ITV Coronation Street Abi’s deepfake culprit ‘exposed’ as cobbles favourite faces prison

Coronation Street Abi Franklin’s deepfake culprit appears to be ‘exposed’ next week as another cobbles favourite faces prison.

Only recently, someone has created deepfake porn videos of Abi using AI, and posted them online and on social media. Abi has no idea who has done it and why, but she knows someone is out to get her. For weeks fans have assumed her rival Cassie Plummer is to blame, amid her clear feelings for Abi’s husband Kevin Webster and jealously towards Abi. However, next week appears to expose the real culprit but have they got the right person?

In upcoming scenes, Bethany Platt lands a new job at a fancy magazine but dreads her first article as it’s a feature in support of killer Corey Brent, who murdered Abi’s son Seb Franklin. Feeling full of dread and guilt, Bethany calls at the garage to tell Abi the news, leaving the mechanic horrified.

Later in the week, Abi does some digging and realises that Stefan Brent is a board director of the production company that made the documentary about Corey last month, he also owns the magazine that wants a feature in support of Corey and she jumps to the conclusion that he must have created the deep fake videos out of revenge.

Having reported Stefan to the police, Abi and husband Kevin Webster watch as DS Swain drags him into an interview room, fervently hoping that their nightmare will soon be over. Later, Bethany calls at the garage and tells Abi that she’ll quit her job if it’s what she wants but it could be useful to have someone on the inside to keep tabs on Stefan. And it’s not long until Kevin calls on Bethany and tells her that if she really wants to help, she can lend him her security pass to Stefan’s offices to which she reluctantly hands it over.

Later in the week, things go from bad to worse when Abi asks Kevin about him getting up in the night to which he puts it down to stress but later calls into the salon with a stolen mobile phone and asks Max Turner if he can hack into it. When Tyrone Dobbs opens an email to find a video of Kevin breaking into Stefan’s office, Kevin assures him it is another deep fake video.

It’s not long until Bethany sees Max with the phone, realising that Kevin stole it and she tells him not to drag her family into the situation. Later, when Kevin turns up at Stefan’s office, the latter says his video footage of Kevin breaking and entering could land him in jail. Meanwhile, Abi is shocked when she overhears Tyrone telling PC Craig Tinker that Kevin has been the victim of a deep fake video and Kevin returns home to find the duo waiting – but will he report Stefan, is Stefan the real culprit and could Kevin face prison for breaking into Stefan’s office?