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Karl plans to get hitched and hit the road with Stella straight away, John Michie has revealed.
John, who plays arsonist Karl, said: "Once Karl’s married Stella, then he can flee the Street with her in tow."
"He knows he’s on borrowed time and that he has a very limited amount of time for this plan to go ahead," added John.
"Karl’s got it into his mind that as long as he can get Stella out of Weatherfield, out of the UK, then he will be okay..."
"He borrows a bit of money off his friend and books two cheap flights to Spain for them post-wedding. Stella might think that he’s got them a nice hotel, but he hasn’t. Karl’s only concern is getting them the hell out of Weatherfield."
As Craig revealed that he saw him leaving the Rovers on the night of the fire, Karl is desperate to ensure he does not share this incriminating evidence with anyone else.
"Karl’s doing a lot of ducking and diving on the run up to the wedding. He’s feeling extremely hopeful that everything’s going to run to plan, but at the same time he’s also very nervous about his efforts to ensure Craig keeps his mouth shut."
"I think Karl has the potential to ‘dispose’ of Craig if circumstances left him with little other choice."
"Craig is always on his mind at the minute and he can’t shake it off."
"I don’t think he’d be able to do something premeditated and calculated to him, but in the heat of the moment I think Karl has the potential to ‘dispose’ of Craig if circumstances left him with little other choice," said John.
And as Jason and Dev are beginning to unravel Karl's web of lies, noticing that his alibi for the night of the fire is flawed, will they manage to expose Karl as the killer before he leaves Weatherfield with Stella for good?
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Coronation Street actress Michelle Collins has revealed that she would consider a return to the ITV soap.
The 51-year-old actress, who plays Stella Price in the show, recently announced that she would be leaving next year.
However, speaking on This Morning today (September 6), Collins stated that she has asked bosses not to kill off her character in light of a possible return in the future.
She said: "I don't know [how I'm going], my exit storyline is eight months away, so they'll probably start planning that in October. I have asked them not to kill me off."
Collins added: "You can never say never, situations change and circumstances change."
The actress, who stars as the Rovers Return landlady, also revealed that she had said to herself upon joining the programme that she would only stay for three years.
"I'm leaving because by the time I do leave, which will be in April/May, I said I would probably stay for three years and my three years are up. It's gone so quickly, it's unbelievable," she added.
"It's been fantastic, but I want to pursue other things. But fundamentally I want to be a mum again. [Daughter] Maia has two years left at school, she's just gone into the sixth form and I just need to be around more for her. She's going to go to uni.
"I had time off for her GSCEs which was great, but next year she'll choose a uni, that kind of thing, and it's so important. It's only me so I need to be there, I'm a single parent."
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In other words.......if I can`t find anything else, I`ll come back until I`m bored again.
etc etc
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In other words.......if I can`t find anything else, I`ll come back until I`m bored again.
etc etc
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Please ITV do not listen to this woman. KILL her off and dont give her any excuse to come back
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Hallelujah, hope she takes her daughter with her,either way great news. Agree Alan ,the producers must ignore her wishes. a minor fatal accident ,done on the cheap will be fine .Doesn't even need to be televised, a casual announcement in t'rovers ,no problem.
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I like Stella as a character, but I agree Glen; Eva should go with her. I just don't think that there is any potential for her as a stand alone character, and she and Leanne have never been exactly close.
Her departure is in a way predictable, as Michelle previously stated that she had only joined the show for financial security so that her daughter could go to university. In the three years that she'll have been there by the time she leaves, she's definitely done that, even with the new fee structure.
The timing doesn't make much sense to me; I thought she'd have gone last year. With Michelle's last scenes airing next June, she probably isn't going to finish filming until March at the earliest, by which time her daughter will need to have decided on which course and universities to apply for. She'll be around for her daughter's revision and exam period, but after that she won't have long to spend with her before she goes off to university. A lot of it I thought also was the fact that she wanted to spend more time with her, as she doesn't get a lot of time with commuting from London to Manchester for filming. All in all, I can see her being interested in a return in little more than 6 months of finishing filming, so part of me is wondering why she didn't just take an extended absence like Charlie Brooks did from EastEnders for example.
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Coronation Street star Michelle Collins has said that her character Stella Price will struggle to cope following the revelation that her fiancé Karl Munro started the blaze at the Rovers Return.
As Stella finds herself at the centre of speculation next week following Karl's arrest, she goes into complete self-destruct mode and hits the bottle.
Collins said: "She's completely broken. Stella is quite a fragile thing - she may act the feisty landlady, but behind that she's delicate and vulnerable and this just completely knocks her for six.
"It's not just the fact that he was behind the fire that shakes her, but the extent to which he tried to pull the wool over her eyes once again and cover his tracks. Stella sees that behaviour as being calculated. Once again she has failed to detect his lies.
"She's absolutely devastated. She feels completely undone. This is beyond humiliation for her now. She never for one second imagined that Karl would be capable of causing this much devastation and the realisation is completely earth-shattering for her."
It is left to Dev to try and get through to Stella, telling her not to blame herself, but a drunk Stella ends up breaking down in front of him.
Collins said: "Stella feels so much to blame for what's happened and she knows she should have listened to Dev when he told her not to forgive Karl the first time round.
"Dev knows that Stella is blaming herself but he has had much longer to process the truth than she has. The pain on Stella's face is so visible to him.
"It is Dev who forces Stella to listen to him when she's in a drunken state and insists that she must not blame herself for what's happened in any way. She ends up breaking down on Dev, which leaves her feeling mortified when she sobers up."
Speaking about the future for Stella, Collins said: "At this stage, she can't see a way out. She's at her lowest ebb really, being eaten away by a whole host of emotions.
"Karl is in the walls of the Rovers and as long as she's there she can't see a way of escaping him.
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Coronation Street star Michelle Collins has said that her character Stella Price will struggle to cope following the revelation that her fiancé Karl Munro started the blaze at the Rovers Return.
As Stella finds herself at the centre of speculation next week following Karl's arrest, she goes into complete self-destruct mode and hits the bottle.
Collins said: "She's completely broken. Stella is quite a fragile thing - she may act the feisty landlady, but behind that she's delicate and vulnerable and this just completely knocks her for six.
"It's not just the fact that he was behind the fire that shakes her, but the extent to which he tried to pull the wool over her eyes once again and cover his tracks. Stella sees that behaviour as being calculated. Once again she has failed to detect his lies.
"She's absolutely devastated. She feels completely undone. This is beyond humiliation for her now. She never for one second imagined that Karl would be capable of causing this much devastation and the realisation is completely earth-shattering for her."
It is left to Dev to try and get through to Stella, telling her not to blame herself, but a drunk Stella ends up breaking down in front of him.
Collins said: "Stella feels so much to blame for what's happened and she knows she should have listened to Dev when he told her not to forgive Karl the first time round.
"Dev knows that Stella is blaming herself but he has had much longer to process the truth than she has. The pain on Stella's face is so visible to him.
"It is Dev who forces Stella to listen to him when she's in a drunken state and insists that she must not blame herself for what's happened in any way. She ends up breaking down on Dev, which leaves her feeling mortified when she sobers up."
Speaking about the future for Stella, Collins said: "At this stage, she can't see a way out. She's at her lowest ebb really, being eaten away by a whole host of emotions.
"Karl is in the walls of the Rovers and as long as she's there she can't see a way of escaping him.
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Coronation Street actor John Michie has praised the departure of his character Karl Munro from the show.
Last night, viewers saw Karl admit to setting fire to The Rovers Return in a bid to win back Stella Price, killing former lover Sunita Alahan and firefighter Toni Griffiths in the process.
After revealing all to his new wife Stella, she persuades him to come clean with the police and take his punishment.
In a final on-set interview with ITV, Michie said: "I thought it was a great ending. I thought it was really good that Stella convinced Karl to be the man that she once knew, and that he was to be honest with himself and admit he was wrong and admit that he had killed; to walk out with his hands up and say, 'Alright guy, I did it'.
"He kind of absolved himself, in as much as you can do having been the cause of two people's deaths."
Michie, who will soon join Holby City as a regular cast member, said that he had "loved" playing Karl, with his "many flaws".
He said: "He's addicted to gambling, he's got a bit of a drinking addiction as well - and he's also addicted to women. Those three things make a wonderful character to play, and I'll really miss getting inside the head of Karl Munro."
The 56-year-old also revealed his favourite scenes involved the dramatic destruction of the pub and the emotional aftermath of the hospital.
He explained: "One of the highlights was when Karl set fire to the Rovers, one of the most iconic pubs in Great Britain, even though it's fictious. I think all the hospital scenes as well, and Karl's duplicity was fabulous to play."
Commenting on Karl's future, Michie teased: "Is it the last we'll see of Karl? I don't think you can ever… I mean he's alive, he's inside, he's doing time. Who knows?"
Michie's co-star Michelle Collins recently revealed that she has asked that her character Stella Price is not killed off when she leaves the show in coming months.
