CORONATION Street must have been thanking their lucky stars when they secured Paula Lane to play their feisty new character Kylie Turner back in 2010. The brassy troublemaker arrived in Weatherfield without a care in the world as the estranged half-sister of Becky McDonald, played by acting heavyweight Katherine Kelly. Within weeks of making her debut, the soap had moulded Kylie into a personality you loved to hate.
Although she was willing to sell her son for £20,000, her masked vulnerability proved there was more to her than just a lousy money-motivated mother. With her fantastic acting talent, it was no surprise that the soap quickly shifted their focus from Kylie just being Becky's half-sister and a bit of a bad girl to place her at the centre of arguably the ITV soap's most prominent families of the last few decades - the Platt's. When Kylie and David first revealed they were engaged, many fans thought the writers were nothing short of bonkers but the unlikely duo comfortably held the title of Weatherfield's most formidable, and memorable, couples for six years.
Read More on Corrie In 2016, Paula opted to leave the soap and her character was brutally killed off in gripping scenes. Fast forward eight years and Emmerdale fans could not believe their luck when it was revealed Paula had signed up to the cast to play a mystery new character Ella Forster. The hype was huge and Ella's hidden secret was built up by bosses and teased as one of the soap's most dramatic moments of.