Coronation Street spoilers follow.
Coronation Street‘s producer Kate Brooks has spoken about the bombshell arrival of Shona Platt’s sister for the first time – and it sounds like she could bring major trouble to the cobbles. The ITV soap has just introduced Olivia Frances-Brown in the role of Jodie, who is Shona’s younger sibling.
Jodie made her first appearance in the Corriedale crossover special earlier this week, when she was seen tied up in the back of a van being driven by returning Emmerdale character Graham Foster. Since then, Jodie has been keeping an eye on the Platt family after crossing paths with Shona by chance.
Speaking in a new interview, Brooks confirmed: “The mysterious lady with a tree tattoo is called Jodie – and she is Shona’s sister! We’ve mentioned on the show previously that Shona has a younger sister, so we felt the time was right to bring her into the mix and unpack a bit of Shona’s backstory.
“That’s where Jodie comes into the picture. She’s a complicated character, and she comes with a lot of baggage. Their relationship as sisters is quite fraught – they’ve got a lot of history between them. There’s some deep-seated resentment there as well but they love each other, they do have that bond.”
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“Even though they’ve been estranged for a number of years, that bond is still very strong,” Brooks continued. “But Jodie is a really interesting character. She’s a bit of a troublemaker. She’s got a bit of mischief in her eyes.
“All is not what it seems with Jodie. There are a lot of layers to her and the audience are going to have a lot of fun unpeeling those. We’ll be unravelling who Jodie is as a character and what she wants.”
The arrival of Jodie is sure to bring plenty of drama to Shona and David’s door, just after the couple welcomed the arrival of their baby daughter Harper in emotional circumstances.
Spoilers for next week have revealed that Jodie befriends Bethany and Lily, but Nick is much more wary.
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Brooks teased: “Keep an eye on her, because there are lots of secrets to explode. She is going to come and bring an awful lot of drama to the Platt household. Whilst they’ve got Jodie to contend with, they’ve also got baby Harper to look after as well, so they are being pulled from pillar to post.
“Jodie comes in as sort of a lifesaver and makes herself invaluable to that family unit. But she may have ulterior motives!
“We’ll find out exactly why she was in that van. We’ll find out what her link to Graham is. From my time when I worked at Emmerdale, Graham was a character with a murky past who was capable of many things. For Jodie to be embroiled with somebody of that ilk sheds a light on what kind of character she is and what to expect.
“We will absolutely reveal what went on between them and what Graham’s role was in it all. Keep a lookout for it, because it’s story that goes on to be really big as we get into spring and summer. There’s a lot of drama for the Platts coming up!”
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