CORONATION Street fans have ‘worked out’ Mick Michaelis‘ shock connection to a Weatherfield resident.
Mick – played by former Casualty actor Joe Layton – debuted in the ITV soap earlier this month.
He arrived in Weatherfield alongside wife Lou (Farrel Hegarty) as the latest “nightmare neighbours“.
The couple’s early scenes see them establish a connection with Chesney Brown (Sam Aston).
While Jodie Prenger – aka Glenda Shuttleworth – told The Sun how her character will “go to war” with the duo.
Bosses had also hinted Mick and Lou have a mysterious link to detective Kit Green (Jacob Roberts).
New executive producer Kate Brooks told The Sun: “We’ve got some great characters coming in.
“They are Mick and Lou. They’re coming to live at the back of Chesney, on Maudsley Street, across the ginnell.
“They are livewires, they are ruffians, they are going to cause a lot of damage and a lot of chaos.
“There is a link to Chesney initially, but they are coming to stir up a lot of trouble, and open up the floodgates and unpack the past of one of our big characters, which is Kit.
“So, really interesting, wonderful and dynamic stuff that’s going to be fantastic. We’re really excited, they come in with oodles of drama.
“They are shaking things up. They’re neighbours from hell. They’re overfamiliar, likeable and they’ve got kids.”
Fans have been eagerly speculating over what this connection could be.
Some suggested Mick bears a resemblance to Kit’s late half-brother Paul Foreman (Peter Ash).
Kit and Paul didn’t grow up together – as their mother Bernie (Jane Hazlegrove) gave Kit up for adoption as a baby.
They met as adults last year and spent a few months getting to know each other.
Tragically, Paul died in heartbreaking scenes after a battle with motor neurone disease.
One Corrie fan wrote on social media: “They might go down the route of Mick and Kit knowing each other through Kit’s corrupt cop style, which is another storyline that is booooring and already ongoing with Kit’s involvement with Harvey’s gang.
History of the Coronation Street set
By Jake Penkethman, TV Reporter
1960-1968 – Whilst the Coronation Street set remained on Quay Street for 53 years, it actually had three separate studio sites. The first was an entirely indoor wooden set which was used for the first eight years of filming. This encompassed a replica of the Street built entirely indoors. The set was known to be awkward for actors to use and the houses brought to three quarter scale.
1968-1982 – In 1968, the addition of an outdoor set was created to adjoin the existing indoor set which was still used for filming right up until 1982. The set was used only when required with many of the show’s cast reportedly hating it and describing it as ‘the coldest place on Earth’.
1982-2013 – A brand new set was officially constructed in 1982 and was almost built fully to scale but still only permitted for one car to drive down the cobbled street. The house were purpose-built using reclaimed Salford brick in order to give it the most authentic feel possible. During these years, some of the show’s buildings were adapted to allow for both interior and exterior filming at the same time. These locations included Elliott’s Butchers, Barlow’s Buys, Prima Doner and Webster’s Autos. The final scenes to be recorded on this site occurred in December 2013. By early 2014, it began operating as a tourist attraction for around two years before ultimately being demolished and re-purposed in 2017.
2014-present – In early 2014, the show’s set moved to the TV hub of the North – MediaCityUK in nearby Salford Quays. It is now located a stone’s throw from major TV studio Dock 10 as well as the BBC’s base in the North – home to Blue Peter, Newsround, BBC Breakfast and BBC Sport. The new set was even bigger and built to 9/10 the scale of a real street and allowed for two card to be travelling down the road at opposite sides for the very first time. The site has even undergone major expansions during its 10 years. Just four years after opening in 2018, a brand new set extension was unveiled which introduced viewers to Victoria Gardens for the first time in its history. The Weatherfield North tram stop also became visible as did a series of shops which became used as part of product placement advertising deals. Brands to have been seen on the Street so far include a Co-Op, a Costa Coffee and a branch of Hay’s Travel. Four years later in 2022, another brand new set was unveiled, this time being the heavily mentioned Weatherfield Precinct. It became the first time in 62 years that the area had ever been seen on screens. It fearued a variety of shop fronts, a playground and a number of small flats which have begun to house more and more residents on the street in recent months.
“Or he could be yet another one of their siblings since people think he looks like Paul lol.”
Another added: “I feel like there’s more to them, didn’t Kate Brooks say something like they’ll ‘open the floodgates’ with Kit??
“And also that they’d bring chaos which they haven’t done too much of yet? I don’t get good vibes about Mick.”
Coronation Street continues on ITV1 and ITVX.
