As viewers of the ITV soap now know, Shona Platt is keeping a huge secret from her husband David Platt about Kit Green

Coronation Street star Julia Goulding has revealed that she found out about her character’s cheating twist in a text from her co-star. As viewers of the ITV soap now know, Shona Platt is keeping a huge secret from her husband David Platt.

Trouble for the couple was on the horizon as soon as David, played by Jack P Shepherd, started sneaking around 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.

Fans have since seen, after David went to visit Clayton, who was apologetic for everthing he had done before David told him Shona wants nothing to do with him, Clayton attempted to take his own life and has since been in hospital.

David then continued to hide any knowledge if Clayton getting in touch while Shona despaired when her son refused to see her. But David’s lie was finally exposed by his stepson Max Turner during last 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 wasn’t until the end of Friday night’s (December 6) trip to the cobbles that it was revealed that Shona had infact slept with Kit, having taken the morning after pill earlier, which was found by her husband, who accused her of sleeping with Adam Barlow after she crashed at his following her liason with Kit.

Sharing how she found out about her character’s infidelity, Julia told the Manchester Evening News: “It was actually Jack who told me about it. He text me saying, ‘You cheat on me!” And I was like, ‘Oh no, who with?’ And he said, ‘I’ll give you a clue, he’s massive!’ I was like, ‘George? Is it George?’ Then he said it was you (Jacob), and I was like, ‘Oh ok, that’s not too bad then!'”

She joked: “Then I found out you don’t see anything!” before adding: “I never expected Shona to cheat on David, it’s been eight years, eight years they’ve been together she’s always been faithful and never looked at another man. But, she was pushed to it! I’m definitely on he side in all of this…”

Julia has previously revealed that she and Jack can have rows in the green room about their own characters being in the right with her now adding: “From his point of view I get it, but I’m not coming from his point of view I’m coming from mine and he’s gaslit her, he’s been using her brain injury against her! Also, sorry this is not the 1950s, a woman is allowed to make her own decisions, not have a husband hide her mail from her… So I definitely think he’s in the wrong.”

However, it won’t be a one-off as Julia reveals how Shona does go back for round two with Kit – but is she capable of an affair? “Well, I mean have you seen him!” she joked. “Would she have an affair? I suppose it depends how good that night was! I thin because it was a revenge, she’s obviously tempted because she goes back to the hotel room so, it must have been a really good night! She pops her anorak on and off she goes!

“David thinks she’s asleep on the sofa. They’ve had another barney, there’s another big push there, and they are not resolving this any time soon, there’s a lot of friction between the pair of them and she does go to the hotel room. She plucks up the courage and knocks on the door, but you’ll have to see what happens!”