A CORONATION Street legend has quit after 20 years working on the soap. Their first contribution to the long-running ITV drama came in 2004. 6 Script writer Jonathan Harvey has now left Coronation Street Credit: Getty 6 He worked behind the scenes on the soap over two decades Credit: Instagram 6 The beloved personality first joined the team in 2004 and wrote over 330 scripts Credit: Getty Writer Jonathan Harvey went on to pen 331 Coronation Street scripts for the likes of Sally Dynevor , Helen Worth and William Roache .
Now, the personality has announced his departure, just as his final instalments made it to air on October 2. Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter , he wrote: "My last episode of Corrie is on tonight. Paul’s funeral .
"Jan McVerry’s written the first half and me the second. Sure it’ll all be plain sailing and everyone’ll get on and it’ll all be lovely," along with a string of eye emojis. READ MORE ON CORRIE OH DEERING! Corrie fans predict huge plot twist as they think Joel will ‘fake’ his death HOLIDAY HORROR Corrie's Lucy Fallon says Bethany costs family everything with lipo decision One devastated fan wrote back to the writer, saying: "What do you mean, your last???? NO, surely not!" After reading the comment, he then admitted that he actually left the soap five months ago.
However, the scenes that he personally wrote had only just made their way onto the airwaves this week. Jonathan replied: "I actually left five months ago but it’s shot so.
