Coronation Street Christmas 2025: Top spoilers for the festive period
If you look closely, you can see the snowflakes already starting to form
Christmas might seem far off but it will be here before you know it, and Coronation Street spoilers are already prepared.
It’s set to be a time full of excitement, joy, laughter tainted with sadness, tragedy and misery. Would you expect anything else from soap?
Here are eight huge spoilers for the Christmas period.
1. Meets the Driscolls
The Driscolls will make their way to the cobbles next week as they become the new owners of the Rovers. With Eva Price and her family bringing with them lots of secrets, they’ll be at the centre of Christmas storylines.
This year, the soap is going for a ‘community’ feel which will have fans laughing and in good spirits. But, don’t kid yourself. There’s a couple of twists coming too.
Coronation Street producer Kate Brooks teased: “Christmas Day itself is a real family affair.
“And the Driscolls are very much at the heart of Christmas Day. It’s a proper pub Christmas Day. It’s very community-based, very lively. There’s loads going on. Secrets are exposed and whatnot. So it’s a real feel-good episode with a lot of drama as well thrown to the mix.”
2. Former faces
ITV soap executive producer Iain MacLeod recently teased the return of ‘a few familiar faces’ to mark Corrie’s 65th anniversary around Christmas time.
With Eva and Susie Price already coming back, could anyone else be returning too?
3. Billy’s goodbye
Billy Mayhew will leave Coronation Street this festive season, with Daniel Brocklebank confirming the news.
Reports from The Sun have suggested that Billy will be ‘killed off’ in an ‘issue-based’ plot. While full details of Billy’s exit are yet to be revealed, we don’t have long left until his final scenes sadly air.
The decision for Billy’s character to go was a ‘story-based’ decision, marking the end of the character after 11 years.
4. The ultimate sacrifice
With Christmas coming fast, not everyone on the Street will have a happy time of it. Instead, it looks as though one Weatherfield resident might’ve eaten their last mince pie and had their last sip of sherry.
Speaking to the Mirror, ITV soap executive producer Iain MacLeod hinted: “The soap gods demand a sacrifice when you have an event of this kind.”
He then added: “There’s always that equation where you think, ‘If they were to go, the viewers will really care, but what damage will it do to the landscape of the show in terms of the ability to tell stories?”
It looks as though one character will be joining the ghosts of Christmas past by the end of the year.
5. Todd and Theo special episode
At the moment on screen, Theo Silverton has turned violent and controlling towards his partner Todd Grimshaw.
While their toxicity of their relationship will be on the ‘slow-burn’ in the lead-up to Christmas, things are set to intensify as the sad reality of Todd’s situation will be truly explored in a one-off ‘never done before’ special episode focusing on the couple’s relationship.
Kate Brooks said: “We wanted to really show Todd and Theo’s journey in the lead and the build to Christmas. We’ve got a really special episode, which is just focused primarily on their relationship. But it’s told in a completely different, unique, never-been-done-before, way, which will really pack a punch on many levels.”
6. Debbie and Ronnie tie the knot
Debbie and Ronnie are going to tie the knot in a true Debbie Webster style wedding-extravaganza. We’d expect nothing less.
Kate Brooks confirmed that Debbie and Ronnie’s ‘big wedding’ will ‘happen towards the end of the year.’ And, thankfully, there’s lots of love and laughter in store. How rare in soap world?!
She added: “It’s going to be a really gorgeous, joyful wedding. It’s very Debbie in its execution. It smacks of Debbie being lovable and a bit out there.”
7. Becky causes chaos
Becky Swain is the latest villain to rock up onto the cobbles, and she’s currently plotting away to break Lisa and Carla up so that she can jet off back to Alicante with her family.
As we approach Christmas, Becky’s dark side only gets bigger as she causes more trouble for the Connor-Swains.
Kate Brooks explained: “The other stories, which are really kicking off around about that time, we’ve got Carla/Lisa/Becky. That really goes up a gear around about Christmas time. There’s a few really big twists that will keep people hooked and keep people watching as they watch this all unfold. So that’s another big story, which will feature heavily around the Christmas period.”
8. It all leads up to Corriedale
Christmas storylines will be nicely building up to one big moment that is due to air in January 2026 – Corriedale.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you most likely know that Corriedale is the name of the special soap crossover episode airing in the New Year.
This episode will see characters from both Coronation Street and Emmerdale interact for the first time. And, they’ll also be involved in a huge stunt too.
