2026 has seen Shona Platt (Julia Goulding) and David Platt (Jack P Shepherd) so far face quite a lot of drama in Coronation Street.

At the start of January, the couple were involved in the Corriedale crash. They were both rushed to hospital afterwards but there was a greater concern for Shona, who was pregnant with little Harper.

Fortunately, Shona, David and Harper were fine. Shona was transferred back to Weatherfield General, where she gave birth to her daughter.

Harper has been in hospital ever since as the baby needed a blood transfusion, and an operation on her neck shortly after being born.

It’s meant David and Shona have been juggling life at home, and visiting Harper in hospital. It’s a stressful ordeal, but another layer of chaos was added when Shona’s sister Jodie Ramsey (Olivia Frances-Brown) re-entered her life.

As far as Shona’s concerned, reconnecting with Jodie at a time when her life is already busy isn’t a problem. This might be down to the fact she feel guilty for leaving the family home when she became a teen mum, which subsequently left Jodie alone with their troubled parents.

While Shona has worked hard to get to know Jodie again, she remains unaware her sister is busy plotting revenge because of what happened when Shona upped sticks and left all those years ago.

Her plan so far has seen Jodie lie about an abusive relationship she had, and she’s also decided to try and get David to cheat on Shona with her.

In upcoming episodes, Jodie’s hatred towards Shona is further fuelled as she has to listen to Bethany Platt (Lucy Fallon) and Maria Connor (Samia Longchambon) chat about how they think Shona and David are the perfect couple.

She decides to cause trouble by once again attempting to get close to David. When he returns home and finds Jodie with her arm down the back of a chair, she says that she thinks she can feel Shona’s wedding ring. Jodie notes that it’s just out of reach and needs David’s help. He crouches down next to her, and Jodie very much enjoys the close proximity between them.

Towards the end of the week, Jodie tries to cause friction by setting David up and claiming that he hasn’t done any house chores.

Later, Shona opens up to Bethany and says that it feels like she hardly sees David at the moment as they’re always so busy.

Bethany has an idea, but will Jodie stick her nose in and ruin it?

Executive Producer Kate Brooks has already revealed in an interview that Jodie is on the street to set the cat among the pigeons and cause chaos for the Cobbles residents.

‘She’s a really interesting character. She’s a bit of a troublemaker, she’s got a bit of mischief in her eyes. All is not what it seems with Jodie and there’s a lot of layers to her. I think the audience are going to have a lot of fun unravelling who this person is, who Jodie is as a character and what she wants as well.

‘Keep an eye on her because there’s lots of secrets to explode and she’s going to bring an awful lot of drama to the Platt household.’