HOTTES NEWS TODAY!!! The final Coronation Street killer battle for Maggie and Megan as a massive secret is revealed
Coronation Street has quite the roster of undesirables at the moment.
Chaotic and creepy Jodie Ramsey (Olivia Frances-Brown), deeply devious Carl Webster (Jonathan Howard), murdering meddler Maggie Driscoll (Pauline McLynn), vicious and violent Theo Silverton (James Cartwright) and grotesque groomer, Megan Walsh (Beth Nixon) have been destroying lives left and right in Weatherfield, though that’s all about to change.
One of them will finally pay the ultimate price for their various crimes, when they’re murdered on Friday night, with the four preceding episodes focused on each of their stories.
Distinct from Carl, Jodie and Theo, though, are Megan and Maggie, who’s stories are intrinsically linked, with the target of Megan’s grooming and sexual abuse being Will Driscoll (Lucas Hodgson-Wale), Maggie’s grandson.
Upon the family learning what’d been happening under their noses, the two wicked women faced off, and their war of words quickly turned physical. Then-pregnant Megan swung for Maggie, and received a shove for her efforts, resulting in her falling on her stomach. Though she claimed that Maggie had directly caused a miscarriage, Megan had actually had an abortion.
This week sees a hammer blow delivered to the Driscoll family, when Kit Green (Jacob Roberts) reveals that the CPS don’t have enough evidence to formally charge Megan with her sexual abuse of Will and, as Megan plots her escape, the family crumble.
Terrified that her son and Will’s dad, Ben Driscoll (Aaron McCusker), will do something stupid, Maggie pushes Eva Price (Catherine Tyldesley) to deal with Megan and she does, backed up by Leanne and Toyah Battersby (Jane Danson and Georgia Taylor).
Their confrontation leads to a tracking device being planted in Megan’s bag, but the emergence of Melanie (Cindy Humphrey), Will’s mum, further fans the flames of trouble for the family and when Megan later terrorises Eva with an admission, her blood turns to lava.
Thursday sees Eva, Leanne and Toyah reunite again and force Megan into the salon flat, determined to extract a full confession from her by hook or crook.
As is often the case with the Battersby sisters, though, things quickly descend into violence, with Megan left with a broken and bloody nose and is promptly booted out into the ginnel…
Coronation Street’s Pauline McLynn has delved further into the darker side of her character Maggie Driscoll, and the lengths she’s prepared to go to in order to protect her family.
It was revealed towards the end of last year that Maggie, who lives at the Rovers Return pub, is hiding the secret that she pushed her husband down the stairs and killed him.
She has a temper and always wants to ensure her loved ones are safe – and that’s a recipe for disaster when you currently reside on a street that sees residents in danger on the daily.
The Driscoll clan had their entire world turned upside down recently when they discovered youngster Will Driscoll (Lucas Hodgson-Wale) was being groomed by Megan Walsh (Beth Nixon).
Frustratingly for the clan though, they cannot find any evidence that proves something inappropriate happened between the pair. With Will in denial and Megan refusing to take a DNA test to confirm she’s carrying the teenager’s baby, the family aren’t sure how the evil woman will face justice.
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In upcoming episodes, Maggie decides that direction action is needed where Megan is concerned, and decides to pay her a visit to warn her off.
Describing her character as a ‘woman of action’, star Pauline McLynn has said that Maggie completely believes she can sort the situation out.
‘I mean, there are matters with the police over the grooming of the grandson, but I think she feels that the law moves at a very slow pace and for rules that she does not have to play by’, she explained.
‘They also have to be really careful of how they approach any situation whereas Maggie’s more of a blunt instrument. She just thinks, “look, I’m going to solve this, sort it out, I’ll find her. I’ll warn her off”.
‘I have to say, we’ll see a splendidly devious side of Maggie because no one knows exactly where Megan has gone to hide and Maggie finds out in a very underhanded way. I was quite pleased when I saw that! But she does what nobody else would do, she goes to all kinds of lengths to find out wherever Megan is and then she goes to confront her because nothing else is working.
Pauline added: ‘There’s some more splendid rows to be had, splendid fighting and all very enjoyable to do. Even including, I’m not going to lie, by accident or otherwise as is the way of Maggie’s life, there are physical fights. Oh, yes, she’s not above getting her hands dirty at all.’
Pondering over what Maggie thinks of Megan, Pauline said: ‘I think to be honest with you, she’s met her match very much in Megan, who it doesn’t seem will stop at nothing to get what she wants and is a brilliant liar like Maggie is, or a concealer of the truth, let’s say.
‘They’re quite well matched like that. So it’s really wonderful to see two women from opposite sides of an argument having a proper go at one another. And of course, solidifying Maggie’s absolute total loyalty to family and will do pretty much anything to keep it intact or safe.’
The situation between Maggie and Megan escalates so much, Megan ends up reporting the Driscoll matriarch for assault.
Despite the police now getting involved, that doesn’t prevent Maggie from facing another round with Megan later in the week.
‘She dismisses it as kind of nonsense, a waste of everyone’s time to be complaining about this. A little bit of rough and tumble, things escalated a little, let’s get on with it. You know? That’s if denying it in the first place hasn’t worked, she then goes, “look, it could have happened to anyone! It’s just the way it was going, she escalated it, not me!” She’s not a woman who backs down easily, I will say that’, the star said.
‘I think people would be disappointed if we didn’t see her having another go, having not had any satisfaction from the first go of running the woman out of town. She’ll just go again and keep going until it happens, that’s if Megan doesn’t disappear first or whatever.