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Cheat Charlie's chilling bid to drown David in icy bath
CRAZED Charlie Stubbs tries to drown lovesick David Platt in the year's most chilling Coronation Street plot.
The sex-cheat builder tricks the terrified teenager into his mistress Maria's flat - and then repeatedly plunges his head into a bath full of ice cold water.
A hole was even cut in the side of the tub so actor Jack Shepherd's ordeal could be seen in full.
But 18-year-old Jack said of the scary scenes to be screened on Monday: "They were great to film."
He explained: "Charlie is asking David really stupid questions like, 'Who put the Ram in the Ramalamadingdong?' And when he can't answer, he holds him under.
"You really do sense that Charlie fully intends to drown him."
Besotted David, fuming at the affair between Charlie (Bill Ward) and Maria (Samia Smith), has vandalised the lying romeo's van.
Jack said: "David gets dunked time and again and you think it's over for him until Maria returns and screams at Charlie to stop."
An insider said: "It brings back David's nightmares about Richard Hillman's bid to drown the Platts. But it's leading up to the end of Charlie Stubbs."
From The Daily Mirror 25.10.06