Coronation Street newcomer Noah Hedley has issued a chilling threat as the sinister conversion therapy storyline continues.

Billy Mayhew’s former friend has popped up on the Cobbles trying to change gay people’s sexuality under the guise of religion.

He wants to get his claws into Theo Silverton, which left Todd Grimshaw incensed at the start of tonight’s episode after finding out about the leaflet he was handed at the Bistro previously.

Todd found the leaflet in the bin, and while Archie Shuttleworth tried to tell him that Theo throwing it away was a good thing, Todd was convinced Theo could be pulled into Noah’s dark plan.

He was right, as Theo headed to the community centre to meet Noah. Since he wasn’t picking up the phone, Todd roped Billy in to going with him.

Unfortunately, Theo wasn’t there. Noah was though, and the duo caught him in the middle of practising his conversion therapy on some local men.

“You get off on this, don’t you? You’re the perverted one,” Todd said, but Noah wrote his words off as “projection” and told them that Theo was somewhere “safe”.

As he started to read scripture, Todd’s anger got the better of him and he put Noah in his headlock, barking at him to shut up as one of the men filmed it on his phone. After some back-and-forth Bible quoting, Billy and Todd left.

Back at Eileen’s, George returned home to find Theo in tears. He admitted that Noah knows how to push all his buttons due to his past and he “despised” feeling so conflicted and vulnerable.

Todd interrupted the conversation by walking in and revealing the altercation at the community centre. After some apologising, the couple made up and agreed that nothing was going to break them apart.

However, Theo later bumped into Noah on his way back from the shop — and the villain made it clear he’s not through.

“Your new friend has got a lot to answer for, and I’m gonna make sure that he does,” Noah told him. “He’s undone a lot of my hard work, not to mention put your mortal soul in peril… I’ve saved you once, and I’ll do it again.”

Will Todd find a way to get rid of Noah before he does real damage to Theo?