Coronation Street spoilers: Heartache for Dee-Dee as the truth about Joel is revealed
Lovestruck Dee-Dee Bailey (Channique Sterling-Brown) is set to be devastated when boyfriend Joel Deering’s (Calum Lill) secret life is exposed in upcoming Coronation Street scenes.
Viewers will remember that the couple were set up on a date by Adam Barlow (Sam Robertson) after first catching each other’s eyes in the police station – romantic, ay?
The two have grown closer ever since, even spending Christmas Day together, with Joel providing a much needed shoulder to cry on to Dee-Dee in the wake of her dad Ed’s (Trevor Michael Georges) gambling addiction.
However, after months of viewers suspecting that he was hiding something from his new girlfriend, Joel was spotted in an altercation with a mystery woman in last week’s episodes.
Snowed under with work, Dee-Dee asked Joel to meet a prospective new client in the Bistro to talk over details from her case, but was interrupted when furious Emily (Ellena Vincent) burst in and demanded to speak to him.
Later that day, he seemed to show an immense sense of guilt when Dee-Dee admitted she loved him, with her quickly backtracking after noticing his unease.
This week, wracked with guilt, she admitted to Alya Nazir (Sair Khan) that she’s barely heard from him since her confession.
Joel masked his disappearance by saying he’d been busy at work and brought her a huge bouquet of flowers, offering to cook her a romantic meal.
As the drama ramps up, we’ll see Alya grow suspicious of his actions when she picks up a receipt he’s dropped from a jewellers, clearly showing he’s spent a lot of money.
Brushing it off as a pricey cufflinks purchase, he’s later spotted jumping into a sullen looking Emily’s car.
As Alya plays Sherlock Holmes, its not long before she gets her hands on the CCTV footage of Joel from the Bistro, with this new video showing the moment he comes clean to Dee-Dee about Emily being his wife, and later reveals they have a daughter together called Maisie.
He goes on to reveal that their relationship ended when Emily was pregnant because he had an affair.
But what will this mean for his relationship will Dee-Dee, and can she forgive another betrayal in her life after overcoming the drama with her dad?