Kirsty Hitchinson is swapping Emmerdale for Coronation Street - and we won't have to wait long to see her in action. Next week an old friend of Leanne Battersby arrives on the cobbles and the actress who plays her may be familiar to fans of ITV's sister soap.
Mandy, who she knows from her antenatal class, arrives and asks after her son Oliver. A devastated Leanne, who was recently told that her boy has a serious life limiting condition, makes out he's fine.
But as Mandy heads off, Leanne is overwhelmed with grief. She then tells Toyah how when her old friend inquired after Oliver, she lied, and now she’s ashamed of herself.
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