Coronation Street spoilers follow.
Coronation Street’s Jodie Ramsey gets on the wrong side of Brian Packham and Rita Tanner next week, after the newsagents sack young Lily Platt from her paper round. Is she making a mistake by falling out with two popular members of the community?
The drama kicks off when David Platt convinces Brian to give Lily a job, but the schoolgirl bins the newspapers rather than delivering them. Jodie encourages Lily to apologise to Brian, but the teenager brazenly asks for her job back instead.
Brian refuses to play ball – so Jodie decides to get her own back.
“Jodie knows exactly what she’s doing,” explains our Corrie insider. “At first, Jodie takes her niece to the Kabin to apologise, but Lily is unrepentant. Brian is far from impressed, and his treatment of Lily leaves Jodie raging.
ITV
Related: Coronation Street’s Carl to push for Ronnie’s arrest in shock new scenes
“Later, she seizes the chance to stir the pot by turning Hope Dobbs against Brian and Rita in a bid to get the youngster to do her dirty work…”
The drama starts straight after David secures his daughter the paper delivery job. Lily is delighted, but David ruins the mood when he admits that he’s happy she’ll be out of his way in the mornings.
Meanwhile, Jodie has her own reason to be irritated, after Bernie Winter-Alahan snaps at her for serving Brian the wrong toastie.
“It’s risky to criticise Jodie,” our spy continues. “Still, Bernie does just that when she spots the problem with Brian’s order.
“Little does Bernie realise that Jodie knows all about her secret frustrations with Mal, who has bought a bag of crystals to impress Bernie. Knowing what she knows, what will Jodie do?”
ITV
Related: Coronation Street viewers spot blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Jodie clue – amid frenzy of fan theories
The next day, Lily dumps the newspapers meant for her paper round, but Hope finds them and returns the batch to Rita. While in Rita’s company, Hope asks for help with her Duke of Edinburgh badge, but it all goes terribly wrong when she comments on the shopkeeper’s age…
Before long, David and Shona hear from Brian that he needs a chat about Lily’s behaviour. Jodie takes Lily to the Kabin to make amends, but the teenager shows no remorse.
Afterwards, Jodie tells Hope that Brian and Rita were nasty to Lily. Hope sticks up for the pair, but Jodie insists that they’re probably slagging her off when she’s not around, too.
So, when Hope overhears Brian and Rita talking about her past, will she take revenge as Jodie expects? And if so, how far will she go?
Coronation Street airs on weeknights at 8.30pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX.
Read more Coronation Street spoilers on our dedicated homepage
For exclusive soap star interviews, gossip, spoilers and theories every week, don’t miss the Soap Scoop podcast from Inside Soap magazine. The latest episode delves into next week’s soap spoilers for EastEnders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale – featuring steamy affairs, shocking deaths, flash-forwards and major moral dilemmas.