The couple’s relationship looks set to hit the rocks if the truth doesn’t stay hidden in the ITV soap

David Platt is all smiles on his mum Gail’s wedding day but as he’s joined by wife Shona for the special occasion, he’s completely unaware that she’s cheated on him with someone close to home.

As Coronation Street fans will recall seeing David sneaking around last month, intercepting letters sent through the post and deleting emails from Shona’s laptop before it was revealed she was being contacted by Weatherfield Prison about her son, Clayton Hibbs, who killed David’s late wife, Kylie Platt.

Shona has since been beside herself after Clayton tried to take his own life and ended up in hospital, refusing to see her. Weeks have now gone by with David keeping quiet about his involvement with Clayton while his wife despaired over why the prison hadn’t contacted her.

But David’s lie was finally exposed by his stepson Max Turner during Wednesday night’s (December 4) Corrie. David was seen confiding in Max about how he intercepted visiting orders that Clayton had sent from prison and confirmed he’d visited him behind his wife’s back.

Max seemingly agreed to keep David’s secret but all that changed when Shona stepped up her desperate attempts to get answers from the prison governor and as she headed to the jail, she lost her temper by shoving the governor when he wouldn’t reveal the truth about the missing emails and Clayton’s visitor.

A confrontation between the married couple later ensued but David didn’t appear sympathetic and didn’t think Shona should care about Clayton either. The row was interrupted as DC Kit Green arrived to arrest Shona on suspicion of assaulting the prison governor. Shona was later released without charge, but she refused to go home to David and asked cabbie Steve McDonald to drive her back into town instead.

It was then during Friday night’s (December 6) trip to the cobbles that Corrie fans saw Shona confide in her boss Roy Cropper that she’d done something she deeply regretted. She also took the morning-after pill following her night away from home. As suspicion grew over where Shona had been the night before, she told David that Adam Barlow had taken her back to his flat to recover after finding her drunk.

Later on her way out of the Rovers Return, Shona bumped into Kit and their secret liaison was revealed to viewers. Kit smugly asked Shona whether they should chat about the previous night, but she begged him to keep quiet and pretend it had never happened.

Now, Corrie has confirmed what Christmas is set to look like for the Platt household. There’s never a dull moment for the family but with Gail due her fairytale ending on Christmas day, will the warring Platt family allow Gail and Jesse their winter wonderland wedding or will family feuds put a stop to Gail riding off into the sunset with her sixth husband?

Whatever happens, the episode will mark the end of acting legend Helen Worth’s 50 years in Coronation Street and leave the Platts entering a new era without the matriarch who held them all together.

Nick is already in hot water, his affair with sister in law Toyah exposed for a second time by his ex Leanne. Humiliated and scorned once more, Leanne is out for revenge, but this time her plotting could have very serious consequences as Toyah faces time in prison for fraud.

Suspicions mounting, a Christmas Day showdown looms as the Battersby sisters come to blows in spectacular style. David is floundering too as his marriage hangs on a cliff edge following a series of secrets and lies. In debt to Harvey, having stolen Damon’s money, and at war with wife Shona following his attempt to keep her estranged from son Clayton, is David facing more heartache this Christmas?

Unaware of Shona’s night of passion with dodgy detective Kit, has David taken his eye off the ball with his obsession in stopping his mum’s marriage to Jesse, only to discover there’s a villain much closer to home who could rock David’s world at any moment?!Bethany meanwhile struggles to get into the Christmas spirit as she continues to deal with the plastic surgery hell that left her with a stoma. Daniel’s determined to make it a Christmas to remember.