Life for Fiz Stape (Jennie McAlpine) looks set to get considerably busier in Coronation Street next week as she receives some important news.
The character was away for a huge portion of 2023, working as a supervisor for Underworld in Norwich – a storyline that was devised to facilitate Jennie McAlpine’s maternity leave.
Now back in Weatherfield and busy building a relationship with Tyrone’s (Alan Halsall) biological mother Cassie (Claire Sweeney), as well as dealing with the usual drama that comes with living on the cobbles, Fiz gets a shocking reminder of her past in upcoming episodes.
When Debbie (Sue Devaney) and Rita (Barbara Knox) approach Fiz in the café, they reveal the leader of some human trafficking group in Romania is going on trial and Alina Pop (Ruxandra Porojnicu) could be called as a witness.
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.
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.
The mention of Alina will leave Fiz feeling very anxious indeed, but how on earth will she react if Alina arrives back in Weatherfield and she does have a child with her, as we expected?!
