Coronation Street fans believe they have worked out Joel Deering’s downfall after Dee-Dee finally exposed him

Coronation Street was full of drama on Monday night and Dee-Dee Bailey (played by Channique Sterling-Brown) seems to be getting closer to exposing her fiance Joel Deering (Calum Lill).

It was recently disclosed that Joel was responsible for the disappearance of Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton) after he left her for dead. However, when she returned to the Cobbles, Joel discovered Lauren was pregnant and attempted to murder her by drugging her in a desperate bid to kill the baby. However, his plan failed when she went into labour prematurely and the baby survived.

Dee-Dee discovered that Joel had been dishonest about a piece of jewellery he claimed to have bought for Lauren some time ago. However, during Monday’s instalment, Dee-Dee seemed to piece it all together after she discovered the name of the jewellery shop Joel had bought the necklace.

Things also came to a head at the hospital when Dee-Dee found out Joel was the father of Lauren’s baby – and even worse, that Joel was with Lauren when she went into labour.

Although, little did Lauren and Dee-Dee know that Joel was standing outside the hospital door listening in to their entire conversation.

After explaining she couldn’t call for help when she went into labour, Dee-Dee quizzed Lauren: “Knowing the power you would have over him for the rest of his life…Lauren, could Joel have given you something to make you go into labour?”

“What?” Lauren replied clearly mortified as Dee-Dee shouted: “Could he have given you something?”

As Lauren questioned whether he could have, she remembered Joel had made her something to eat that day and watched her eat it before he left. Shortly after, she went into labour.

Later on, Dee-Dee and Lauren went to the police station to give a statement about Joel. However, Joel was already there. telling officers that he had slept with Lauren “before she disappeared”.

When questioned on why Joel didn’t come forward with this evidence before, he admitted: “Mate, I didn’t want my fiance finding out.”

As the episode came to a close, Joel was arrested by DS Swain (Victoria Myers), but as she did so, Kit Green (Jacob Roberts) intervened and said Joel claimed Lauren took abortion pills.

“She has been trying to take me down,” Joel insisted as Lauren sobbed: “No, I haven’t. I would never hurt my baby.”

“You’re a liar, you’re a liar,” she screamed before DS Swain explained: “I am sorry to do this, but I am going to have to ask you a few more questions under caution.”

Following the hour-long instalment, fans rushed to the comments section to share their thoughts and theories about what will happen next.

Many think Joel will end up killing Dee-Dee while others believe Kit will help Joel to get off any charges. Taking to X, one fan theorised: “Joel is going to kill DeeDee… #corrie.”

“Don’t get yourself killed Dee Dee. We like you #Corrie,” another echoed while a third agreed: “#corrie Joel will murder somebody before he leaves the show.”

Someone else shared: “Oh, he’s broken the sneer of death out, someone is gonna get it #Corrie.”

“I’d forgotten that Kit falsified evidence. Why? He’s an odd one,” a fifth commented while a sixth pointed out: “Kit is a dirty cop. Of course, he believes Joel #Corrie.”

“Kit is gonna be on his side cos otherwise he will be in trouble with planting evidence to get Nathan sent down #corrie,” another went on.

Coronation Street airs Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8pm on ITV1 and ITVX.