Fiz Stape might have thought her drama with daughter Hope was at its worst last year when she set fire to her ex Tyrone Dobbs' flat with his then girlfriend Alina Pop. But at the end of Wednesday night's Corrie fans' jaws hit the floor when it was revealed that the 11-year-old is up to no good again.
In chaotic scenes at Fiz's hen do as she prepares to marry Phill Whittaker his first wife Camilla insisted that she and Phill are very much in love and he wants her back. It emerged that she'd received emails seemingly from her ex.
"I'm so glad you emailed me I still love you too," she cooed. But Phill insisted he had done no such thing. The finger of suspicion then fell on his meddling mother Mimi and an angry Phill banished her from the house and the wedding.
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As Phill deleted the offending emails, he remarked to Fiz that he was surprised his mum knew how to use an iPad. But later the living room door opened in the darkness at 9 Coronation Street and a figure stepped forward.
Alone in the darkened room, a smirking Hope opened Phill’s ipad and set about typing an email, and fans of the soap were terrified. @xxAlicia89 took to Twitter to say: "Hope the lil devil." And @devereaux_pam gasped: "Oh dear me...Hope's up to more wrongdoing."
@RyanGSoapKing11 said with a stream of terrified emojis: "OMG I knew it was Hope THE DEVIL CHILD.2 @AprilQuinn2x tweeted: "Well, well, well. Should have known it was the devil child Hope. That little girl is relentless in her menace." And @j_raff2021 exclaimed: "What?! I flipping knew it was Hope who send a email! She's going to ruin Fiz's wedding completely!"
But other viewers were sceptical. @itzzzo_ commented: "Hope’s literacy skills must be top notch for a 11 year old if she’s managed to get the adults thinking the emails were from Phill." @AprilQuinn2x wondered: "But how can they not tell a kid’s writing from an adult?" And @Clawmaw asked: "So it is definitely Hope then? A kid! I wonder what she's written that was mature enough to fool a grown adult?"
Hope, Fiz's daughter with the late serial killer John Stape, is protective of her mum. In May she caused havoc when she found out that Phill was planning to write a book about her dad. She took revenge with a mini-digger on his driveway and smashed the windscreen on his car.
Last year firestarter Hope was on trial for the arson attack in the soap, and she didn't care one bit. The 'demon child' started the fire in a fit of jealousy over her stepdad Tyrone's relationship with Alina and the news that they were expecting a baby boy.
Alina later miscarried the child after being rushed to hospital. After being told about the tragedy Hope failed to show any remorse for her behaviour as Fiz and Tyrone covered up for her.
When Alina found out that Hope was responsible she left Weatherfield. And Hope escaped a custodial sentence and was required to attend therapy sessions instead.
Hope started a fire at the Underworld factory in 2019 and shocked viewers by hiding a lighter in her doll's head. The problem child played by Isabella Flanagan also tried to hurt her cousin Joseph by trying to convince him he could fly, bit her stepsister Ruby and put Evelyn's dog Cerberus on a tram to Rochdale.
She was taken to a specialist school in Birmingham in 2018 in a bid to sort her bad behaviour. But her problems resurfaced again after Tyrone fell for lodger Alina and left the family unit.
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