CORONATION Street’s Gary Windass risks exposing his killer secret next week when he jumps to Kelly Neelan’s defence when she’s blamed for leaking Asha Alahan’s naked video.
Adam Barlow immediately wonders why Gary is acting suspiciously with the teenager. So who is Kelly Neelan and what is her connection to murderer Gary on the ITV soap? Here’s everything you need to know…
Kelly is the daughter of loan shark Rick Neelan who Gary ended up murdering in self defence last year and burying in the woods.
But when Rick didn’t pick her up from school, Kelly made a brief appearance on the cobbles as she started fishing around and questioning Gary about her dad’s whereabouts.
When Gary told her that Rick was a loan shark and that he’d fled the country she finally went away – much to Gary’s relief.
Gary then started paying Kelly’s school fees in order to keep up the pretence that Rick is alive.
But Gary was shocked out of his skin when he spotted Kelly in the cafe with Asha and Summer earlier this month wearing the local school’s uniform.
After doing some digging, Gary realised that Kelly’s mum had been pocketing the money he’d been sending for Kelly’s school fees and that the teenager had been kicked out of her old school.
Viewers then watched Gary make things a hundred times worse for himself by threatening Kelly’s mum and causing her to do a runner and abandon Kelly – who then turned up crying on Gary’s doorstep.
Kelly is played by 15-year-old actress Millie Gibson.
Millie’s previous big role was Lily in ITV’s 2018 drama Butterfly, which also starred Anna Friel and Emmett Scanlan.
Actress Millie Gibson – who plays Kelly – tweeted back in January that she’d be reappearing in Corrie in March.
Viewers will remember that cruel Kelly deliberately leaked Asha’s video from Corey’s phone as an act of revenge.
At Amy’s party, Asha told her pals that she’d stripped for Corey on video chat, unaware that he’d recorded her without her consent.
Kelly was furious with Asha for not standing up for her during a row with Amy, and deliberately sent the video from Corey’s phone to the party group chat as payback.
As far as we know, Kelly isn’t aware that Gary murdered her father.
But she definitely knows there’s something fishy about Gary after she questioned him about the disappearance of Rick last year.
It’s looking like Gary might manage to expose his secret all by himself simply by meddling in Kelly’s life in upcoming scenes.
Next week’s episodes of Coronation Street will see Gary jump to Kelly’s rescue when Dev publicly rages at her for Asha’s nightmare.
Adam watches Gary get involved and grows suspicious of his motives.
Later, Paul discovers that Kelly was the one who leaked the naked video of Asha and puts pressure on Billy – who’s agreed to let Kelly stay under his roof – to chuck her out of the flat.
But when Gary gets wind of the situation he begs Billy and Paul to give Kelly another chance.
But Billy and Paul are suspicious as to why Gary is so invested in the video scandal.
Can he persuade them to keep Kelly under their roof without revealing his killer secret?
