Coronation Street's Paula Lane excited about Kylie return

While the actress has been off having her first child, Kylie’s absence has been explained by her falling back into a drug habit and abandoning husband David (Jack P Shepherd) with their baby daughter Lily and her son Max.

David has been getting hassle from Max’s biological father Callum Logan (Sean Ward) while Kylie has been gone and, according to the Radio Times, Paula said: “I have just read some scripts and I gasped all the way through – I won’t go into it too much, but there’s a game to be played. It’s very exciting. Kylie starts playing Callum at his own game because she is his weak spot.”

Paula added of Kylie’s return: “At first, David is relieved that she’s alive and well. But then the anger comes out. When Kylie points out that it was he who kicked her out, David argues that she shouldn’t have just disappeared in the way she did. He obviously still loves her, but he’s also really mad.

“She wants her family back. She tells David that she’s clean and that they can now make things right. But he tells her that they’ve gone past that point. It’s heartbreaking for her, really.”

Paula said of the problems with Callum: “As soon as she realises that he’s on the warpath, she starts to fight. Kylie’s thinking, ‘You’re not getting my children’. Kylie is not proud of herself for what happened, but Callum was the making of her drug addiction and she doesn’t want him anywhere near her or Max.”

The actress admitted that she was excited to come back to work: “Kylie and David are fabulous together. I couldn’t do this show without Jack and I wouldn’t want to. So that’s what made the transition of coming back to work so easy because I knew I was coming back to that family. I kind of felt like I was leaving family to come back to family. It sounds a bit corny but it’s true.”