Coronation Street’s Shona Platt’s (Julia Goulding) life was turned upside down by a shock reunion with her estranged sister Jodie Ramsay (Olivia Frances-Brown).
Coronation Street fans were expecting fireworks the moment the rogue Ramsay sister escaped from the back of Emmerdale villain Graham Foster’s (Andrew Scarborough) van during the explosive events of Corriedale.
While Shona and David Platt (Jack P Shepherd) were worried sick over their new-born premature baby Harper, Jodie stalked the couple from afar before finally revealing herself – and Shona’s life hasn’t been the same since.
Julia gives us a sneak peak into how Jodie’s back story brings to light a side of Shona that the audience has never seen before.
‘We know nothing of Shona’s family at all,’ she explains.
‘I mentioned that I had a sister in one of my first weeks when Shona and Gail were chatting and we’ve never heard anything since, I think the reason being is Shona escaped her family life after she had Clayton at the age of 13 and obviously we know everything that happened afterwards with Dane and Nathan, the groomer.
‘But I think the reason we’ve not heard much is she carries a lot of guilt for leaving because Jodie was six I think when she left, and they were really tight and she cared a lot about her, but I think she had to choose her own peace first to survive the world that she was living in with a really controlling father, and I don’t think she had any intention of never going back for her, I think as time went on it just got harder and harder. So yeah, she carries a lot of guilt.’
Based on this sneak peak video footage, it seems like Shona has good reason to have regrets. In a heart to heart between the sisters, Jodie bitterly reflects on how she used to idolise her-half sister until she left.
She reveals how she even got a matching tattoo with Shona. ‘What a loser I was, eh?’ she snipes. Idolising a sister who couldn’t care less.’
Insisting that’s not the case, Shona defends that she was a teen mum who could barely look after her baby, never mind her sister. But Jodie refuses to forgive her sister for abandoning her to their toxic parents.
‘Dad was a control freak’, she recalls. ‘And mum wasn’t much better. I really didn’t have a life.’ Although Shona didn’t know this at the time, Jodie persists that she sent Shona letter trying to keep in contact – which Shona is adamant she never received.
The stroll down memory lane soon turns into a vicious row as Jodie turns on Shona. ‘You didn’t miss me!’ she cries. ‘You didn’t care! Just admit it!’
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While Shona had too much on her plate to be the big sister Jodie needed, her life is far from simple in the present. After surviving the Corriedale crash, Shona gave birth to her premature daughter Harper, who was born with a cancerous mass on her neck.
The baby is very weak and needed a blood transfusion soon after being born. With drama like that kicking off, Jodie appears to be returning to Shona’s life at the worst possible time. Julia gives some insight into Shona’s headspace.
‘She is exhausted, she’s just been in a crash, she’s just given birth, she is emotionally exhausted, she nearly lost her husband and her child. And then this blast from the past comes in and she genuinely just says, ‘I can’t deal with this right now. It’s not a rejection, but just give me space for a minute.’
‘And I loved that because I thought ‘Yeah, actually, there’s not much room in her head at the moment for Jodie to be there.’ Not that Jodie listens, she just carries on, pushes through. So Shona is kind of forced in a way to make way for Jodie in her life again – silly thing, that doesn’t go well.’
It certainly isn’t. Jodie’s already cosying up to David by taking credit for Nick Tilsley’s (Ben Price) veggie lasagne and pouring poison in Lily Platt’s (Grace Ashcroft-Gardner) ear about her mean old stepmother Shona. Why is Shona putting up with her twisted sister? Julia explains.
‘She has to be strong enough, because what’s the alternative? She takes far too much on her plate but it’s going to be interesting to see if it unravels her a little bit and what it does to her relationship and the rest of the Platts I suppose.
‘But yeah, I think she’s taking on way too much but she doesn’t see it as having a choice. Harper is her main priority but also I think in a way, she isn’t looking at Jodie now as a grown woman, she’s looking straight back at that six year old girl that she left, and she just cannot abandon her again. So we’ll see how it goes for her.’
‘Shona’s not blinded by (Jodie), she doesn’t let her get away with anything, she still pulls her up and stuff which is again, what we were saying about the writing, it’s been so true because they are still sisters at the end of the day and she will still say ‘Oi you, what are you doing?’
‘So she’s not going to be a wet blanket and be completely blinkered to Jodie’s behaviour but also I think her love for her and the guilt she carries is going to take them down a certain path.’
A dark path, by the looks of it. Coronation Street has already teased that Jodie will turn the head of Carl Webster (Jonathan Howard), one of the biggest villains on the Cobbles right now. What other drama will Jodie bring to the Platts’ door?
‘It’s going to be chaos.’ Julia teases.
We can’t wait!
