Coronation Street spoilers follow.
It isn’t really Christmas without a big soap showdown, and this year’s Coronation Street will be no exception. With the Rovers Return under the management of the Driscoll family, matriarch Maggie will be using her newfound power to cause a lot of drama on the big day.
But as multiple Weatherfield residents attend Christmas dinner at the pub, who will fall victim to her “mean” scheme?
Viewers already know that Maggie and her daughter-in-law Eva don’t exactly see eye-to-eye, with the pair repeatedly clashing over both family matters and business ideas. This December, Maggie takes things up a notch, making it her mission to remove Eva from the family.
The landlady begins to spiral when her young daughter Susie shares her wish of having another sibling – and her panic doesn’t go unnoticed by Maggie. The meddlesome mother-in-law discovers a hidden letter and spots exes Eva and Adam having a heart-to-heart, causing her suspicions to grow.
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She decides to invite Adam and his current girlfriend Alya to The Rovers for Christmas dinner, hoping to stir up some trouble. But Maggie gets more than she bargains for when she extends the invite to new couple Daniel and Megan, not realising that Megan has been grooming her grandson Will.
As expected, the dinner is filled with shocking revelations, furious confrontations and even a physical altercation, which leaves one Weatherfield resident unconscious in the ginnel. Will Maggie regret her actions or will her scheme have the desired effect?
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Speaking about being at the centre of the drama this festive period, Pauline McLynn (who plays Maggie) said: “It’ll be just the strangest, most wonderful, and really surreal thing, because it’s one of the traditions of Christmas television.”
“I happen to know that the family will behave as badly as any other family at Christmas. We have to forgive a lot, I think, with families when it comes to Christmas, because somebody always dirties their bib, don’t they?”
The actor addressed her character’s antics, which she described as “particularly mean”, but shared that it won’t just be Eva on the receiving end of her vitriol.
“Maggie behaves particularly badly, I will have to say. She’s particularly mean to a range of people – it’s not just one. It’s a kind of equal opportunity insulting of everyone,” she explained. “And she’s invited half the street around, so there’s plenty of people there to choose from to insult or to just let be witness to the insulting of other people.”
Coronation Street airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX.
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