 Nobody ever really leaves us for good – especially in soaps. From characters coming back from the dead with alarming regularity to old faces popping back, it's become customary for soaps to revisit beloved characters. And the latest reports suggest that Lucy Fallon, 27, is returning to Coronation Street as Bethany Platt, reprising the role for the first time in three years. When could she make her return and why did she leave in the first place? When did Bethany Platt first appear on Corrie? Well, there's two parts to this answer. The actual character of Bethany has been around since 2000 – her conception and birth being such a monumental storyline that the Government got involved. At the time, public health minister Yvette Cooper praised the show's depiction of Sarah Platt's (Tina O'Brien) teen pregnancy. 'We need to make sure that young people themselves are aware of just how easy it is to get pregnant and just how hard it is to be a parent, if we are to get teenage pregnancy rates down,' she said. Bethany Platt was born and all was well – well, minus her dad, Neil Fearns (Paul Holowaty) dying in a car crash and her other grandma trying to kill her to stop her being raised in sin. Lucy Fallon emerged as the teen Bethany Platt for the first time in 2015. Lucy's version of Bethany appeared after she ran away from mum, Sarah, and made it back to Wetherfield where she was found underage drinking by grandmother, Gail Platt (Helen Worth). Why did Lucy Fallon quit Coronation Street? Throughout her initial five-year stint on Corrie, Lucy Fallon's Bethany had some hefty storylines. As a teen, she then 35-year-old Nathan Curtis (Christopher Harper), who was part of a gang involved in grooming young girls in order to be pimped. Bethany was coerced into having sex with random men and was on the verge of being sold into prostitution abroad when she found the courage to report Nathan and his cohorts to t){kind=link}
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Nobody ever really leaves us for good – especially in soaps. From characters coming back from the dead with alarming regularity to old faces popping back, it’s become customary for soaps to revisit beloved characters.
And the latest reports suggest that Lucy Fallon, 27, is returning to Coronation Street as Bethany Platt, reprising the role for the first time in three years.
When could she make her return and why did she leave in the first place?
Well, there’s two parts to this answer.