SHOCKING NEWS!!! Coronation Street star “lets slip” exit ahead of shock murder week

Coronation Street star Beth Nixon may or may not have dropped a spoiler regarding the upcoming “Murder Week”. The shock storyline will see one of five characters killed off on the day of Carla Connor and Lisa Swain’s wedding.

The identity of one of the five – Megan Walsh, Jodie Ramsey, Carl Webster, Theo Silverton and Maggie Driscoll – will be unveiled after standalone episodes from each of their perspectives next week.

Beth has now dropped a big hint that it could be her character Megan during an appearance on This Morning, where she referred to her experience being great “from start to finish”.

“I’ve loved it, there’s so much to play with and it’s such an honour to be trusted with a storyline like that as well, because it’s so delicate,” she said. “But there’s so much in it, I get to work with a lot of the greats there as well. It’s been amazing from start to finish.”

Did she let slip a big spoiler, or could this be a bit of a red herring?

After all, she isn’t the first of the five central stars to potentially reveal their fates, with Carl actor Jonathan Howard appearing on This Morning in February from the Corrie set with black eye make-up on.

When presenter Sharon Marshall suggested it was a “spoiler clue”, Jonathan responded: “Yes, the make-up team did a great job this morning – completely covering me in blood because Carl’s going to get into some trouble. [He’s in] a few fights, yeah. Things are going to get pretty bad for Carl.”

After it was noted that he used the past tense during the interview, the actor teased: “We’re going to see what happens in the future…”

Soap producer Kate Brooks previously teased “so many twists and so many turns” for the storyline, adding: “It’s been a real challenge in some ways, because it is so complex and intricate, but it’s so exciting.”

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.

Driscoll matriarch, Maggie (Pauline McLynn), eager to ensure that Ben wasn’t pushed into making a potentially disastrous decision, enlisted Eva Price (Catherine Tyldesley) to confront Megan and force a confession from her. Ben found her pounding at Megan’s door, before they both broke down at the carnage the evil teacher had inflicted on their family.

With Eva convinced that Megan has done a Houdini and vanished, she’s more desperate than ever to find evidence that could nail her for good. Against Toyah Battersby’s (Georgia Taylor) advice, Eva agreed with sister Leanne, she needed to search Will’s room…

…and she did, unfortunately coming up empty handed. She was almost busted, though, as Toyah’s one job of stalling Will was an utter bust. Luckily, he seemingly bought their jumbled story about a vegan, chick-pea, falafel curry, tossing his coat aside and stalking up to his room.

Though Eva moved to reprimand him for his sloppy placement of the coat, Leanne hushed her and embraced her inner young-Battersby, regaling tales of her own youth, in which she’d hide cigarettes, bottles of WKD and Toyah’s chewing gum in the lining of her jacket to evade detection.

Her theory rang true when she found a phone hidden in the coat lining, a phone that Eva confirmed she’d never seen before. Tapping away, she discovered no messages, but found one, lone contact: Megan. With Leanne’s encouragement, she text the number and proposed a meeting, with Megan replying ‘see you tomorrow’.

Has Eva finally got everything she needs to expose Megan to the police and ensure she’s sent down? Potentially…but how will she manage the situation?