Coronation Street may have taken a leaf out of The Simpsons' book for eerie predictions after it was confirmed that Geoff Metcalfe's recent comment about washing hands was "a complete coincidence".
Addressing the scene on This Morning today, soap writer Sharon Marshall told hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield had not been an intentional attempt to address the coronavirus pandemic.
She revealed that the scene had been written back in December, when the writers would have had no idea how the virus would take over the world.
She said: "Last night in Corrie, because I was watching it, I saw Yasmeen washing her hands and Geoff go to her, 'I hope you're singing Happy Birthday while you're doing that'. "So I thought, wow, how did they
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