ITV Corrie spoilers with Maria in creepy stalker hell and Kelly is in danger

Life in the limelight as a politician hasn't been easy for Maria in Coronation Street. Councillor Maria, played by Samia Longchambon, has been targeted over her changes to the Weatherfield refuse collections and it seems that she now has a stalker.

Maria has been hit by a deep-fake video made to humiliate her, in which her face was added to the body of an unknown naked woman. Next week on Coronation Street Maria is nervous about going to a lunch meeting on her own so Kelly offers to accompany her.

Maria is shaken when refuse leader Jimmy approaches her and warns her to keep her nose out of matters she doesn’t understand. But things go from bad to worse when a creepy guy approaches and tells her how much he enjoyed her online video.

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Running out she gets a notification telling her that her phone is being tracked. When Gary calls, a petrified Maria tells him that she thinks she’s being followed. As a terrified Maria scrabbles in her bag looking for the tracking device, she hears footsteps and in a panic, grabs a can of hairspray and turns.

Maria finds the tracking device in her bag and calls the police. Later, as Gary, Kelly and Liam tuck into pizza, Maria draws the blinds, convinced someone might be watching them. And it also seems that Kelly is in danger.

Aadi Alahan us shocked when a wad of cash falls out of Kelly’s bag and she explains that the cash belonged to her late dad and she’s trying to return it to the people he ripped off over the years as a loan shark. Later when Kelly reveals that she’s tracked down another of her dad’s clients and she’s off to pay them back, Aadi says he’ll go with her.

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