{"id":21390,"date":"2022-09-05T01:01:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T23:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1699354"},"modified":"2022-09-05T01:33:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T23:33:29","slug":"coronation-street-boss-teases-kellys-exit-as-cataclysmic-explosion","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/coronation-street-boss-teases-kellys-exit-as-cataclysmic-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Street boss teases Kelly\u2019s exit as \u201ccataclysmic explosion\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Laura Denby\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 05 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Kelly Neelan (Millie Gibson) will be leaving our screens soon as the character is set for an \u2018explosive\u2019 exit from Coronation Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking for the first time about star Gibson\u2019s departure<\/a>, producer Iain MacLeod is saddened to confirm the news, but adds that Kelly\u2019s final scenes will take place during a huge week for the ITV soap.<\/p>\n

He reveals to RadioTimes.com<\/a> and other press: \u201cWe all know, and it leaves me with a heavy heart to say it, but we all know Kelly\u2019s leaving the show. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo we thought, well, the fact that Millie is going and therefore Kelly is going allows us to go really big and do something incredibly high stakes, to maybe have some characters step on all these landmines that we\u2019ve buried for them over the years and have them all go off in one cataclysmic explosion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kelly\u2019s exit involves a rooftop showdown. (ITV)<\/span><\/figcaption> ITV<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

MacLeod is referring to one bombshell in particular \u2013\u00a0the fact that Kelly has been left unaware that her guardian, Gary Windass (Mikey North), killed her dad Rick! Gary has got away with more than one murder<\/a> over the past few years, but now that Kelly is on her way out, the time has finally come for Gary to face the music.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinding ourselves in a position where we have to exit Kelly just means it\u2019s kind of now or never,\u201d MacLeod adds. \u201cSo we\u2019ve gone for broke with it and done something I think is really special.<\/p>

\u201cWe\u2019ve reall<\/span>y thrown everything at this week to try and bring out all the big secrets, lies, reveals, schemes; it\u2019s literally got very high stakes jeopardy.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also teases that the episodes in question will feature technology that no continuing drama has ever used before.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe centrepiece to the week is a sequence that we\u2019ve shot using technology that\u2019s more commonly found in things like The Mandalorian. It\u2019s called a volume wall. <\/span>Basically, it means you can put your actors anywhere that you can imagine \u2013\u00a0you can essentially design a 3D world.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019ve done is create this incredible rooftop sequence with a twinkling Mancunian cityscape behind it, so that we can do things that you can never normally do in a location shoot. You can put real actors in what appears to be very real danger without using stunt performers, you can have the camera behave in a way that it can\u2019t do in the real world unless it was being operated by an Avenger!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019ll just have to tune in to find out what happens between Gary and Kelly \u2013\u00a0but make sure you don\u2019t miss a moment, as there\u2019s not long to wait!<\/p>\n

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