Paul’s death will happen in the ITV soap next week with Billy racing to be by his side

Coronation Street’s Billy Mayhew risks not being able to say goodbye to his husband Paul Foreman as he doesn’t know he’s in his ‘final moments’. It’s been confirmed that Paul’s death will happen in the ITV soap next week, 17 months after being diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease.

The former builder was told had had the life-shortening disease, in which messages from the motor neurones gradually stop reaching the muscles, in April 2023, shortly after being knocked over by Carla Connor in an Underworld van.

Corrie fans have since watched, often with tears in their eyes, as Paul’s condition gradually deteriorates, with no cure for MND, which kills a third o people within a year and more than half within two years of diagnosis.

It’s now been confirmed that next week in Corrie, Paul will tragically die. Spoilers have revealed that whilst complaining of his hangover, Billy realises he’s lost his phone and is thrown into panic as it contains all of his photos and memories. As he sets off to retrace his steps, Summer Spellman and Bernie Winter are horrified to discover Paul unresponsive on the sofa, struggling to breathe.

Summer calls an ambulance but realising that Billy has left Paul at the worst possible time, with no way of contacting him, Bernie and Summer do everything they can to keep Paul alive. With the odds against him, will Billy make it in time to say his final goodbye to Paul?

Speaking about Billy having his arm twisted to go out for a drink in the first place, Daniel told the Manchester Evening News and other press: “He doesn’t want to go at all. He’s been at home with Paul now for months and Billy’s a control freak so if he can’t see what’s happening, he’s constantly worrying about what could be happening…”

Speaking of filming the last scenes before Paul’s passing, the soap star shared: “We all know what it’s like to lose your phone, especially now everything is on the things. It wasn’t so bad in the days of a Nokia 3310 when all you got was texts…

“Now all your cards or on them and it’s bad enough then but if your husband’s dying and you’ve not paid for back-up [for memories such as photos]… The similarities between Billy and myself are quite unbelievable. I can’t work technology. I hate it…

“But the panic… Obviously he doesn’t realise when he rushes to give Paul a kiss on the forehead and says, ‘See you in a bit’, that that’s the last time he’s going to see him.”

He added, describing the moment Billy is informed he needs to get to the hospital to Paul: “He doesn’t really know the seriousness of it because he’s not been involved in any of that [Paul taking a turn for the worse]. He knows something’s happened but he doesn’t know he’s literally in his final moments.”

Suggest it would be Billy’s ‘worst nightmare’ not to get to the hospital in time, Daniel said: “Of course. Of course because he’s promised Paul that he’ll be there in his last moment… Even though everybody else had said to him, ‘Go out for a drink’, it’s not just that he wouldn’t be there at the end either. “

It would be that he spent Paul’s last night on earth p***ed up in a bar somewhere whereas he could have been at home, snuggling up to him, falling asleep next to him and waking up next to him. There’s all of those other bits in between.”