Alina Pop set for dramatic Coronation Street return with a huge baby bombshell for Tyrone and Fiz

Coronation Street is lining up a return for Tyrone Dobbs’s (Alan Halsall) ex-girlfriend Alina Pop (Ruxandra Porojnicu) in the coming weeks.

And when she does land on the doorstep of Tyrone and Fiz, it’s likely that she’ll also have their toddler in tow!

If we cast our minds back to 2019, Seb Franklin (Harry Visinoni) found Alina had been trafficked into the UK to work at a nail salon, with her ‘boss’ confiscating her passport to prevent her returning home.

After setting up home in Coronation Street, it wasn’t long before she drove a wedge between Tyrone and his long-term partner Fiz (Jennie McAlpine).

Their nine year relationship came to an end, and they both moved into the salon flat together. Tyrone’s pyromaniac daughter Hope (Isabella Flanagan) wasn’t best pleased by their union, and lit a fire in the flat which caused Alina to miscarry a baby.

A few weeks later, she announced she was expecting again, but was upset when she learnt that he’d lied about Hope’s behaviour and decided to jet off to Romania.

Tyrone quickly found her at the Chariot Square Hotel, but she told him that she’d got her dates wrong and was never pregnant in the first place.

However, at the airport departures lounge, she ordered a tomato juice and cradled her stomach, indicating that she was pregnant after all.

Ever since, it’s always been in the back of fans’ minds as to whether she and baby could return, and a recent tweet seems to have confirmed this.

Last week, superfan Shaun tweeted a photo of him and actress Ruxandra outside of the soap’s production site in Trafford, Greater Manchester.

He captioned the snap: ‘@RuxPorojnicu Thankyou SO much Ruxandra for the photo and autograph today, it’s always lovely to meet you.’

What problems this will cause at No. 9, hope of the Dobbs family, remains to be seen – but they’re already bursting at the seams since Fiz’s return from working for Underworld in Norwich.

Alongside Hope and Ruby (Billie Naylor), the couple are also living with Tyrone’s mum Cassie (Claire Sweeney), and his grandmother Evelyn (Maureen Lipman).

When approached by Metro.co.uk, a spokesperson for Coronation Street declined to comment.