Coronation Street's Amy Barlow star admits 'anxiety' as she takes on rape storyline

Soap watchers were reeling from upsetting scenes in Friday night's epsidoe of Coronation Street as Amy Barlow was raped by her best friend's boyfriend Aaron Sandford. The flatmates were seen bonding over drinking games after they both fell out with Aaron's girlfriend Summer Spellman.

Coronation Street star Alison King, who plays Carla Connor on the long-running soap, celebrated her 50th birthday in style. Alison's co-star, Samia Longchambon who plays Carla's former sister-in-law Maria Connor, took to Instagram to share a snap of the star-studded celebrations.The photo saw Samia and Alison posing alongside Julia Goulding, Jane Danson, Tina O'Brien and Georgia Taylor. Captioning the glam pic Samia wrote: "Celebrated our awesome Ali Kings’ birthday with these queens last night #birthdaygirl #friends." Fans of the actresses were quick to comment on the snap, with many wishing Alison a happy birthday.

Coronation Street is tackling the issue of non-consensual sex with a harrowing storyline that saw soap favourite Amy Barlow preyed on by her best friend's boyfriend. In Friday night's episode (March 3) Amy was raped by Aaron Sandford after the pair both fell out with Aaron's girlfriend Summer Spellman.

Coronation Street fans were reeling from harrowing scenes in Friday night's episode (March 3) as Amy Barlow was raped by her best friend's boyfriend Aaron Sandford. Viewers saw Aaron prey on Amy after the pair were drawn together when they both fell out with Summer Spellman and they celebrated Aaron's promotion to become a mechanic at Kevin Webster's garage.

Coronation Street star Elle Mulvaney has shared how she has been supported over her latest hard-hitting storyline. The actress, who is famed for playing Amy Barlow in the ITV soap, has also spoken about the 'challenging' scenes viewers will see on Friday night (March 3) and in the coming days and weeks as Amy is raped by friend Aaron Sandford.

Coronation Street star Elle Mulvaney has sent a message to fans ahead of the soap's return to screens with difficult scenes ahead. It was revealed last month that the ITV soap star's character Amy Barlow will be raped by Aaron Sanford in a new non-consent storyline.

Coronation Street have recast Jackson Hodge after six years as the character is set for a return, leaving Faye Windass in turmoil. Viewers will recall that Jackson is the father of Faye's daughter, Miley, who she gave birth to in 2015 when they were both teenagers. However, soon after Miley's Christening service, Faye struggled with being a young mum as the Hodge family offered to look after the youngster.

Coronation Street spoilers see Daisy Midgeley's stalking storyline take another terrifying turn as sinister Justin's dark link to her mother Christina is revealed. Only recently, Justin has been inflicting a terror campaign on Daisy after first meeting at hospital last year - and despite Daisy going to the police to report her stalker, they haven't taken her concerns seriously. In upcoming scenes, Daisy meets her mum, Christina, for lunch but when her mother introduces her new boyfriend...

With the FA Cup upon us a number of regularly scheduled TV shows have had to be rescheduled, including popular soaps EastEnders, Emmerdale and Coronation Street. From 7pm on Wednesday (March 3) the football will be dominating television screens, filling the schedules for both the BBC and ITV.

Next week on Coronation Street Amy Barlow wakes up, hungover and with no memory of how she got into bed in harrowing scenes. In the garage, a hungover Aaron feels wretched.

Lucy Fallon welcomed her first child, a son Sonny Jude, in an emotional birth, which left her and footballer boyfriend Ryan Ledson sobbing "happy tears" upon their newborn's arrival. But the birth wasn't without its drama and the former Coronation Street actress told OK! she was induced at 38 weeks on the 29th January when doctors noticed Sonny's growth had started to slow down. “I was having tiny contractions during the day,” the 27 year old recalled.

EastEnders, Emmerdale and Coronation Street are in a huge schedule shake-up next week thanks to the Live FA Cup Football. Next week, soap watchers will be disappointed to see Wednesday's episodes cancelled and instead replaced with football, which will be airing on both BBC One at 7:30pm and ITV at 7pm. While EastEnders will be cancelled again on Tuesday for the Match of the Day Live: The FA Cup which will air at 7:30pm with Emmerdale going back to its old time of 7pm so Live FA Cup Football can air 7:30pm.

She's a favourite among Coronation Street fans and you couldn't blame them for worrying that Carla Barlow - nee Connor - could be on her way out of Weatherfield. Viewers of the ITV soap have been left horrified as the Underworld boss, played by Alison King, has become the latest target for serial killer Stephen Reid.

Coronation Street alumnus Adam Rickitt is still busy at work with his successful side business in Knutsford, Cheshire. Co-ran by his Good Morning Britain correspondent wife Katy, 'Dexter and Jones' is a craft beer/artisan gin/fine wine passion project for the part-time actor, who also popped up in Hollyoaks as Kyle Kelly a few years back.The 44 year old, sporting a long blonde mane of hair, was snapped loading some of their products out of the shop earlier today ahead of opening time. According to a website description, Dexter and Jones stocks "more than 450 different craft beers, 10 draft beers (which are ever changing), more than 150 small batch gins and more than 60 different wines.

Coronation Street actor James Craven has been reflecting on an upcoming storyline for his character Aaron Sandford, who gets drunk with Amy Barlow (Elle Mulvaney) and ends up having sex with her – without her consent. Amy and Aaron’s night of drinking games and flirtatious behaviour leads to her drinking so much that she starts to feel ill. As she and Aaron kiss on the bed she pushes him away because she feels sick, and after that everything’s a blank to her.

Coronation Street fans were left horrified by a "disgusting" twist for poor old Daisy Midgeley on Wednesday night as she continues to be stalked by Justin on the ITV soap During the latest episode, Daisy, played by Charlotte Jordan, was bombarded with a string of texts from Justin as he continues to make her life a misery. An emotional Daisy showed her fiancé Daniel Osbourne the messages and he was left concerned as Justin appeared to send a death threat.Taking action, Daniel insisted they were going straight to the police station as he wasn't taking any chances after Justin's sinister text. However, upon speaking to PC Scott, the police officer played down Justin's terrifying behaviour, saying they will fill out a report but: "Until he [Justin] commits a crime, there is nothing more we can do!" And things went from bad to worse at the end of the episode as Daisy's phone flashed once more as she thought it was Justin but instead it was PC Scott liking all of her past holiday snaps.

Coronation Street looks set for explosive scenes next week as Stephen Reid's downfall is teased as his plan to spike Carla Connor's drink with LSD backfires. Viewers will recall that Stephen has been spiking Carla's drink on the ITV soap recently as "vile" revenge, which recently resulted in Carla woozily driving the Underworld van into Paul Foreman who was on Peter's bike. In upcoming episodes, Stephen gets a taste of his own medicine when he accidentally drinks Carla’s tea, which he spiked with LSD, just before he goes on stage to do a presentation for the new business.

Coronation Street spoilers follow. Coronation Street revisits Hope Stape and Beth Sutherland's slap storyline next week. Fans have been waiting to see whether Beth's guilt will be exposed after she secretly slapped Hope at the start of this month.

Coronation Street star James Craven has shared what's next for his character as he's to be accused of rape. Aaron Sanford arrived in Weatherfield in 2022 when he met Summer Spellman at a diabetes support group.

Coronation Street star James Craven has detailed Aaron Sandford's 'biggest mistake' as viewers are to see him accused of rape. The character, who arrived on the cobbles in 2021 as Summer Spellman's love interest, will sleep with her drunk best friend Amy Barlow despite her not consenting.