Coronation Street Christmas and New Year spoilers - with multiple returns, big exits and exciting new faces

Laura Anderson has been soaking up the rays with her newborn baby, Bonnie Rose, whom she welcomed to the world back in September. The mother and daughter jetted off to Dubai to enjoy their first holiday together.

Coronation Street fans are shouting at their TV screens at the moment - in the hope Daniel Osbourne will listen to their cries that he's being cheated on. Viewers of the ITV soap saw the teacher close to revealing the truth about fiancée Daisy Midgeley and Ryan Connor.

For almost a quarter of a century, Coronation Street star Tina O’Brien has become a much loved staple of our weekly soap schedules as Sarah Platt. Whether it was tackling the hard hitting issue of teenage pregnancy, through to defending her on-screen daughter after she was a victim of abuse, Sarah has been at the heart of some of the most intense and gripping storylines over the years.

Coronation Street star Sally Carman-Duttine appears to have hinted she had to 'compromise' with her co-star husband as she started to get into the Christmas spirit early. The actress is clearly eagerly awaiting the upcoming season after previously being seen drinking out of a festive-themed mug.

Celtic goalkeeper Scott Bain and his fiancée Robyn Crumlish announced the arrival of their baby boy with a sweet snap on social media.

Coronation Street Alan Halsall has been flooded with supportive well-wishes from his co-stars and fans as he revealed he's undergone surgery which looks set to see him out of action for months. The actor took to social media to share a picture of himself after going under the knife to fix an ACL injury.

Coronation Street duo Jake and Oscar Parry are still working in TV, two decades since their roles as the baby version of Simon Barlow.The twin brothers portrayed Peter Barlow's newborn child from July 2003 to November that same year, although for a couple of episodes broadcast in the September, tiny Simon was played by Daniel Whelan. Skip 20 years, though, and the Parrys now appear in one of the amusingly dramatic Dominos adverts where loved ones are torn apart by their desperation for pizza.

It’s not just about those repeats of A Christmas Story on TNT anymore.

Coronation Street star Daniel Brocklebank has delighted his co-stars and fans as he showed off the 'new addition' to his home. The actor, known for playing Billy Mayhew, took to social media with a beaming snap in which he could be seen on his kitchen.

Coronation Street star Todd Boyce has stunned fans with a new look after his dramatic exit from the ITV soap. The 62 year old actor played dastardly serial killer Stephen Reid on the cobbles but his reign of terror finally came to a grisly end during Super Soap Week last month. Fans were left gobsmacked as the evil villain turned on his own family in a bid to flee the country before being mown down and killed by Peter Barlow in his car.

Tom Sandoval isn’t ready for BravoCon this weekend!

Coronation Street star Todd Boyce has been told 'I wouldn't have recognised you' after showing off a surprise new look weeks after his shock soap exit. The actor recently left the cobbles as businessman-turned-serial killer Stephen Reid.

Greece’s Thessaloniki International Film Festival returns this evening for its 64th edition with a screening of The Pot-au-Feu (The Taste of Things), the latest film by French-Vietnamese director Trần Anh Hùng. 

Gregg Goldstein It seems you can’t aim a camera in New York or New Jersey these days without seeing a studio space that’s brand new, under construction or in the works. Did you miss the Oct. 24 groundbreaking ceremony for the $350 million Sunset Pier 94 Studios, Manhattan’s first purpose-built studio campus with six soundstages totaling 85,000 square feet, opening in midtown in late 2025? No worries — there’s another on Nov.

Carla Connor is back next week but her plan to fix matters at Underworld backfires. After her trip to Spain to try and save a deal following Stephen Reid's antics at the factory, Carla arrives home.

Coronation Street has confirmed the future of the Rovers Return revealing that it will reopen before the year is out - but with a 'ticking time bomb' buried beneath its grand return. Fans have been left wondering what was happening with the local watering hole after Jenny Connor was forced to sell.

Coronation Street has confirmed what we definitely won't see from Peter Barlow ahead of his exit from Weatherfield. Actor Chris Gascoyne briefly revealed in July that he will be leaving the role after becoming the seventh actor to play Ken Barlow's son in 2000.

New picture appears to show how Peter Barlow will leave Weatherfield this Christmas. It comes after Chris Gascoyne confirmed he'd be leaving Coronation Street after an on-off appearance over 23 years.

Manchester City have learned when they will play their Premier League fixtures over the Christmas and New Year period.

EXCLUSIVE: Celebrated Oregon studio Laika has brought in new talent, hiring director Pete Candeland, along with Victor Maldonado & Alfredo Torres, the Annie Award-winning duo together known as Headless, to develop new animated features. The appointments are effective immediately, though there’s no word yet on what the projects are.