriage to David Platt (Jack P Shepherd).

She hasn’t stopped with traumatising her family, however, as she’s also targeted various Street residents, which means she’s got enemies galore.

Factor in her shady past and the characters she encountered prior to coming to the cobbles, is it that hard to believe that someone could take revenge, thus making her the victim?

Speculation will peaks over the next week or so but Coronation Street might have just given away a pretty big clue, potentially ruling one of the key murder victims out.

In a clip shared to the ITV’s social media account, Maggie star Pauline McLynn is seen with Aaron McCusker (Ben Driscoll) and Catherine Tyldesley (Eva Price) celebrating the 100th birthday of Salford.

‘From the city’s most famous street’, said Catherine, as Pauline added: ‘we just wanted to say…’ before Aaron joined in as the trio exclaimed: ‘Happy hundredth birthday Salford’.

If this was shot recently then star Pauline is still filming, which could mean that Maggie makes it out next week alive. However, it’s also possible that she’s there for flashback purposes, or perhaps the ITV soap is deliberately trying to throw us off the scent, with a misdirection to make it appear that Maggie is safe by sharing this clip so close to the big week.

Filming pictures from an on-location shoot, potentially for a murder trial, showed the actors behind the Driscoll clan at the centre of the drama, which would imply that either Megan or Maggie are involved in the coming death scenes, so it could all line up. But will this prove to be the case?

We’ll just have to tune in to find out!

Coronation Street spoilers follow for Tuesday’s (April 21) episode, which is now available to stream on ITVX.

Megan Walsh (Beth Nixon) is truly rotten, isn’t she?

A depraved paedophile and predator who preys on young boys, grooming them into thinking that a relationship between an underage child and an adult is ‘true love’, all the while targeting anybody who she perceives as a threat to her carrying out her sickening activities unfettered.

She launched a campaign of outright psychological torture against Sam Blakeman (Jude Riordan) when he discovered her abuse of Will Driscoll (Lucas Hodgson-Wale), displaying her uncanny ability of zeroing in on a persons weakness and exploiting it for all it’s worth.

For once, though, Megan was outmatched, and despite turning to drugs and wracked with anxiety amid her threats to utterly annihilate his life, Sam summoned the courage to tell his step mum, Leanne Battersby (Jane Danson) what was happening.

With her secret blown, Megan was forced to change tack, outright unwilling to lose the battle, and with her having Will firmly under her thrall and unwilling to admit to anything, the Driscoll’s have been torn apart as the lack of evidence has meant that the CPS are refusing to charge Megan.

Discussing Megan’s approach to life, Beth said: ‘She is the most important person in her life, and she’ll step over anyone to come out on top.

‘Her cleverness is her downfall, but so is her self-righteousness. She thinks she’s God’s gift and that she can get away with anything.’

Does she feel any guilt for her heinous actions?

‘She feels guilt, but her own life and her own desires are more important than anything else,’ Beth said.

‘She’s a narcissist. She feels sadness and empathy, but she snaps herself out of it because guilt would hold her back from getting what she wants. Her needs always come first.’

With nothing pending against her from a legal standpoint, Megan plotted her escape to Paris, while Will’s brother, Ollie (Raphael Akuwudike) railed at dad, Ben (Aaron McCusker) over his failure to protect Will from a sexual predator.