Coronation Street viewers will say farewell to Emma Brooker this week as she leaves the cobbles. But how she leaves has been left a mystery and the door will be left open for her to return in the future.
The pink-wearing barmaid has been played by Alexandra Mardell since 2018 and back in February she announced she was leaving the ITV hit soap after four years in the role. She said it felt "like the right time" to depart and last month spent her final days on the Salford set which was full of emotions.
The 28-year-old, who starred in the crime drama Vera and the short film Chocolate Pieces before Corrie, arrived on the famous street as an apprentice hairdresser at Audrey Roberts' salon and had a fling with Audrey's grandson David Platt. And there was a surprise in store as she had no idea that she was working and living on the same street as her biological father Steve McDonald as it emerged that his ex Fiona Middleton was her mum.
