Coronation Street villain Joel Deering's downfall has been teased. Viewers will recall that Lauren Bolton made a shock comeback last week as Cait Fitton reprised her role. Weeks on from a brutal attack by Joel Deering , which Weatherfield residents still don't know about, Lauren, who was believed to be dead, was revealed to be alive as she headed to the hospital to visit Roy Cropper after he suffered a heart attack weeks on from him being wrongly imprisoned for Lauren's 'murder' .
And things only got more explosive when Joel confronted Lauren at the hospital, forcing her into a family room and pleading with her not to reveal what happened. As violent and evil Joel went to lash out again, Lauren protected her stomach revealing she was five months pregnant with his baby in a huge bombshell before fleeing the hospital. During Wednesday's episode, Joel's fiancée Dee-Dee Bailey and Bethany Platt managed to track down the missing teen at a squat after retracing her bank statements, where she had been fraudulently using Bethany's old company credit card.
An oblivious Dee-Dee, who is unaware that her husband-to-be is evil, let Joel know as he raced to the scene and discovered Lauren before the duo, where she fainted in his arms. It was then that Dee-Dee and Bethany discovered her too, insisting she go to hospital to be checked over, believing she'll be safe there. However, it wasn't long until Joel spoke to Lauren privately as he demanded she lie to the police, warning her to say i.
