Coronation Street star confirms boss’ plan to kill Maggie

A troublesome face (Picture: ITV/Metro)

Maggie Driscoll (Pauline McLynn) is a fiercely loyal woman in Coronation Street. Her main focus is to always protect her family and it’s an excellent trait to have, however, the need to keep her loved ones safe pushes her to sometimes commit dark acts.

Everything changed for the Driscoll family a few weeks ago when they discovered Will Driscoll (Lucas Hodgson-Wale) was being sexually abused by his teacher Megan Walsh (Beth Nixon).

The aftermath has been extremely difficult for a number of reasons. At the time, the family knew Megan was pregnant, but she – unsurprisingly – refused to take a DNA test.

Copper Kit Green (Jacob Roberts) also told the clan that without the test, there wasn’t any other physical evidence confirming something inappropriate happened between Will and Megan. With Will in denial, it meant proving a crime had taken place was nigh-on impossible.

Deeply frustrated, Maggie headed to see Megan and tried to scare her out of Weatherfield. Megan is also a woman up for a fight, which meant she wasn’t going to roll over and give Maggie what she wanted.

These two women are now part of a group of five residents at risk of being murdered. We know that one of them has been killed, but the exact identity hasn’t been revealed just yet.

Amid the hatred Megan feels towards Maggie, Ben Driscoll (Aaron McCusker) also has motive to murder given that he’s only just found out his biological father isn’t the man who raised him. The list of who wants Maggie dead is shorter than say Theo Silverton (James Cartwright) or Carl Webster’s (Jonathan Howard) – but that doesn’t rule her out.

To further fuel the possibility of Maggie being the dead body, star Pauline McLynn has revealed something pretty interesting about her character, and what she discovered when she joined the show last year.

Maggie has tried to scare Megan away (Picture: ITV)

‘I far prefer to be a villain’, she laughed as she chatted to us.

‘I will say this, when I joined the show, I was told that the plan for the character was to kill her. So we shall see! I think you’ll find when you watch all of the five stories that it’s very possible more than one person is dead, that’s another thing I will say. And the third thing, is that the wonderful Kate Brooks said to me once, you’re going to get a set of scripts and it looks like you’re dead – and you might be. I just wanted to warn you! We don’t know.

Teasing the drama set to unfold over the coming days, Pauline added: ‘She seems very dead at the end of the week. Assume nothing. You might be being fed one thing which is true, but it could be more than one. It’s also brilliantly clear that any one of the five could be a killer, whether or not they’ve killed the person you believe to be dead or not. It’s brilliantly seeded in. There is a justice in Coronation Street, if you do a crime, you have to pay the price.’

With Megan also in with a chance of meeting her end this week, Pauline has reiterated that her character is ‘capable of anything’ when she’s reached her limit.

Pauline arrived as Maggie last year (Picture: ITV)

‘I think there is so much joy in being let loose on a story and such great storytelling’, she said.

‘You’re in for such a treat for the week and beyond. It gives you the joy in being able to just go for it. As long as you can ground it in some empathy or reason why people are doing what they’re doing, I believe you are allowed to luxuriate in the decisions you’ve made, or deal with them. One dodgy decision, you have to keep covering that up.

‘In that way, I think Maggie has reached the point where she is capable of anything. She’ll worry later about how to deal with the fallout. That’s a brilliant and liberating place to be.’

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