IT'S been one of the most talked about Coronation Street storylines in recent years. And now, the mystery of what has happened to troubled teen Lauren Bolton – which has gripped fans of the soap for months – is finally going to be solved. So, who better than Lucy Fallon , who plays the cobbles’ resident journalist and self-appointed detective Bethany Platt , to dish the dirt on what viewers can expect – including the fact that Lauren isn’t dead? “Bethany’s been desperate to pin Lauren’s disappearance on Nathan [Curtis, who groomed her],” Lucy, 28, explains.
“She wants him to go back to prison , so she wants it to be him. But obviously, he hasn’t killed Lauren. "She is actually alive.
It’s going to really throw Bethany when she finds out. It will all be very triggering for her.” The high-profile plot is what enticed Lucy back to the show.
She previously quit Weatherfield in 2020 after five years, but returned last year as the writers thought Bethany was crucial to telling the story. “I am so relieved they didn’t kill me off as I might not be sat here right now. Thanks, guys!” she says, laughing.
“I got the phone call from a producer last April who said: ‘Something is going to happen. Somebody on the Street is getting groomed. And that’s what’s going to bring you back into the story.
’ “I needed that time away. I didn’t go and do an awful lot of work stuff. But I feel like I did quite a lot of life stuff.
[Lucy welcomed her first son.