Coronation Street are set to kill of Katy Armstrong off-screen, The Sun has revealed.
The newspaper reports that the character, played by Strictly star Georgia May Foote, will be involved in a car accident that takes her life.
And Chesney Brown is set to find out the news that his ex – and the mother of his son, Joseph – is dead by a phone call.
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Next week doesn’t get off to a great start for poor Ches. First of all he collapses at work and is rushed to hospital, while his fiancee Sinead is hanging out with her ex, Daniel Osbourne, who she still has a spark with.
He’s still recovering when Izzy Armstrong gets a devastating call from dad, Owen in Portugal, which is apparently the news that Katy has died in a car crash.
When Chesney hears the news, he jumps out of bed – very much against advice from his doctors – and gets straight on a plane to deal with the situation abroad.
Chesney will be seen bringing Joseph back to the cobbles.
Ches and Katy became parents to Joseph back in 2011. Katy left Coronation Street for a life in the sun with her dad in 2015 and took little Joseph with her.
At the time, the door was left open for her return, but a source has now revealed to The Sun that “Bosses have clearly decided that she has no future in the soap, and have ruled out a return by killing her off.
“You’d have thought they would show such a well-known character being written out on screen but that wasn’t to be.”
Georgia went to reach the final of Strictly Come Dancing with her partner Giovanni Pernice, who this year is partnered with Debbie McGee.
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After a romance with her dance partner, the pair ended things and Georgia began dating model George Alsford.
The pair have since moved to LA and the actress is hoping to crack America.