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Coronation Street fan attacked by trolls for allowing twins to play dying Oliver Battersby

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CORRIE fan Lia Holmes will appear in her favourite soap next week playing a nurse caring for tragic Oliver Battersby. And the role will be especially tough because her identical four-year-old twins Emmanuel and Jeremiah play the dying child.

Oliver will lose his battle with mitochondrial disease after his treatment is withdrawn. Lia, 35, agreed to play the nurse who comforts Oliver as the cast are forbidden to touch the twins under strict Covid filming rules.

She also wanted to raise awareness of the genetic condition, which stops cells producing enough energy for the body to function properly.

But trolls have attacked her for letting her kids take on the role — and members of her family have asked her not to do it.

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