Coronation Street youngster Hope Stape has a reputation for lying about small things and recently got on the wrong side of Beth Tinker.
In the past couple of months, Hope (played by Isabelle Flanagan) has been giving Fiz Stape (Jennie McAlpine) and Tyrone Dobbs (Alan Halsall) grief with her behaviour. However, things went too far when Beth Tinker (Lisa George) slapped Hope for lying about her dog Peanut biting her and killing her chinchilla, Cilla. Official Coronation Street spoilers have revealed Lisa is set to be exposed for her attack on Hope which could make her lose everything.
A few weeks ago, Fiz and Tyrone were horrified when Hope came home from school visibly upset and claimed Beth had hit her in the face.
Beth was immediately confronted by Fiz, who heard Beth’s denials and assurances that she would never act in such a way.
Tyrone and Kirk’s friendship suffered because of their argument, but the women chose to put their differences aside for their partners.
Hope became enraged and stormed out of the house when she learned that the adults had chosen to ignore the alleged incident.
Following her, Beth apologized for hitting her and offered Hope unlimited cuddles with Peanut in an effort to keep her from telling anyone what had happened.
The youngster, however, is renowned for her cunning tactics and was able to persuade Beth to give her some cash to defuse the situation.
Hope will confess that Beth slapped her in upcoming scenes on the ITV soap opera with Sam Blakeman (Jude Riordan).
She advises him against trying to set her up because no one would believe her.
Sam is astounded by the information and makes the decision to inform Tyrone that Hope is being truthful about the incident.
How will Tyrone react when he learns that Beth had manipulated them and that his daughter was telling the truth?
Is the long-standing friendship between Tyrone and Kirk over now?
Will Kirk stay with Beth knowing what she did to his closest friends if he learns that Beth hit Hope and made up the incident to protect herself?
Hope is known for her need for constant attention, leaving her to do some questionable things.
However, Coronation Street writer Ian McLeod has admitted things for Hope and her family will soon settle down into a calmer life.
Appearing on Loose Women last week, he said: “She’s certainly not going to continue going down such a troubled path, in the short to medium to long-term.
“We thought, actually, we’ve done some very dark and twisted things with that character, and okay that’ll still be part of her, but for the next 12 months, we’re going to do normal pre-teen stuff.
“We’re going to be building a friendship with her and Sam [Blakeman], that will verge on a very innocent pre-teen romance a little bit and they try to navigate those waters.
“Yes okay, it will always have a Hope twist on it because she’s maybe wired a bit differently than most kids her age.
“She won’t necessarily get help, but we’ll see a more down-to-earth grounded side of her.
“Hope and Sam, we’re taking as our benchmark ‘PJ and Duncan’. What if we can take these kids that are, like, 10 and grow them for a decade into this incredibly rich friendship?
“That’s what we’re hoping to do, obviously both of those actors are so talented that they might very well be off to Hollywood by the time they’re 14.
“But if we can keep them, we’re trying to PJ and Duncan them up.”
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