{"id":384105,"date":"2026-04-17T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/384105\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:18:09","slug":"coronation-street-star-makes-surprise-return-after-six-month-absence-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/384105\/","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":384106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[16457,1634,156,199361,71382,581,199362,199360,1759,199359,199364,199363,59650,111,139,69,39653,384,5296,120296,5271,2022,16674,437,1613,33952],"class_list":{"0":"post-384105","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-international-match","15":"tag-international-team-soccer","16":"tag-japan","17":"tag-london-england","18":"tag-marc-guehi","19":"tag-match-sport","20":"tag-national-team","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-one-person","25":"tag-people","26":"tag-photography","27":"tag-rear-view","28":"tag-soccer","29":"tag-sport","30":"tag-stadium","31":"tag-tv","32":"tag-uk","33":"tag-wembley-stadium"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}