{"id":24898,"date":"2022-10-31T22:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T21:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1730561"},"modified":"2022-10-31T22:39:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T21:39:06","slug":"coronation-streets-hope-groomed-for-information-for-killer-book","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/coronation-streets-hope-groomed-for-information-for-killer-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Street\u2019s Hope groomed for information for killer book"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Published: Monday, 31 October 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The truth behind the book about serial killer John Stape (Graeme Hawley)<\/a> was revealed in tonight\u2019s Coronation Street<\/a> (31st October) \u2013 as it turned out that his young daughter Hope (Isabella Flanagan) had been groomed by a journalist for information.<\/p>\n

Hope\u2019s mum Fiz (Jennie McAlpine) was horrified recently when she was contacted for comment on her late husband\u2019s terrible crimes, and the local paper printed an article on John that referenced a child: Hope.<\/p>\n

Fiz and her partner Tyrone Dobbs (Alan Halsall) spoke to solicitor Adam Barlow (Sam Robertson), asking him to take action to try and stop the book from being released.<\/p>\n

They realised from the name of the journalist that this was the very same person that Fiz\u2019s ex, Phill Whittaker (Jamie Kenna), was previously working with on a tell-all book<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Graeme Hawley as John Stape in Coronation Street.<\/span><\/figcaption> ITV<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Tyrone became convinced that Phill was still involved, but he was soon distracted by a discovery. When it was pointed out that the article in the Gazette claimed that Ty\u2019s grandmother, Evelyn Plummer (Maureen Lipman) was 92 years old, Tyrone recalled that he had jokingly told Hope that Evelyn was the same age.<\/p>

It wasn\u2019t long before Tyrone and Fiz realised that Hope had been secretly speaking to the journalist. When they pressed her, she admitted that she had been chatting to someone called \u2018Mad Dog\u2019, who she had told all about her dad.<\/p>\n

As Tyrone fumed, he told Fiz that Hope has been groomed for profit \u2013 while Fiz assured their daughter that she was not to blame.<\/p>\n

Later, the couple sought more legal advice from Adam and\u00a0Tyrone reminded him that Hope had been tricked \u2013 but Adam replied that the secret messages could not be proved, as the game they were sent on didn\u2019t save them.<\/p>\n

With Adam warning them not to get their hopes up about stopping the book, what will Fiz and Tyrone do next?<\/p>\n

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