Thursday, 14 January 2016

Coronation Street - Tracy Barlow vows to get revenge on Carla Connor. (Alison King, who plays Carla Connor, has confirmed she is leaving the soap for good).

Tracy discovers that Carla had a one night stand with Robert Preston.

Tracy is on a high as she has finally reunited with Robert. Unfortunately for her, things take a sudden turn for the worse when she goes to surprise him at the Bistro, wearing only a coat and some sexy lingerie.

When Tracy arrives at the Bistro, she can't believe her ears as she overhears Robert and Carla having another heated row about their recent one-night stand.



Kate Ford, who plays Tracy, revealed: "She is absolutely raging. Her blood turns cold. Tracy cannot feel wronged again by this woman. She is gobsmacked that Carla has ruined things for her once again. Tracy is completely blindsided by her own self importance. She will be quick to forget about all the things she has done to Carla in the past and will see this as yet another example of Carla ruining her life. After she's heard the conversation between Carla and Robert, Tracy's mind is racing and she can't think straight. She's not sure what to do at first. She's in limbo in the Bistro kitchen and is trying to process what she's heard."

Once Carla is left alone in the Bistro, Tracy is left to consider her next move but is stopped in her tracks when there's a sudden break-in.



It turns out that Steph Britton's sleazy ex Jamie Bowman has teamed up with one of his friends to target the business, intending to rob the till and put the frighteners on Steph.

As two men pin Carla to the floor and demand cash, Tracy makes a shocking decision as she quietly leaves without offering any help whatsoever to her enemy.

Ford continued: "Ultimately there's no way Tracy would sacrifice herself for Carla, given what she's just heard. She is quite jittery when she leaves. Deep down she probably knows that she shouldn't have left Carla but she's selfish, she wasn't about to put herself in danger."

With Carla left completely alone and vulnerable, Jamie and his accomplice Lee decide to grab her bag and do a runner as the till doesn't have any cash inside.

A shaken Carla chases after them and just manages to cling onto her bag again, but her efforts backfire terribly as she is dragged down the street by the moving vehicle and gets badly hurt.




Carla is rushed to hospital after the nasty incident and her loved ones hear that she'll need emergency surgery. However, even that isn't enough to earn Tracy's sympathy as she still vows to make Carla pay at some point in the future.

Tracy thinks so carefully about her revenge that she even decides not to tell Robert what she heard, wanting to maintain the element of surprise until the right moment.

Ford concluded: "Tracy can always think of something, although leaving Carla at the mercy of the thugs in the Bistro was pretty low! Ultimately she will stew on it until the time is right. Carla won't get away with crossing her again."

Airs Monday, January 18th