Coronation Street’s Carla Connor will suffer a mental breakdown after watching her business fall apart
SHE’S just watched her business crumble before her eyes, so it’s no surprise Coronation Street’s Carla Connor feels a bit wobbly.
After the Underworld factory roof collapse — which left Rana Habeeb dead and half of Weatherfield unemployed — I’m told Carla will have a mental breakdown.
Things get so traumatic on the ITV soap that the knicker boss, played by Alison King, is hospitalised and put on anti-psychotic drugs.
And if that’s not bad enough, she chooses recovering alcoholic Peter Barlow to look after her when she’s discharged.
My cobbles source said: “It all gets a bit much for Carla in the aftermath of the roof collapse and the pressure on her to keep people in jobs and the factory open. She eventually has a huge mental breakdown.”
Viewers saw Rana die on her wedding day to Kate Connor, Carla’s half-sister, last week. And Carla is in the frame for causing her death after discovering the roof was faulty and getting Gary Windass in to do the work on the cheap.
Carla goes missing in the wake of the disaster, with viewers eventually discovering she’s been sectioned due to her behaviour. Peter also struggles with the tragedy and hits the bottle before going into rehab himself. But he decides to get clean so he can care for Carla.
The source added: “Before she’s discharged she is put on anti-psychotic drugs and told she needs someone to look after her around the clock. Much to her family’s confusion, she chooses Peter, with him quitting rehab to do so.”
That will surely end well.
Sam’s double dealing
WHEN Anthony Blunt, a friend of The Queen, was exposed as a Cold War Soviet spy, the scandal rocked the British establishment. Now their friendship will be explored in the next series of Netflix’s The Crown.
I can reveal Samuel West – who played the traitor in 2003 BBC thriller, Cambridge Spies – will resume the role.
In 1991, the West’s mum, Fawlty Towers star Prunella Scales, played The Queen in A Question of Attribution, another Beeb drama focussing on Blunt.
Blunt was Her Majesty’s art curator and one of the Cambridge Five, a group of spies who fed classified information to the USSR.
He was uncovered in 1964 and stripped of his knighthood. It sounds like the third series of The Crown could be the most thrilling yet.
Oh golly Josh, he’s Chaz spit
THE Durrells returns next week for a fourth series – but Josh O’Connor, who plays Lawrence, is already gearing up for his next major role, as Prince Charles in The Crown.
Daisy Waterhouse, who plays Laurence’s sister Margo in the ITV drama which returns on Sunday April 7 at 8pm, reckons Josh will make the perfect Prince of Wales in the Netflix series – because he looks uncannily like him.
She should know, too, as she recently met Charles with her dad, bookshop entrepreneur Sir Tim Waterstone.
She said: “My dad got knighted a few months ago and we went to Buckingham Palace. Prince Charles was knighting him, and I kept thinking to myself: ‘That is Josh, as an older man. He looks identical.’ Even his mannerisms are quite similar – and the way he talks to people, he’s very charming is Prince Charles. It was like Josh was knighting my dad. It was a very bizarre situation.”
Josh was thrilled when she told him this – and he jokingly pretended to be Charles as he “knighted” Daisy.
bizbit
ELLIE Goulding has confirmed she will sing the soundtrack for David Attenborough’s up- coming Netflix series Our Planet.
Her new song, In This Together, will be the first CD release using renewable seaweed packaging.
New boy Paddy’s dressed to Will
PADDY McGuinness is quickly becoming the busiest man on the box.
The Take Me Out host makes his debut tonight as a team captain on Keith Lemon’s Celebrity Juice, alongside Holly Willoughby.
It comes ahead of Paddy’s debut as a host on Top Gear and days after the launch of his game show Catchpoint.
On his first Celebrity Juice, Paddy takes part in an Eat The Loudest challenge with guests including Stacey Solomon and Samia Longchambon and wears a floral gown and wig, left, for a soap opera game with Will Mellor.
Tiktok… time for Amelia
ONLINE star Amelia Gething is moving mainstream with a CBBC sketch show called The Amelia Gething Complex.
The comic series follows Amelia and her flatmates in a weird apartment that leads to parallel universes.
The gang tackle some of life’s most challenging situations – such as falling in love with a lift and having to choose the right biscuit so as not to affect the stability of the universe.
Amelia said: “I have been writing, acting and producing short-form comedy content on social media for a couple of years now so it’s really great to partner with the BBC.”
She made her name on social media video app TikTok where she has more than seven million followers.
Sounds like it was only a matter of time before she became a TV star.
soapbox
THINGS turn violent between Tiff and Sonia in Eastenders — when the teen stoops to new lows to get herself out of trouble with the dealers.
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Sonia seeks Jack’s advice on how to deal with her niece only to find Tiff trying to steal money and Dot’s jewellery when she returns home.
In Hollyoaks, Misbah’s got a medical mystery on her hands when Maxine shows up after her funny turn.
The doctor fears she may have brain disease, leaving Damon horrified. My guess is Maxine may be faking her illness.
must watch
WHAT? Babes In The Wood, ITV, 9pm.
WHY? Trevor McDonald presents the story of how Brighton police brought a child killer to justice 32 years after the 1986 murders of two nine-year-old girls.
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