OMG SHOCKING!!! Coronation Street fans spot early clue for who killed Theo Silverton
Coronation Street Soap Scoop! Shock death aftermath
After months of teasing, Coronation Street has revealed the dead body in the murder mystery story, as last night’s episode revealed that Theo Silverton met his maker and was dumped in the alleyway.
Now the question is: whodunnit? Fans think that a brief moment in last night’s episode might have revealed the killer before the victim’s identity was even revealed.
In the episode, Christina Boyd went to pick up Todd Grimshaw after he escaped from evil Theo once again, making her partner George Shuttleworth promise to stay at home and wait for them to return.
When the two got back, George was indeed there, but something was different.
“Did you change your jumper?” Christina asked him as they shared a hug, and he said he had, as “it’s been a long day, hasn’t it?”
Earlier in that same scene, George said that Theo “wouldn’t get anywhere near [Todd], I guarantee ya,” which elicited a quick, yet noticeable, look of shock and concern from Christina.
On social media, there are plenty of comments saying things like “George killed Theo. That’s why he changed his jumper” or “So that’s why you changed your jumper, George!! Good lad!!”
Other fans think that Summer Spellman could be involved and that perhaps George only broke his promise to stay home after she called him asking for help, or maybe he saw Theo intimidating Summer and attacked him to defend her,
Some even theorised that Summer could have been the one to kill Theo, and George either witnessed it or helped her after the fact, and changed his jumper due to getting blood on his previous one.
However, other people have pointed out that George being guilty is probably “too obvious”. Given how many red herrings Corrie has been playing lately, could these fans be right?
Coronation Street fans spot early clue for who killed Theo Silverton
Coronation Street star James Cartwright has explained why show bosses decided to kill off his evil character Theo Silverton.
Theo finally got his comeuppance in Friday’s episode (1 May) as viewers saw Betsy Swain discover his dead body in a grisly storyline twist.
The schemer’s downfall was inevitable, as he’d subjected his husband Todd Grimshaw to months of violent and coercive behaviour behind closed doors, and soap villains can’t stay unpunished forever…
In an exclusive chat with he Inside Soap podcast, James argued that it was a better story choice for Theo to meet a brutal end rather than stand trial for his crimes.
“I join a long line of people who’ve met Corrie‘s own brand of justice,” James explained. “I think ultimately, it was always going to be thus. I remember chatting to Kate Brooks, the magnificent producer. Theo was all her doing, really. It was her vision and she’s wonderful.
“When we very first started, she said: ‘Look, it’s either going to be court or Corrie‘s own brand of justice’. Then, as it went further on, it was decided that there’s no need for another court case. So off he goes, mate!”
He continued: “With domestic violence, and as gritty as it was, the feeling was: ‘Is there an appetite to relive it all when we’ve seen it?’ I think court cases are only good as a device if there’s new evidence, a shocking witness, or somebody saw something.
“But actually it’d just be Todd saying what happened, Theo denying it and then reliving all of those awful events. It’s been a brilliant storyline, but also it’s been quite brutal and whether there’s an appetite to relive that when people [at home] are enjoying their corned beef hash, I don’t know!”
The discovery of Theo’s body now kicks off a huge new murder mystery, with several suspects in the frame.
After he made so many enemies on the cobbles, it’d be easier to pinpoint the characters who didn’t want Theo gone…
James confirmed: “I know exactly who’s done it. He’s basically upset everybody on the street. It could be Summer. I killed her dad, that’s motivation! You’ve got George, because Todd’s like a son to him. You’ve seen George punch me already!
“You’ve got Christina – Christina’s a lunatic. It could be Todd, because he’s just had enough. It could be Carl. There are many, many people it could be on that street, which I think is really exciting.”
James also offered a final tease – with flashbacks so commonplace on Corrie these days, fans may not have seen the last of Theo just yet…
Asked about the possibility, he laughed: “I could not possibly say! I think we’ll have to see what happened, right? How unsatisfactory if we don’t. I think there will be some flashbacks and I think you will find out precisely what happened.
“But all part of the fun is the journey of that. There is so much more to come. Keep watching – it gets juicier and juicier. Theo’s death will affect everybody in a different way.”