Corrie’s Emma Brooker leaves tonight after actress alludes to prison rotation

Coronation Street’s Emma Brooker is leaving tonight’s show after actress Alexandra Mardell dropped out of the ITV drama. But how will she leave – and is prison on the cards for Emma?

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Emma Brooker is leaving Coronation Street tonight as Alexandra Mardell quits the ITV show.

Actress Alexandra is leaving the show tonight after four years playing the role of Emma, ​​and while the door remains open to her return, the plot she exits from is being kept a secret from the public. viewers until it airs tonight.

Emma grows closer to Jon, Ted’s nephew, and on Wednesday’s episode he finally found out Faye and Emma were involved in his grandfather’s death. While she vowed to go to Australia with him, and emphasized to Faye and Craig who were worried he wouldn’t tell the police about it, there could still be a twist – including a detention sentence. can happen.

Alexandra has teased that Emma will struggle in prison, if that’s where she ends up.

“It’s not going to be good,” she told The Mirror, “I feel like she’s going to be targeted right away. It’s interesting to see if she goes to jail and comes back in the future, how will she change like that. how, how. life in prison changed her.”

While she was keeping the storyline to a close, Alexandra confirmed that she wouldn’t be killed in her side story.

“I’m very happy, I’m really satisfied. Even saying goodbye is hard enough but the small hope of one day, maybe it’s the possibility that I can come back, that helps you carry on,” she said.

“It’s not goodbye forever, you never know but I’m really glad she wasn’t killed.

“I certainly didn’t draw a line under it. Like I said I could see how long people were there, I don’t know what the future holds but I’m glad Emma is alive and I hope she does. He’s still alive.”

Alexandra said leaving the ITV soap was a “really difficult” decision, but she was ready for a new challenge.

“It was really, really hard. Even now I still like what I did! I know it works for me but I can easily see why people stay there for 20, 60 years, because it’s a great place to work,” she explained.

“But I just wanted to play another character. Since I had to explore Emma in so many different ways, I also wanted to try out a lot of other people.”