With bags packed, Leanne could say her goodbyes to those closest to her in Weatherfield and her last one could be with Nick. As she prepares to get in the taxi, Nick could thank her for making such a sacrifice to allow him and Sam to rebuild their life without Natasha. However, having not been killed off, there would be every chance Leanne could return once she knows the young schoolboy has processed everything he needs to go through.
But would she return with a new lover on her arm following her split from Nick or would she have stayed loyal to the love of her life? Ahead of next week's emotional episodes, the actor who plays Nick, Ben, has spoken out on what the future holds for his character and his family. Ben added: "Maybe it would be nice to see them have an easier time of it for a while. I would love them to be a family.
Could this be an indication things aren't going to be happy ever after for the beloved couple and a split could be on the cards in the future? Some time apart from Leanne could do Nick some good as Natasha's death has brought back a lot of unsettling memories for the father of one about his own loss.
But Nick has not had the first ten years. He has suddenly got the entire responsibility for Sam and the enormity has not quite hit him. Will Nick ever be the same person again as he tries to juggle a new life with the memories of his past and a split from Leanne?
Leanne was pleased to receive her decree absolute but also felt depressed by her failed marriage and went on to become addicted to cocaine, after being supplied some by drug dealer Jez Quigley. Leanne ended up deeply in debt to Jez and upon occasion was forced to sleep with him. She owed him money and became desperate. She was going to allow him to rob the Rovers on New Year's Day , but at the last minute backed out and landed herself in hospital after a fight with one of Jez's thugs.
Leanne was hailed a hero for trying to fight off the thugs but felt ashamed knowing the truth and was later humiliated when her drug secret was exposed in the Rovers by Amy Goskirke who she had considered a friend. Jez continued to pester Leanne over the following months, leaving her scared. After being found not guilty of murdering Tony Horrocks in court, Jez sent flowers and a necklace to Leanne and then had her picked up off the street and brought to his flat where he professed his love for her.
Knowing Jez to be capable of extreme violence, she left Weatherfield for Amsterdam with her friend Mark Redman later in the year to escape the gangster's clutches. In June , Les discovered Leanne dressed as a belly dancer in a back street local bar, serving beer.
She returned to the Street and moved back in with Janice. She quickly caused trouble for ex-husband Nick and his latest girlfriend, Maria Sutherland. She had heard about how Maria had betrayed Toyah by having a fling with John Arnley and decided to take revenge on both Maria and her former husband.
Eventually, Leanne's scheming paid off as Nick left Weatherfield without Maria. Not long after her return, Leanne started a relationship with Jamie Baldwin. Jamie's stepmother, Frankie Baldwin , hated Leanne, and several ferocious slanging matches ensued. Despite her feud with Frankie, Leanne and Jamie became engaged. However, Leanne began an affair with Jamie's dad, Danny Baldwin , which Frankie discovered after accepting a call from Danny on Leanne's phone.
When Jamie learned the truth, he was heartbroken and proceeded to call off the engagement. Leanne quit her job at Roy's Rolls as she was unable to continue working with Frankie and temporarily departed the Street to sort her life out. When she returned she found that Jamie was still not open to forgiving her. Leanne and Danny eventually accepted that their respective relationships were over and consequently decided to reunite. When Danny's father, Mike Baldwin , began to suffer from mental illness, Leanne and Danny were the ones who cared for him, which Leanne found difficult.
The couples main priority however, was getting their hands on Mike's estate. Shortly before Mike's death, Danny had managed to manipulate Mike into making a will giving it all to him, and cutting out his other sons, Mark and Adam Barlow.
Following Mike's death, Leanne discovered a will that post-dated this one and in it, Mike left Adam his fair share. Despite becoming engaged to Leanne, Danny Baldwin truly loved former wife Frankie and ended his relationship with Leanne in a bid for reconciliation.
Leanne was devastated and took revenge on Danny by blackmailing him with Mike's latest will. Leanne then double-crossed her ex by giving Mike's second will to Adam, even after Danny gave her the cash which she demanded. Having totally wrecked Danny's life, Leanne then made her exit to Spain.
Leanne returned in March , harbouring the secret that she was now working as an escort. Janice was horrified to discover the truth and made her disapproval very clear.
When Leanne began dating Liam Connor , Janice made her realise that she had to choose between Liam and prostitution. Initially, Leanne chose escorting, but later decided that she should allow her heart to rule her head and gave it up for him. In the latter days of her career as a prostitute, Leanne found herself a new client - Liam's brother Paul Connor.
Leanne went into business with Paul's wife, Carla. They decided to buy and run Italian restaurant Valandro's together. In order to gather up the cash to make the purchase, Leanne made a brief return to her work as a prostitute.
This business deal would ultimately lead to Leanne's exposure, as Carla came across one of her clients who told her the truth. Carla was shocked and decided to abandon their business arrangement. When Carla ended her marriage to Paul after finding out about his visits to escorts, he blamed Leanne and attempted revenge. He lured her to a car park and bundled her into the boot of his car, intending to drive to Liam and inform him of the truth.
However, a horrific car crash took place during the journey. Leanne was hospitalised but survived. Paul, on the other hand, did not pull through and died shortly after the accident. Leanne decided to go ahead with opening the restaurant herself. She took on Paul Clayton as chef at the restaurant and began to feel hope when trade improved.
Paul eventually invested money in the restaurant, acquiring a share of the business. She then began dating bookmaker Dan Mason , by which time the restaurant was starting to show signs of failure. It was Dan who suggested torching Valandro's for the insurance money. Leanne manipulated Paul into carrying this out for her, offering the promise of a relationship between the two of them.
Paul agreed and carried out the arson attack, but was disappointed to realise Leanne had only been using him. He attempted to take revenge on her by confessing his crime to the police, as well as implicating her. However, Dan and Leanne provided alibis for one another on the night of the fire so they got away with the crime.
Realising that he alone was going to be sent down, Paul subsequently fled the country to avoid prosecution. Leanne subsequently got a job working in the bookies with Dan and his father. She then returned to her old position behind the bar at the Rovers as she was not making enough money at the bookies. Leanne convinced her stepmother that she should not tell the other girls about it and keep the winnings for themselves.
To claim the money they had to set up a bogus bank account under the name of Rosie Webster. They were both thrilled when the cash was lodged to the account and made up a cover story that an uncle of Janice's had died and had left them a sum of money in his will. In the meantime however, Rosie had vanished and the police could see that money was being withdrawn from the account.
Unfortunately for Leanne, Dan found out about the scam after Janice was arrested following her admission of guilt and their relationship subsequently ended.
Peter was battling an addiction to alcohol however and this threatened his relationship with Leanne. In December , a drunken Peter went to kiss Leanne, and though she rejected him, he grabbed her. In self-defence, Leanne pushed him and he fell into the decorated Christmas tree resulting in Simon waking up and Leanne walking out.
However, she later forgave him when he promised to give up the booze and the pair began a relationship. Early in , Peter was struggling to stay off alcohol and entered a rehabilitation programme with Leanne's support.
In his absence, she took over running the bookies. Upon his return in March , Leanne discovered he had cheated on her while he was away. Brokenhearted, she subsequently moved to Leeds to take up a job offer managing a restaurant for a friend.
Several months later, Peter headed out to Leeds and asked Leanne to give him another chance; she returned to Coronation Street the day after, whereupon they resumed their relationship. Later Leanne and Peter decide to open a bar together in the joinery premises under the viaduct at the end of Coronation Street. Ken was dead set against the plan, but Peter found investment in Simon's maternal grandfather George Wilson , who was attempting to build a relationship with Simon.
As work began on the bar, Peter's drink problem returned. George tried to use the alcoholism against Peter to get custody of Simon for himself. Despite his personal problems, Peter's relationship with Leanne survived and they became engaged. When Leanne's ex-husband Nick moved back to the Street, he decided to use the empty premises in Viaduct Street to open his own bar, The Joinery. Peter encouraged Leanne to take up his offer of a Manager role. Nick begged Leanne not to go through with the wedding as he still loved her.
Leanne chose to go ahead with the wedding and call off the affair. At Peter's stag party in The Joinery on 6th December , a massive gas explosion ripped through the premises, damaging the viaduct and causing a tram to derail and crash into Coronation Street. Peter was gravely injured and trapped with Nick and Ashley Peacock. Peter was eventually rescued from the wreckage and taken to hospital with Leanne by his side. Believing he was close to death, Peter married Leanne that night from his hospital bed.
Peter survived, but his injuries meant that he would have to learn to walk again. On Christmas Day, Peter announced in the Rovers that he intended to be walking by 14th February when he planned to give Leanne the wedding that she deserved. Encouraged by a manipulative Nick, Peter began secretly drinking again. A week before Leanne and Peter renewed their vows, her affair with Nick came to the knowledge of Tracy Barlow , who eventually told Peter. At the blessing, Peter exposed the affair in front of the whole congregation and said he wanted a divorce.
Thinking she'd lost Peter forever, Leanne decided to leave Weatherfield for London , but after Ken convinced Peter that Leanne was the best thing that had happened to him and Simon, he went to try and stop Leanne from leaving.
They decided to give their relationship another go. In mid- Stella Price and her daughter Eva moved to Weatherfield, as Stella had recently become landlady of the Rovers. When Stella met Leanne she realised that Leanne was her estranged biological daughter, born when Stella had been in a teenage relationship with Les Battersby. During Leanne's 30th birthday party, Stella confessed to Leanne that she was her mother, also revealing that Eva was her half-sister. Leanne rejected Stella, believing that she had abandoned her but slowly made amends and came to accept her and Eva as family.
In July Leanne became pregnant with Peter's child but soon afterwards miscarried after falling down a flight of stairs. Although they tried for another child, she learned she was unlikely to get pregnant again as one of her Fallopian tubes became blocked after the miscarriage.
That year, Peter had started an affair with Carla Connor. Leanne remained oblivious until Frank Foster 's rape trial in January , when Peter admitted to the affair. Leanne then ran off to the flat to pack her bags.
She and Peter had a massive row causing her to leave Weatherfield. It was only her concern for Simon that caused her to return and fight for custody. Peter refused to allow Leanne to spend any time with Simon, but when Simon became ill after drinking a bottle of wine, it became clear that Simon wanted to move in with Leanne. Peter was forced to relent and let him live with her. In June , Leanne got back with Nick while pursuing a divorce from Peter, which came through that November.
Within a few days, Eva and Kylie Platt plotted against Leanne and told Nick to propose as Leanne would love it, knowing that she would react badly to the idea. Their plan worked at first and the couple split up after the failed proposal, but Leanne soon realised that she loved Nick and proposed to him in the Rovers. Leanne and Nick got engaged and Nick booked the wedding for Christmas Day. On the morning of the wedding, Leanne visited Peter and said that she would give their relationship another go, however Peter's girlfriend Carla reappeared unannounced and Leanne decided to marry Nick after all.
At the ceremony Eva revealed the truth about why Leanne was late, Nick cancelled the wedding and they split up. Following a confrontation with Stella, Leanne decided to leave Weatherfield for good. The next day she told Nick that she was leaving and clear that he still had feelings for her, he went to the Rovers to talk to Leanne and begged her not to go. The pair later announced the wedding was back on and they were successfully re-married on 11th January In August of that year, the bistro van - with Nick and David inside - was hit by a lorry, and Nick was comatose for nearly two months.
The brothers had been arguing about Nick's one-night-stand with David's wife Kylie, and the uncertainty regarding the parentage of Kylie's daughter Lily , all of which Leanne was completely unaware. Nick eventually recovered and went back home with Leanne, by which point a DNA test had confirmed that David was Lily's father.
During Lily's christening in October , the truth about Nick and Kylie's one-night stand emerged. Leanne broke up with Nick after hearing the news but they reconciled after a few weeks. Nick's brain injury caused him to experience mood swings, leading him to shout at Simon and hit Leanne. Leanne stood by Nick, but he himself ended their relationship in January so that he wouldn't be able to hurt them.
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