Bethany Platt's romantic feelings for Daniel Osbourne could play a huge part in her departure from Coronation Street.
The brief kiss between the two in the run-up to Sinead's tragic death from cancer continues to torment Daniel (Rob Mallard), though Bethany (Lucy Fallon) still harbours some feelings for him.
When producer Iain Macleod recently chatted with Digital Spy and other media, he teased how Daniel's guilt will continue taking a toll on him in the months ahead.
"We have got the interesting next chapter of the Daniel and Bethany story, which is about Daniel's grief," the producer said. "One thing that soap typically struggles with is telling a realistic grief time-frame because we're in that person's house, head and mind in every day, and it gets to the point whereas a viewer you think: 'This is really truthful, but it's getting quite dark now'.
"But I think we've found a really clever way of realistically portraying the next chapter of Daniel's grief."
Macleod also refused to rule out the possibility that the two might someday officially pair up as a couple.
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"That indeed is the question actually," he teased. "That's the point of the story. In one of their heads, it's a romance. In the other, it's slightly more complicated than that.
"I think we've cracked what's a really interesting grief story, which isn't just Daniel sitting in his flat feeling really lonely. That's going to be quite big at the start of the year and ultimately form part of Lucy Fallon's exit story, without saying too much more about it than that."
Lucy Fallon was most recently snapped filming some disturbing scenes for Bethany, which might tip that she'll be drawn into sleazy Ray Crosby's web.
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