CORONATION Avenue bosses are dealing with a backlash towards their controversial useless child storyline – with slatings coming from each followers of the cleaning soap and present veterans alike.
Former Corrie star Vicky Entwhistle, who performed Janice Battersby within the ITV cleaning soap, took to social media to blast the cleaning soap for altering a historic storyline.
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The Solar solely revealed how bosses have give you the grim story that Toyah Battersby had a secret child after she was raped in 2001 – with them being stillborn.
And Toyah, performed by Georgia Taylor, 44, will now discover out the land is about to be dug up and fears her secret will probably be found.
A supply mentioned: “Other than the truth that viewers need leisure, that is nonetheless an extremely darkish and bold storyline, and a few longtime followers might determine to choose aside the holes.
“All of it performed out on display, the brutal assault, the aftermath, so for it to now transpire that she turned pregnant from the rape, suffered a stillbirth on their lonesome earlier than burying her useless child at The Purple Rec has raised fairly a couple of eyebrows on set.
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“It’s not going to go down properly.”
And it hasn’t with followers and solid alike hitting out on the storyline.
Vicky, who performed Toyah’s mum Janice within the cleaning soap, slammed it on Twitter writing: “Properly we tried to make our moments as actual as they might attainable be, didn’t we Bruce?!’ she started.
“I suppose we failed. Who knew [that] digging up useless infants would grow to be the spotlight of ITV’s tea time slot!!!”
Followers joined her with one writing: “This Toyah story that’s been introduced for #Corrie is completely repulsive. It’s like they’re actively making an attempt to make this cleaning soap as repellent as attainable.”
A second mentioned: “It could very properly be Corrie’s worst idea and presumably one of many worst ideas in soaps.
“How obsessive about trauma do it’s a must to be to retcon a girl to have a child with a rapist AND reveal the child died?”
One other added: “Hoping the brand new producer axes the storyline when she arrives subsequent month.”
The unique storyline was one in every of Coronation Avenue’s most controversial – being branded tasteless after they handled it as a whodunnit in an effort to compete with EastEnders’ Who Shot Phil storyline.
It emerged that Toyah’s acquaintance Phil Simmonds was the rapist however bungling bosses ruined their very own reveal by that includes him within the credit regardless of him not showing in an episode in any other case.
Defending Corrie’s latest darkish storylines, ITV drama boss John Whiston informed the Guardian: “Coronation Avenue is, and at all times has been, a mix of characters you like, earthy humour and tales that matter resembling the present Liam bullying storyline or the Lauren grooming storyline.
“The present is proud to discover essential up to date points resembling these and our viewers analysis reveals that viewers actually recognize these tales and imagine we cope with them in an interesting however accountable manner.
“Which is why Coronation Avenue continues to be the most-watched cleaning soap on British TV.”
