Lauren confronts Ryan in Coronation Street
Cait Fitton, who plays Lauren, has warned of dark scenes ahead for the character (Picture: ITV)

Coronation Street star Cait Fitton has hinted that Lauren Bolton might find herself in serious danger after being inspired by Ryan Connor’s (Ryan Prescott) use of paid subscription service O-Vidz.

Ryan, as fans will recall, signed up to the service to post naked torso images following the acid attack, using filters to prevent his subscribers from seeing his scars.

The young man subsequently received messages from one user in particular requesting that he drop his trousers and take nude images and, despite his reservations, he did just that.

But Ryan brought this chapter to an end after delivering a powerful speech on what happened to him at the STC, subsequently removing his filters and closing down his O-Vidz account.

Lauren, however, came to suspect that he and Daisy Midgeley (Charlotte Jordan) were secretly seeing one another and thus proceeded to blackmail them both, needing a serious amount of money for undisclosed reasons.

‘I think Lauren is very desperate and when you’re that desperate, you are constantly living in survival mode,’ actress Cait Fitton told Metro.co.uk. ‘Lauren is a survivor. I think being desperate can lead to negative consequences because you don’t think straight and you’re selfish.

Lauren in Coronation Street
Lauren turns her attention to O-Vidz (Picture: ITV)

‘Lauren will do what she wants to get what she wants because that’s what she’s been taught and the only way she knows to get by. She knows that Ryan really cares for Daisy and she plays on that.

‘Lauren and Daisy have no loyalties to each other and she understands that it’s the only way she’s going to get into Ryan’s head by threatening to bring Daisy into it. I’d like to think that she wouldn’t do it, but if it’s something that threatens her safety or the people that she cares about then sadly I think she would do it.’

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As for how this storyline plays out, we’ll just have to wait and see but what we can say is that Lauren’s desperation for cash might lead her to take a leaf out of Ryan’s book.

‘After living with Ryan and viewing him as a role model, O-Vidz might be a thing that Lauren tries next,’ commented Cait, teasing what’s to come.

‘Obviously while living together, she had conversations with Ryan about O-Vidz and saw how Ryan has gained some of his confidence back especially after how broken he was after the acid attack and I think she would like to try that for herself.

Lauren in Roy's cafe with Daisy in Coronation Street
Lauren has been blackmailing Daisy, who refuses to stand for it (Picture: ITV)

‘Even though she hasn’t got physical scarring, she definitely has internal scarring that she would like to mend and may see this as an opportunity to do so.

‘Now more than ever, Lauren needs to make as much money as she possibly can as she now sees herself as an adult, even though she’s only seventeen years old.

‘Lauren is no stranger to doing things in order to get money which we saw through her interaction with Roy so I don’t think Lauren will look at the downsides of O-Vidz, unfortunately.’

Coronation Street airs Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV1 and ITVX.

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