{"id":395500,"date":"2026-04-24T13:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/395500\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:48:16","slug":"coronation-streets-shona-platt-in-frame-for-next-weeks-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/395500\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Street’s Shona Platt in frame for next week’s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Coronation Street star Julia Goulding has warned fans not to rule out her character Shona Platt as a potential killer \u2013 with speculation building over next week’s shock murder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Next Friday’s episode (1 May)<\/a> reveals a suspicious death on the cobbles, as one of five characters \u2013 Carl Webster, Jodie Ramsey, Maggie Driscoll, Megan Walsh or Theo Silverton \u2013 is killed off.<\/p>\n

Shona has recently reunited<\/a> with her sister Jodie and seems oblivious to the newcomer’s darker side. However, things start to change next week as Jodie becomes ever bolder with her scheming\u2026<\/p>\n

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Related: Coronation Street \u2013 here’s what the scream meant in Carla and Lisa’s wedding episode<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking exclusively to Digital Spy about Shona’s current mindset, Julia laughed: “She’s blinded by love for her sister! She’s also got a lot on, with Harper being in the hospital. I think she’s just really happy to have Jodie back in her life.<\/p>\n

“I also think Jodie’s been pretty good at shielding Shona from the mischief that she’s causing.”<\/p>\n

In upcoming scenes, Jodie is shocked to discover that Shona recently lied about the past. Shona claimed to have never received an emotional letter that Jodie sent to her years ago, but she had actually ignored her sibling’s attempts to reconnect.<\/p>\n

Livid to realise that Shona can’t be trusted, Jodie plots to destroy her marriage by trying to trick a drunken David into cheating<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Related: Coronation Street star “lets slip” exit ahead of shock murder week<\/a><\/p>\n

“Shona ignored the letter because of her guilt, basically,” continued Julia. “She was just feeling so guilty about abandoning her. And then when Jodie brought the letter up again recently, I think it just brought all those feelings back and she just wanted to bury it. She’s created a new life for herself now.<\/p>\n

“Jodie is so crazy that something like this could tip her over the edge. But I’d watch out if I were Shona, because I think it could ramp up the mischief to something a bit more\u2026”<\/p>\n

So, could new-found tensions between the sisters lead to a deadly showdown? Asked whether Shona is capable of killing, Julia joked: “Yeah, of course she is \u2013 do you know what her son did<\/a>? He’s got to get it from somewhere! She’s definitely capable. But who knows?”<\/p>\n

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Related: Exclusive \u2013 Coronation Street star rules out one killer suspect ahead of special week<\/a><\/p>\n

Another option is that Shona could be left mourning if someone else targets Jodie. On Shona’s likely reaction, Julia added: “I think she’d be out for blood. I think she’d be out for revenge, for sure. We might see a bad side to Shona again! It’d be nice to see Shona turn back to her old ways. Her Dog & Gun ways!”<\/p>\n

Some fans have suggested that it’s just too soon for Jodie to be killed off, since she only made her first appearance in January and there are plenty of potential storylines still to explore. But perhaps the producers always intended her to be a short-lived character?<\/p>\n

Giving nothing away about the potential death, Julia added: “I’d hate it to happen \u2013 but it might! I just love Olivia [Frances Brown, who plays Jodie], she’s brilliant and so sweet. We get on really well. And I don’t have any siblings, so it’s nice to have a sister for the first time ever.”<\/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 Julia Goulding has warned fans not to rule out her character…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[149862,2115,204356,2117,156,2116,111,139,69,204355,147143,437],"class_list":["post-395500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-collection-exclusives","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-29f2e5f0-a718-4eb0-b380-f181dbef4b47","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-locale-gb","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-shorttitle-corries-shona-in-frame-for-next-weeks-murder","tag-subsection-coronation-street","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395500","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=395500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}