Coronation Street spoilers follow.
Coronation Street star Jack P Shepherd has confirmed on-screen wife Shona Platt's exit storyline.
While actress Julia Goulding is on maternity leave, her character is being written temporarily out of the soap – though Jack (who plays David Platt) assured fans that she will thankfully not be a victim of evil Stephen Reid.
"No, no, she’s not [going to be Stephen’s next victim]. It’s not dramatic at all," he told the Daily Mirror.
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“I can tell you she goes off to look after Lily in London. She’s doing a football tournament in London and she needs a chaperone. She goes, ‘I’ll go’, and goes off on maternity leave."
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Jack went on to note: “The last time Julia went off on maternity leave, Shona got shot! So it was like, what are we gonna do? Are we gonna do that again, is she gonna leave David?
"But no, it is gonna be a run of the mill. She goes off and then she comes back.”
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Julia welcomed her second child with Ben Silver last month, a girl they’ve named Emmeline Beanie Silver.
"On Saturday our little girl arrived. We’re absolutely elated and Franklin is besotted with his little sister, Emmeline Beanie Silver. She’s perfect," the actress said at the time.
The star revealed over the summer that she would be welcoming a second baby, telling OK!: "It's been quite hard to keep it secret and they've dug out my maternity clothes from three years ago, so it's all systems go again."
Coronation Street airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX.
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