Coronation Street bosses plot their most grisly storyline yet involving a dead baby born over 20 years ago after a rape
CORRIE bosses are lining up one of their most grisly storylines — involving revelations of a dead baby from more than two decades ago.
Viewers will learn Toyah Battersby buried the stillborn tot in a park after being raped in 2001.
And Toyah, played by Georgia Taylor, 44, will now find out the land is set to be dug up and fears her secret will be discovered.
A source said: “Aside from the fact that viewers want entertainment, this is still an incredibly dark and ambitious storyline, and some longtime fans may decide to pick apart the holes.
“It all played out on screen, the brutal attack, the aftermath, so for it to now transpire that she became pregnant from the rape, suffered a stillbirth all alone before burying her dead baby at The Red Rec has raised quite a few eyebrows on set.
“It’s not going to go down well.”
Last week it was announced that Emmerdale producer Kate Brooks would be taking on the top job at Corrie following the departure of Iain MacLeod, who was promoted to executive producer for continuing drama by ITV bosses despite the soap’s current crisis.
Earlier in the year Corrie legend Charlie Lawson blasted the soap for its sh*te woke plots.
The Northern Irish actor, 64, who played Jim McDonald across a number of stints from 1989 to 2018, believed the late Tony Warren, who created Coronation Street in 1960 and wrote many of the scripts in its heyday, would be disappointed.
It comes after ITV’s flagship soap opera did not appear in the top ten most-watched shows at Christmas, netting around 2.6million viewers and coming 12th.
That was down by almost three-quarters of its audience from the nearly eight million who would have tuned in a decade ago.
Last year it got 2.8million viewers.