Daisy’s big day horror

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Sometimes, we long for a simple soap wedding. Corrie’s first-ever nuptials back in 1961, which saw Annie Walker’s daughter Joan marry fellow schoolteacher Gordon Davies, featured two hiccups: a delay when the bride’s car wouldn’t start, followed by a shock revelation that the groom’s family were teetotal.

Some 134 weddings on, these days the car would have a bomb planted inside by a vengeful gangster and the groom’s dry clan would be a sinister cult, poised to make a ritual sacrifice of the bride on her honeymoon.

It’s Daisy’s turn for big-day drama this week and it’s all been signposted, her Scottish stalker lurking in plain sight twice an episode for at least three months. There’s an attempt at misdirection: Daisy wakes up with a bloodshot eye, the wedding car disappears, and the wrong cake arrives. Soon, she’s convinced her big day is cursed. Well, funny you should say that, love...

With help from Jenny and Glenda, she casts off her nerves and throws on her frock, emerging down the Rovers’ stairs looking every inch the Instaperfect bride she reckons her followers deserve. But as Jenny and Glenda leave, up pops Justin. Approaching Daisy, he informs the object of his twisted affections that no one will want her after what he’s about to do, and then throws a glass of acid at her. Corrie are staying tight-lipped on how this will end, but we have a feeling it’s not going to be with a conga round to Victoria Street.

If you’re after something a little

lighter, behold Brian’s delight as he discovers he’s 8 per cent Italian and plans to track down his Roman cousins. We can only hope this plot will lead to the wonderful Peter Gunn sporting boot-polished hair and a pencil moustache to play Brian’s Italian cousin, Briani. Bellissimo!