Coronation Street hinted at Joel Deering’s downfall on Wednesday night’s episode as Lauren Bolton was located and sent to hospital after fainting

Coronation Street was full of explosive scenes on Wednesday night as Lauren Bolton’s baby news was revealed as the missing teenager was located.

Viewers will recall that Lauren made a shock comeback last week as Cait Fitton reprised her role. Weeks on from a brutal attack by Joel Deering, which Weatherfield residents still don’t know about, Lauren, who was believed to be dead, was revealed to be alive as she headed to the hospital to visit Roy Cropper after he suffered a heart attack weeks on from him being wrongly imprisoned for Lauren’s ‘murder’.

And things only got more explosive when Joel confronted Lauren at the hospital, forcing her into a family room and pleading with her not to reveal what happened. As violent and evil Joel went to lash out again, Lauren protected her stomach revealing she was five months pregnant with his baby in a huge bombshell before fleeing the hospital.

During Wednesday’s episode, Joel’s fiancée Dee-Dee Bailey and Bethany Platt managed to track down the missing teen at a squat after retracing her bank statements, where she had been fraudulently using Bethany’s old company credit card. An oblivious Dee-Dee, who is unaware that her husband-to-be is evil, let Joel know as he raced to the scene and discovered Lauren before the duo, where she fainted in his arms.

It was then that Dee-Dee and Bethany discovered her too, insisting she go to hospital to be checked over, believing she’ll be safe there. However, it wasn’t long until Joel spoke to Lauren privately as he demanded she lie to the police, warning her to say it was Nathan Curtis who attacked her, insisting she say that she made a huge mistake and didn’t want to take things further.

Coming up with a backstory, Joel even suggested she pretend Nathan was a subscriber on O-Vidz before things got messy between them. Lauren didn’t want to lie but Joel cruelly pointed out she has no one, promising her a flat and that she could call the shots in their relationship. It wasn’t long until DS Swain, who has been in charge of Lauren’s case, arrived at the hospital to which Joel escaped. The episode ended with DS Swain revealing to Lauren that she wanted to finally get answers behind her disappearance…

Earlier in the episode, before learning of Lauren’s whereabouts, Joel revealed to Dee-Dee that he had booked their wedding for September 27. With Corrie having a history of dramatic reveals and bombshells at weddings, will Joel get exposed in September during his wedding? Taking to Twitter, now X, one person said: “27 September – Joel’s days are numbered! #corrie #coronationstreet”, a different account put: “If they’re getting married at the end of September, l guess that mean they’re gonna drag this Joel situation out for another 2 months bc we all know it’ll come down to the wire with the wedding #corrie”