Coronation Street is set to explore a new grooming storyline - this time involving teen Max Turner. The last time the ITV soap tackled the issue, Bethany Platt, played by Lucy Fallon, was groomed for sex.
Back in 2017 a vulnerable Bethany, then 16, was at the centre of a harrowing exploitation storyline, which saw the teenager fall deeper into the clutches of her much older boyfriend Nathan Curtis. The harrowing plot aired around the same time as millions were gripped by the BBC’s dramatisation of the Rochdale grooming scandal, Three Girls.
The new, hard-hitting storyline is set to highlight the issue of the grooming of disenfranchised and impressionable young men. Viewers will see a lonely and vulnerable Max, played by Paddy Bever, targeted by a gang of extremists ultimately putting his own life and that of his friends and family in danger.
