Coronation Street icon says goodbye to co-star as his death is confirmed | Soaps

Coronation Street’s Channique Sterling-Brown shared an absolutely wonderful video to pay tribute to co-star Calum Lill.

Channique plays lawyer Dee-Dee Bailey in the series, who began a relationship with Calum’s character Joel Deering last year.

What followed was a storyline that saw Dee-Dee progress in her relationship with Joel, completely unaware that he was hiding his true self.

Earlier this year, it was revealed that Joel was responsible for the disappearance of Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton). It turns out that this lawyer is actually an evil, manipulative individual who preys on vulnerable young women.

After meeting Lauren last year, Joel paid her regular visits and gave her money to pay for food and water. As time went on, Joel manipulated Lauren into having sex with him as a form of retribution.

Once Dee-Dee discovered the real Joel Deering, she was determined to destroy him and put him behind bars. That situation changed drastically a few days ago when Kit (Jacob Roberts) and DS Lisa Swain (Vicky Myers) found Joel’s car on a bridge along with a note, which suggested he had ended his life.

In yesterday’s episode, Joel’s body was discovered in a river by a group of boys. The body was taken for an autopsy, where Kit learned that Joel was dead before entering the water, that is, he had been murdered.

While the likes of Dee-Dee, Lauren, Ed Bailey (Trevor Michael Georges) and even DS Swain remain prime suspects in the investigation, Joel’s death means, of course, that we’ve said goodbye to Calum Lill.

For Channique Sterling-Brown, saying goodbye to someone she worked so closely with over the past year was difficult. Reminiscing on her Instagram, the star recently shared a beautiful video montage of her and Calum’s time together in Weatherfield.

With the video including clips of them walking to set and having fun backstage, the star wrote alongside:

‘Rest in peace Joel Deering. You were in a bad way, but you came in the form of one of my best friends and for that I am so grateful. A year of mischief, endless beers, rehearsing just to distract myself and you carrying all my things.

She added: “We got grumpy, we got dizzy, we cried (okay, I cried), but most of all we laughed. Thanks for the best year, Cal, I wouldn’t want to tell DeeDee and Joel’s story with anyone else. Okay, enough being cool, we can’t allow that head of yours to get any bigger😒

‘Finished and out x’.

In the comments, Calum replied: ‘Maaaate 🥺🥺🥺 that pissed me off! So many good memories 💜 I’m going to miss you so much… I’m even going to miss having to carry your things everywhere.’

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