Coronation Street spoilers: Lauren caught in online sex videos as terrifying grooming story is ‘confirmed’
Desperation sets in for Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton) in Coronation Street next week when she resorts back to creating O-Vidz content to pay her energy bill.
Viewers of the ITV soap will remember that Lauren’s ex-flatmate Ryan Connor (Ryan Prescott) was using the site last year, engaging with users who were complimenting his body in the wake of the devastating acid attack that scarred him for life.
Ryan had been using a filter over his face to hide the scarring, but when the filter glitched it revealed to everyone – including all of his neighbours – that he had been stripping off online.
O-Vidz is a fictional subscription based content creation website in the Weatherfield universe, that follows a similar model to real life OnlyFans, a site that is primarily populated by users creating amateur pornography.
It was later revealed that then-17 year old (and therefore underage) Lauren had been using the website illegally to make quick cash, much to Ryan’s horror.
Upcoming scenes will see her panic about her upcoming English exam when she discovers that all of the books she needs to revise are out on loan from the library.
Coming to the rescue, Bobby Crawford (Jack Carroll) asks Evelyn Plummer (Maureen Lipman) to scour the charity shop to find the reading material for her. To thank Bobby for his kindness, she agrees to go on a date with him.
Arriving home on cloud nine, events take a dramatic turn when a final demand letter from her energy company lands on the doorstep, devastating Lauren.
In recent months she has hidden away a secret boyfriend who has been helping her out financially, with fans theorising that we probably already know who her lover is. But when he comes to the rescue offering to pay her debts, Lauren puts the phone down on him and insists he stops contacting her.
Later that evening, when Max Turner (Paddy Bever) and Sabrina Adetiba (Luana Santos) call round to her precinct flat, they stumble across a scantily clad Lauren admitting she was in the middle of making O-Vidz videos.
Will her friends be able to help her pay her debts, without having to turn to the dangerous website again, or will she fall into the same trap as Ryan and have her nude photos leaked?