Maggie’s secret explodes in Coronation Street with earth-shattering consequences

The truth has finally come back to bite Maggie (Picture: ITV)

Judgment Day for Maggie Driscoll (Pauline McLynn) finally arrives in Coronation Street as her family are torn apart when her darkest shame is exposed. The question is… which one?

You don’t get to be landlady of a pub like Rover’s Return without having a skeleton or two in your closet. The problem is that Maggie takes that a bit too literally. Ever since Coronation Street bosses first cast veteran actress Pauline McLynn of Father Ted fame as the newest acid tongued battleaxe of the Cobbles, fans just knew she must have a juicy secret waiting to explode.

Sure enough, they were right. She killed her husband.

In a special flashback episode last Christmas, it was revealed that Maggie pushed her husband Allan down the stairs to his death after a blazing row. She’s kept this killer secret from her son Ben Driscoll (Aaron McCusker) all these years, knowing that bringing it to the light of day would mean ripping her family apart.

The wildest thing? That’s not even Maggie’s biggest secret! It only proves how far she is prepared to go to protect her family by covering up her real secret!

The night Maggie murdered her husband, they were arguing about her affair. For the past forty years, she has pretended that Ben is Alan’s son, when actually he is the son of Maggie’s mystery man.

That mystery man is none other than Coronation Street legend, Jim McDonald (Charles Lawson).

Fans were shocked by Corrie legend Jim’s link to Maggie’s past (Picture: REX/ITV)

After the iconic moustache-sporting antihero recently died of pneumonia offscreen, Maggie attended his wake where she was recognised Jim’s old army buddy as ‘Jim’s big secret’, a bombshell which left fans slack-jawed.

If you can get over the coincidence that the two most prominent Irish people in the show somehow knew each other intimately, it’s one heck of a game-changer. This connects Weatherfield’s newest clan – the Driscolls – to one of its oldest and most infamous – the McDonalds.

It also means that Ben Driscoll, the new bestie of Rovers’ regular and classic Cobbles character Steve McDonald (Simon Gregson)… is actually his long-lost brother.

This is especially amusing, given the fact the two men have recently struck up something of a bromance that left Steve’s bezzie Tim Metcalfe (Joe Duttine) seething with manly jealousy.

This bombshell could not drop at a worse time for Maggie. The Driscolls are already reeling from the horrific revelation that the youngest of their family, Will Driscoll (Lucas Hodgson-Wale) was groomed into a sexually abusive relationship by his predatory athletics coach, Megan Walsh (Beth Nixon). With Will still under his abuser’s spell, the Driscolls need to be united now more than ever.

Unlucky. Because the cat looks like it’s coming well and truly out of the bag in upcoming episodes of Coronation Street, where Maggie fights to keep her terrible secret under wraps from Ben, with earth-shattering consequences. Something big is about to be spilled in the Rovers, and it’s not a pint of Newton & Ridley’s…

Ben wants answers. Will Maggie give them?

Emotions are running high at The Rovers, with both Ben and Will angry with Maggie for their own different reasons.

When Ben suffers a dizzy spell, a worried Maggie wants to call an ambulance but Ben insists she leave it.

Instead, he’s more interested in Maggie telling him the truth about his dad, since last night’s altercation has given him pause to doubt his parentage.

Maggie’s got some serious explaining to do (Picture: ITV)

Knowing she is beaten, Maggie reveals that Alan was not Ben’s dad. His real dad was a result of her one night stand, whose identity she kept a secret. Ben’s absolutely flabbergasted.

Suddenly, Steve arrives and tells them both that he has left Ollie and Amy together at Number 1. Nobody is prepared for Maggie’s shocking reaction –  will she finally come clean about Jim and Steve being secret brothers?

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