{"id":420613,"date":"2026-04-27T21:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/420613\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:41:11","slug":"coronation-street-star-addresses-carl-websters-possible-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/420613\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Street star addresses Carl Webster’s possible death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coronation Street spoilers<\/a> follow.<\/p>\n

Coronation Street star Jonathan Howard has admitted that he wouldn’t be disappointed if his character Carl Webster is killed off this week.<\/p>\n

Carl is one of five characters<\/a> whose fates are hanging in the balance as the ITV soap airs its big murder mystery episodes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Weatherfield love rat is on the shortlist of potential deaths, alongside Jodie Ramsey, Maggie Driscoll, Megan Walsh and Theo Silverton. Viewers won’t discover who’s being written out until this Friday (1 May)<\/a>, when Betsy Swain finds a body.<\/p>\n

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Related: Coronation Street’s Kate Connor could still return as Faye Brookes responds to fans<\/a>
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In the meantime, Tuesday’s episode (28 April)<\/a> follows the events of Carla and Lisa Connor-Swain’s wedding day from Carl’s perspective. After upsetting so many people on the cobbles, are his days numbered?<\/p>\n

Speaking in a new interview, Jonathan confessed: “I was hoping I was going to be one of the potential victims! I think Carl has annoyed a lot of people on the Street and hasn’t really covered himself in glory, so I was hoping and expecting that he would be one of these five bad guys who could be killed off.<\/p>\n

“I’m very lucky with the storylines I’ve had and the actors that I’ve worked with. So if this was my time, then I would go out very proud and very grateful for the experience.”<\/p>\n

He continued: “I’m super grateful to [producers] Kate Brooks, Iain MacLeod, Verity MacLeod and the writers. I’m very, very happy. I’ve been here a year. I was part of Corriedale<\/a>, which was a great experience.<\/p>\n

“As a kid growing up, Corrie was the ceiling, so to come on it and to be able to play such a fun part and get great storylines, I\u2019m very grateful for that.”<\/p>\n

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Related: Coronation Street names possible Theo killers as huge week begins<\/a><\/p>\n

Tuesday’s episode sees Carl try to tie up some loose ends before his planned departure from Weatherfield.<\/p>\n

True to form, he ends up angering Abi Webster, Kevin Webster, Theo Silverton and Tyrone Dobbs \u2013 potentially giving them all motives for murder.<\/p>\n

Asked whether he’s tried to find any room for redemption in Carl’s character, Jonathan replied: “Definitely. I’ve got to have empathy and compassion and find the humanity in him.<\/p>\n

“If I’d grown up my whole life not really knowing who my family was and feeling like I was left on the side, how would that impact me? How would I react? I’ve got to play what’s on the page, but I’ve got to try and find the humanity in that and the reason behind it.<\/p>\n

“I try and find moments of kindness in him and moments of wanting to be loved.”<\/p>\n

Coronation Street airs on weeknights at 8.30pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more Coronation Street spoilers on our dedicated homepage<\/a><\/p>\n

For exclusive soap star interviews, gossip, spoilers and theories every week, don’t miss the Soap Scoop podcast<\/a> from Inside Soap magazine. The latest episode<\/a> delves into next week\u2019s soap spoilers for EastEnders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale – as Weatherfield\u2019s murder mystery unfolds, and Grant Mitchell returns to Walford!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coronation Street spoilers follow. Coronation Street star Jonathan Howard has admitted that he wouldn’t be disappointed if his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[131124,1105,184173,1107,93,61,60,1135,184172,131171,282],"class_list":["post-420613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-15c3a2b1-d4b2-411b-b865-f7af4337dbfe","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-corrie-star-addresses-carl-websters-possible-death","tag-subsection-coronation-street","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420613","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=420613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}