EXCLUSIVE Coronation Street star Amy Robbins has dropped a huge hint about what could be in store for her character amid the soap’s latest murder plot if it turns out that Lucy is guilty of murder
Amy Robbins has revealed what might happen if Lucy turns out to be a killer on Coronation Street
Coronation Street star Amy Robbins has dropped a huge hint about what could be in store for her character amid the soap’s latest murder plot.
The actress, 55, plays Christina Boyd on the ITV show and the assistant funeral director recently found out through work that her secret daughter Rachel, whom she gave up for adoption as a baby, had been murdered. To make matters worse, Rachel’s daughter Lucy (Anya Dewin) has been placed in the foster care of Sally and Tim Metcalfe whilst her father serves time in prison.
But whilst living at number four, Lucy has exhibited extremely concerning behaviour and spoken of a disdain for her mum, which has led viewers to wonder if she was the one who killed Rachel. In a special episode that aired on Monday night, during a get together with her girlfriends, Christina eventually lost it with Sally, who has forbidden her from seeing her long-lost granddaughter.
In an interview with The Mirror, Amy remained tight-lipped about what the situation will actually turn out to be, but addressed the topic from a theoretical point of view.
Asked how Christina would react if Lucy did turn out to be the one who killed her mum, she said: “Well, I think if anybody’s going to take on something like that, it has to be somebody like Christina, who herself is guilty of having made lots of mistakes herself. So I think if anyone’s going to tackle a difficult situation, it’s her. She’s not going to be put off easily.”
When Christina first arrived in Weatherfield in 2023 as the scheming mum of Daisy Midgley (Charlotte Jordan), eventually becoming part of an elaborate plan to con her own daughter out of thousands and making an enemy out of Jenny Bradley (Sally Ann Matthews) along the way.
Since becoming a regular character in 2025, Christina has definitely been softened by the writers and settled into life at number eleven. Long-lost relatives and secret children are nothing new in soap, but Amy insisted that it still felt like a completely natural choice for her character.
She said: “It’s been a relief in a way. When you’re playing somebody that’s just so seemingly relentlessly difficult and horrible, and stealing Daisy’s money—the last time I’d been seen, she’d gone off and I’d been trying to, you know, diddle my own daughter out of thousands of pounds.
And it’s quite hard to make amends with that in your mind, to sort of find ways to explain that away, because you’ve got to love the person that you play. You can’t think that they’re an absolute baddie.
“So when they gave me all of this, it was like, “Oh, that’s why she is the way she is!” And it’s so helpful. Now it makes total sense to me why she’s the way she’s been with Daisy.
“I didn’t feel like it was a far-fetched story being shoehorned in. I think it’s a very real—it’s a thing, you know? Particularly of a certain period, women of my age who had babies when they just weren’t able to, through no fault of her own.
“And we all carry [something], and to get to an age, when you’re in your fifties or whatever, everybody’s got their story, haven’t they? And it’s very often quite complicated. Life is hard.”
Coronation Street airs weeknights at 8:30pm on ITV1 and ITV X.
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