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Katie Fitzpatrick

Corrie makeup team warn of 'sensitive content' as they share behind scenes on 'traumatic' acid attack storyline

Hearts were breaking for Ryan Connor on Coronation Street as the DJ took the force of a glass of acid intended for Daisy Midgeley on her wedding day. Daisy's stalker Justin Rutherford was lurking in the shadows at the Rovers Return as the pair locked up the pub.

As Justin hurled the acid in Daisy's direction, Ryan stepped in. Daisy dragged Ryan, who was preparing to start a new life in Ibiza, into the shower and cut the shirt from his back as he writhed in agony in harrowing scenes on the ITV soap on Monday night (March 27).

The 34-year-old actor from Stockport, who has played Ryan since 2018, said about the scenes when Daisy got Ryan into the shower: "There was no acting being done. That was me trying to breathe throughout the five or six hours that we shooted it for. It was cold water because we couldn't show steam.

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