Tonight's episode of Coronation Street is EXPLOSIVE. Here star Pauline McLynn, who plays Maggie Driscoll, spills secrets from the set - and tells of playing an "old crone" on Father Ted in her 20s

Corrie fans gasped in horror as they saw The Rovers’ landlady Maggie Driscoll watch her husband tumble down the stairs to his death moments after having a blazing row. But actress Pauline McLynn - best known for playing housekeeper Mrs Doyle in Father Ted - doesn’t care if the flashback scenes make her a hate figure with fans. “Even if people think there’s terrible villainy afoot, we all love a villain, don’t we?” she reasons. “One of the most attractive characters in the whole of entertainment is Hannibal Lecter. Just saying!

“I’m not suggesting that Maggie Driscoll is the Hannibal Lecter of

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