{"id":403320,"date":"2026-04-17T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/403320\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:43:09","slug":"coronation-street-star-makes-surprise-return-after-six-month-absence-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/403320\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Street star makes surprise return after six-month absence | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Coronation Street<\/a> star has returned to the cobbles after a six-month absence from the ITV show.<\/p>\n

Donnaleigh Bailey has played police officer Jess Heywood since 2017.<\/p>\n

She made her return to the long-running soap opera on Wednesday (15 April) as PC Jess investigates Todd Grimshaw and Theo\u2019s domestic violence case.<\/p>\n

The episode follows Todd (Gareth Pierce) as he finally harnesses the strength to report partner Theo (James Cartwright) to the police for his abuse.<\/p>\n

The national domestic abuse helpline offers support for women on 0808 2000 247, or you can visit the Refuge<\/a> website. There is a dedicated men’s advice line<\/a> on 0808 8010 327. Those in the US can call the domestic violence hotline on 1-800-799-SAFE (7233). Other international helplines can be found via www.befrienders.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Coronation Street star has returned to the cobbles after a six-month absence from the ITV show. Donnaleigh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[31724,5040,93,177710,61767,6285,61,177711,177709,60,582,16855,3165,177713,177712,33296,2096,266,106842,3405,850,159647,282,1577,22903],"class_list":{"0":"post-403320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-color-image","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-friendly-match","12":"tag-headshot","13":"tag-horizontal","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-international-match","16":"tag-international-team-soccer","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-japan","19":"tag-london-england","20":"tag-marc-guehi","21":"tag-match-sport","22":"tag-national-team","23":"tag-one-person","24":"tag-people","25":"tag-photography","26":"tag-rear-view","27":"tag-soccer","28":"tag-sport","29":"tag-stadium","30":"tag-tv","31":"tag-uk","32":"tag-wembley-stadium"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}