Coronation Street’s Fiz ‘gutted’ by Tyrone falling for Alina Pop, reveals Jennie McAlpine

CORONATION Street star Jennie McAlpine has revealed her character Fiz will be ‘gutted’ by Tyrone falling for Alina Pop. 

Tyrone has been developing romantic feelings for Alina Pop in recent weeks – as an oblivious Fiz has been planning a surprise wedding.

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But next week, Tyrone comes clean to Fiz when she proposes and tells him she’s booked a wedding in Greece. 

After Chesney gives him a stern word, Tyrone promises Fiz that she and the kids are his priority. 

But Fiz clearly isn’t fully reassured as she corners Alina on the cobbles and warns her to keep away from her family. 

Speaking to Digital Spy about her reaction to the storyline, actress Jennie admitted: “Gutted, I think, initially! It is a big deal to potentially not have scenes with Alan again, or nice things with him. That’s sad, but I was also really, really touched and kind of honoured that the writers gave us this story.

“Coming up, we’ve got the longest scene I’ve ever filmed. It’s 18 and a half pages long – and normally the scenes we do are about five pages long. There are about 60 in an episode, so it’s about a fifth of the episode where we’re doing this one scene. It’s a real privilege to have been given these scenes to do.

“I love being in that house with Alan. I love working with Alan and I do really love shouting at Alan! Quite a lot of the scenes we’ve got coming up are like that.”

Speaking about whether her character’s relationship with Tyrone has begun to fizzle out, Jennie added: “Fiz definitely doesn’t feel like that. She feels like everything is okay. But I’m pretty sure Tyrone thinks they’ve lost their spark.

“Fiz is happy because everything that she ever wanted was a family and to be settled. She never had that as a kid because she had a terrible mum and we know that. Fiz now feels content and like life is where she wanted it to be.

“Fiz thought it was all okay and they were just rowing like normal people row, because life is hard. But that’s not what it was – it was that Tyrone was wanting to be somewhere else, which was with Alina, not Fiz.”

Coronation Street has confirmed that Fiz’s efforts to win Tyrone back will be to no avail – and that Tyrone and Alina will embark on a full-blown affair this spring. 

Fans have been convinced there’s an affair on the cards for Tyrone and Alina ever since he kicked her out of the flat after she burst in on him wearing nothing but a towel. 

Tyrone cheated on Fiz once before back in 2018 when he had a shock romp with Gemma Winter. 

Could another affair be the final nail in the coffin for Tyrone and Fiz?

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