CORRIE ROY IN NEW YEAR TRAGEDY
Street star agony over shock death
CORRIE favourite Roy Cropper faces a new year shock as show bosses kill off his mum.
Battleaxe Sylvia Goodwin is set to suffer a fatal heart attack leaving the soap legend devastated.
CORRIE chiefs are killing off Roy Cropper’s mum in the new year.
Battleaxe Sylvia Goodwin will suffer a fatal heart attack – but the death will occur off-screen.
Coronation Street favourite Roy (played by David Neilson) will receive the news in a shock telephone call.
A show source said: “It’s a shame she’s being bumped off like this.
“She was a great character and everyone loves a Corrie battleaxe.”
Outspoken Sylvia – played by the veteran actress Stephanie Cole – was last seen on the ITV soap in 2013.
She had been on the show two years playing Roy’s fierce busybody mother.
TV critics called her character “a cross between Boudica and Attila the Hun”.
Sylvia had frowned on her son’s relationship with transgender Hayley Patterson (played by Julie Hesmondhalgh).
She also enjoyed a brief romance with the American businessman plans to return to the Street. She Milton Fanshaw (played by the late said in an interview: “I adored Hollywood star Robert Vaughn) my time on Corrie. But I’m terrible, after meeting him on a cruise ship. you see.
She decided to quit Weatherfield “I’m a little bit like a fly – I like to when Hayley was diagnosed flit hither and thither.” with pancreatic cancer – Now Corrie chiefs have leaving her son to cope with decided to bump her off. the impending tragedy New Corrie boss Ian on his own. MacLeod has warned fans
Sylvia was mentioned to expect “some big, heartbreaking on the show last in 2016 stories” in the when Roy got word that coming weeks but insists she had fallen and broken he is not an “axeman”. her wrists while dancing He said: “I don’t tend to and he went to Hastings to SHOCK NEWS: Roy subscribe to the ‘producer look after her. cull’. That’s never really
Following her exit, Stephanie – been my style. I’m quite story led, who has also appeared in Still Open really, so there’ll be characters that All Hours, Waiting For God and go because the story dictates that.” Tenko – made it clear she had no