Huge Coronation Street clue ‘confirms’ which major character won’t die next week

Speculation has been rife with fans of Coronation Street over which of five potential characters will die next week as a body is uncovered – but the ITV soap may have just have given away who it won’t be.

Earlier this year, a special flashforward sequence aired during a standard episode of the ITV soap, previewing the devastation to come in late April, with one character meeting a grisly demise.

A corpse is found by Betsy Swain (Sydney Martin) on the eve of mum Lisa (Vicky Myers) and Carla Connor’s (Alison King) wedding and Corrie subsequently confirmed a list of suspects for who it could be.

Maggie Driscoll (Pauline McLynn), Megan Walsh (Beth Nixon), Theo Silverton (James Cartwright), Carl Webster (Jonathan Howard) and Jodie Ramsey (Olivia Frances-Brown), who’ve all made enemies aplenty due to their actions, are facing a shocking end.

Rovers landlady Maggie, as viewers know, has killed before and she’s hellbent on making predator Megan pay, so there’s plenty of reasons to believe either of those two could be the body.

Theo, meanwhile, has become a Street enemy over the abuse he inflicted on Todd Grimshaw (Gareth Pierce), while Carl has just about antagonised everyone in Weatherfield, making his demise feel highly plausible.

And then there’s Jodie, who is out to destroy sister Shona’s (Julia Goulding) entire life, to the point that she’s even trying to worm her way into her marriage to David Platt (Jack P Shepherd).

She hasn’t stopped with traumatising her family, however, as she’s also targeted various Street residents, which means she’s got enemies galore.

Factor in her shady past and the characters she encountered prior to coming to the cobbles, is it that hard to believe that someone could take revenge, thus making her the victim?

Speculation will peaks over the next week or so but Coronation Street might have just given away a pretty big clue, potentially ruling one of the key murder victims out.

‘From the city’s most famous street’, said Catherine, as Pauline added: ‘we just wanted to say…’ before Aaron joined in as the trio exclaimed: ‘Happy hundredth birthday Salford’.

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If this was shot recently then star Pauline is still filming, which could mean that Maggie makes it out next week alive.

However, it’s also possible that she’s there for flashback purposes, or perhaps the ITV soap is deliberately trying to throw us off the scent, with a misdirection to make it appear that Maggie is safe by sharing this clip so close to the big week.

Filming pictures from an on-location shoot, potentially for a murder trial, showed the actors behind the Driscoll clan at the centre of the drama, which would imply that either Megan or Maggie are involved in the coming death scenes, so it could all line up.

But will this prove to be the case?

We’ll just have to tune in to find out!

Coronation Street airs weeknights at 8:30pm on ITV1 or stream from 7am on ITVX and YouTube.

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