A CORONATION Street favourite is set to die in a huge disaster scene that will rival the show's devastating tram crash of 2010.
The Hollywood style stunt will end in tragedy for a major character in the ITV soap. Sally Carman, who plays Abi Franklin, teased the scenes at the National Television Awards on Thursday after Corrie won the gong for Best Soap.
She said: "It's going to be so big it will rival the tram crash. "You're going to have your socks blown off." Show boss Iain Macleod confirmed the plans and compared the plot to Chekhov's gun – a dramatic principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, so if there is a gun within the plot it must be fired.
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