Coronation Street spoilers follow from Thursday’s episode (12 March), which is available to watch now on ITVX and YouTube but hasn’t aired on ITV1 yet.
Coronation Street has officially confirmed a shocking storyline rumour – Ben Driscoll could be Steve McDonald’s secret half-brother.
The bombshell twist is revealed in the closing moments of Thursday’s episode, when Maggie is confronted by one of Jim McDonald’s old friends.
After several days of strange behaviour, Maggie is spooked as the day of Jim’s funeral brings buried secrets back to the surface.
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When the mourners head back to The Rovers to raise a toast to Jim, anxious Maggie tries her best to keep a low profile. With Jim’s army mates Declan and Davey among the guests, Maggie is clearly worried about potentially being recognised.
Sure enough, Declan bides his time before cornering Maggie in the pub’s back yard – revealing that he knows she’s a woman that Jim had an affair with years ago.
“You’re familiar – older, but familiar,” Declan notes. “You were a pal of his – Jim McDonald.
“Margaret, isn’t it? ‘My wee Maggie’, he’d say. The big secret. He was a married man – you knew that, with two young boys. You were awful lucky that nobody caught on.”
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Maggie bluffs that Declan is mistaken, but he’s quick to dismiss her denials. Although he promises Maggie that he won’t rock the boat by exposing her secret, he makes it very clear that he isn’t fooled.
News of the twist first leaked out last month, when reports revealed that Jim fathered Ben during his affair with Maggie. Since then, we’ve seen several scenes where Maggie appeared to be acting strangely around the McDonalds.
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Maggie previously became unsettled over Ben’s growing friendship with Steve and tried her best to keep them apart.
She has also bitterly opposed the idea of her grandson Ollie dating Steve’s daughter Amy Barlow, knowing that they could be secret cousins.
For now, nobody else knows Maggie’s messy backstory – but as she’s one of the characters who could be murdered next month, could skeletons start falling out of her closet sooner rather than later?
Coronation Street airs on weeknights at 8.30pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX.
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