Coronation Street villain Joel Deering’s downfall has been teased.

Viewers will recall that Lauren Bolton made a shock comeback last week as Cait Fitton reprised her role. Weeks on from a brutal attack by Joel Deering, which Weatherfield residents still don’t know about, Lauren, who was believed to be dead, was revealed to be alive as she headed to the hospital to visit Roy Cropper after he suffered a heart attack weeks on from him being wrongly imprisoned for Lauren’s ‘murder’.

And things only got more explosive when Joel confronted Lauren at the hospital, forcing her into a family room and pleading with her not to reveal what happened. As violent and evil Joel went to lash out again, Lauren protected her stomach revealing she was five months pregnant with his baby in a huge bombshell before fleeing the hospital.

During Wednesday’s episode, Joel’s fiancée Dee-Dee Bailey and Bethany Platt managed to track down the missing teen at a squat after retracing her bank statements, where she had been fraudulently using Bethany’s old company credit card. An oblivious Dee-Dee, who is unaware that her husband-to-be is evil, let Joel know as he raced to the scene and discovered Lauren before the duo, where she fainted in his arms.

Lauren Bolton prepared to talk to DS Swain after being located (

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It was then that Dee-Dee and Bethany discovered her too, insisting she go to hospital to be checked over, believing she’ll be safe there. However, it wasn’t long until Joel spoke to Lauren privately as he demanded she lie to the police, warning her to say it was Nathan Curtis who attacked her, insisting she say that she made a huge mistake and didn’t want to take things further.

Coming up with a backstory, Joel even suggested she pretend Nathan was a subscriber on O-Vidz before things got messy between them. Lauren didn’t want to lie but Joel cruelly pointed out she has no one, promising her a flat and that she could call the shots in their relationship. It wasn’t long until DS Swain, who has been in charge of Lauren’s case, arrived at the hospital to which Joel escaped. The episode ended with DS Swain revealing to Lauren that she wanted to finally get answers behind her disappearance…

Taking to Twitter, now X, viewers were quick to point out an issue with Joel’s plan. One person said: “#Corrie Lauren can’t really say it was Nathan if she can’t give a description of him?” while another added: “#Corrie Lauren saying “it was Nathan even though I don’t know who he is”.” Elsewhere, others are hoping DS Swain overheard Joel. One person said: “I hope Swain has overheard everything #Corrie #CoronationStreet @itvcorrie”, a different account put: “Wish swain was behind the curtain listening ! #Corrie” while another added: “Pity Swain didn’t hear that #Corrie…”