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Coronation Street star Channique Sterling-Brown has hinted that her character Dee-Dee Bailey will suspect foul play in the show's upcoming fire storyline.
The Bailey family face a new drama next week as Ed's builder's yard goes up in flames in tense scenes.
Suspiciously, the fire starts just as Ed starts to struggle with his plan to sell the business. He initially hopes that Gary Windass will buy the yard, but Gary pulls out at the last minute.
Spoilers for next week's episodes have revealed that Dee-Dee's brother Michael spots the flames and heads inside to find Ed. There's no sign of the pair's troubled father, but as Michael prepares to leave, he's horrified to realise that the flames have spread and he's now trapped.
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Asked whether Dee-Dee will fear the worst over how the fire started, Channique replied: "Yeah, I think I think Dee-Dee certainly will. She's a lawyer and it's her job to think of the worst case scenario and prepare for every event.
"I do think she's going to have to walk a very fine line whilst trying to protect everyone but also find out the truth. I think she will feel compromised in that."
On what's next for the Bailey family, Channique added: "Having to rebuild your life once is one thing, but having to do it for a second time is massive and will put a lot of new, and old, strain on the relationships within the family.
"I think Dee-Dee having Joel as her confidant is really vital to getting her through this time. But family always comes first, so I think the decisions she makes now are definitely going to affect her throughout the next year."
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Over the past few weeks, Dee-Dee has been trying her best to support Ed following the revelation that he has been gambling again.
Michael has been less forgiving, especially after learning that Ed sold the Bailey family's Christmas presents at a pawn shop to help pay off one of his debts.
Channique added: "Dee-Dee really struggled to believe it would be down to gambling at first when she found out that her dad had gone to such an extreme measure.
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"Dee-Dee wasn't there when the gambling affected the family the first time, so there was a part of her that was almost out of touch to the depths of what this was going to mean.
"The fact she's not been home for a long time means she has more sympathy and a bit more compassion in the situation and can see it from Ed's perspective with his addiction.
"Michael is feeling the burden from a personal perspective and is really putting his blinkers on, especially having been through it all before. Both of their reactions are justified, but just completely different."
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