Coronation Street fans left fuming over Michelle Connor update as Ryan remains in hospital

Coronation Street fans didn't seem too impressed after they heard an update on Michelle Connor. The character, played by Kym Marsh, left Weatherfield in 2019 after being horrified to discover sleazy Ray Crosby, who once made sexual advances towards her, was the new owner of The Bistro which she ran with her late fiance Robert Preston.

Michelle waved goodbye to the famous street for a new start in Dublin leading to an exit for Kym after 13 years on the ITV soap. But her absence from Weatherfield has become all the more clearer since her son Ryan became the victim of a horrifying acid attack.

Ryan was left with burns to his face and arm after he stepped in and took the brunt of the acid hurled at ex Daisy by her stalker Justin Rutherford on her wedding day. He suffered a blow when he looked at his injuries for the first time and was told by the surgeon that he was not healing as they had hoped and he needed a skin graft.

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Ryan was also crushed when his ex-girlfriend Alya Nazir told him that she only wanted to be friends. In order to give him a boost Daisy invited Ryan's Ibiza club promoter friend Crystal to see him, but she later told Daisy that she no longer had a job in the offing for him, and wasn't interested in him romantically either.

Feeling more guilty than she did before, Daisy has since been messaging Ryan pretending to be Crystal. Last week, Corrie viewers watched as Ryan, alone in the flat, was overcome by a wave of pain and unable to go out as planned, instinctively called Crystal. But it was Daisy who later came to his rescue when he fell ill and later told he had contracted sepsis.

She has since found it difficult to cut ties with