Corrie's Alison: 'There's going to be fireworks!'

Coronation Street's Alison King reckons the prospect of marriage will lead to further excitement for Carla Connor in Weatherfield. After rejecting a shock proposal from Underworld factory boss Frank Foster (Andrew Lancel), Carla soon changes her mind next week and says yes following a confrontation with the man she really loves Peter Barlow (Chris Gascoyne). "I think Peter thinks there is more to her saying no than meets the eye. He thinks it's all about him - he's a selfish so-and-so and he's got a big ego," she told the Coronation Street website. "Peter's response to her saying no has maybe wound her up a little bit. And Carla quite quickly does a U-turn." But Carla and Frank's upcoming nuptials could soon send Peter into a spiral, says Alison. And that could lead to thrills and spills, not just with the love triangle, but also with Peter's wife Leanne (Jane Danson). "I think that Peter is going to feel that the marriage is happening a bit too soon and he's really doubting her motivation for all of it," she continued. "I think we can expect a few more fireworks between them. I would say it's going to go bam!"

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.