ITV Coronation Street Lauren’s kidnapper ‘sealed’ as eagle-eyed fans spot clue

Coronation Street fans are convinced they’ve figured out who kidnapped Lauren Bolton as the ITV soap dropped more clues on Monday night.

Only recently, Roy Cropper was wrongly arrested on Friday night on suspicion of murdering his former employee. Soap fans will recall that troubled youngster Lauren abruptly left the cobbles earlier this year and love interest Bobby has been left concerned after he found her flat unlocked with Lauren nowhere to be seen.

Soap fans never saw Lauren leave and it seems she told no one close to her of her plan to leave Weatherfield aside from Roy given she immediately vanished. Bobby reported Lauren as missing to the police and Roy has found himself under suspicion due to his kind nature, especially after he was caught innocently cleaning Lauren’s flat, which some people thought proved he was guilty.

On Monday night, the hit ITV soap offered more updates about Lauren as Max Turner overheard David and Shona Platt speculating whether Lauren’s dad’s far right group could be involved in her disappearance. Viewers will recall that Lauren first arrived in Weatherfield in 2022 after helping to recruit Max to an extremist far right gang.

Max was initially interested in Lauren, but things soon fizzled out between the pair when the truth about the group’s plans were revealed. Her dad was one of the leaders of the group and she had been dragged into the whole thing alongside Max. Since then, Lauren had tried to turn her life around before her disappearance.

Later on Monday’s episode, Max decided to secretly pay Lauren’s dad Reece a visit in prison, where he grilled him about his daughter’s whereabouts and accidentally let slip that Roy had been wrongly suspected of Lauren’s murder. This resulted in Roy being held hostage at his café as two dodgy men interrogated him.

It was soon revealed that the dodgy men were in fact friends with Lauren’s dad Reece and they demanded that Roy tell them what he has done with Lauren. Thankfully Roy, who kept repeating he was innocent, was rescued in time by Nick Tilsley and Carla Connor, who sent the thugs packing. Later, Carla accompanied Roy to the police station, where they gave a statement.

Meanwhile on the episode, Tracy Barlow finally learnt that love interest Tommy Orpington was moving to Spain for a new job as a football coach. Tracy learnt the news from her scorned estranged husband Steve McDonald, who has been left heartbroken over her affair with Tommy, and took delight in telling her he was leaving the cobbles for sunny Spain.

Earlier this year, Lauren had a secret boyfriend prior to her disappearance and at the time fans predicted that it could be Tommy. The former fictional footballer and local Weatherfield celebrity became a regular character on the soap around the same time that Lauren’s storyline escalated.

Other clues included Lauren seen wearing a Weatherfield County FC jacket, which happens to be the football team he played for, as well as a huge bouquet of flowers she received with Tommy spending a lot of time in the florist a the moment due to his romance with Tracy.

With Tommy suddenly moving to Spain at the same time as Lauren going missing, as well as the investigation heating up, viewers think he could be behind her disappearance. Taking to Twitter, now X, one person said: “I think Tommy the footballer is Lauren’s secret boyfriend. Something dodgy about him… #Corrie” while another added: “Tommy O has something to do with Lauren’s disappearance i’m sure of it #Corrie.”

Elsewhere, one person said: “I wonder if Tommy is Lauren’s secret boyfriend? #Corrie” while another wrote: “I don’t like Tommy Orpington. Does he have an alibi? He could have killed Lauren. #Corrie.” It remains to be seen what has happened to Lauren and who is behind her disappearance…