Coronation Street fans gutted after DOUBLE exit which saw fan favourite wave goodbye to Weatherfield

Coronation Street fans were gutted on Friday night when the soap aired a double exit.

Fan favorite Evelyn Plummer left Weatherfield with drug-addicted daughter Cassie as she vowed to help her get clean amid her latest overdose.

The departure coincides with actress Maureen Lipman’s temporary departure from the show, after it was previously revealed she would be taking a month-long break to star in West End play Rose.

And as the soap caught up with real life, dramatic scenes showed the moment Evelyn decided to leave the streets in an effort to help her estranged daughter, played by Claire Sweeney.

Watching the emotional scenes unfold, viewers were quick to share their dismay at Evelyn’s departure, with many hoping she would return soon.

“#Corrie hope Evelyn isn’t gone long,” one person commented.

While a second declared, “Evelyn will be sorely missed.”

‘Dam, I’ll miss our Evelyn. Thanks for Cassie to the Steet boys, can’t wait for them to return,” a third fan shared.

‘Hope Evelyn and Cassie aren’t gone too long. Dame Maureen Lipman is even more brilliant than usual this week,” wrote a fourth.

“Please tell me Evelyn isn’t leaving. She’s the best character!!’ came the reply of a fifth.

With one more addition: “How long will Evelyn be gone, I miss her already…”

Cassie arrived in Weatherfield this week and soon learned that Tyrone (Alan Halsall) was her son, but her mother begged her to stay away after her latest heroin overdose.

Tyrone had grown up believing Jackie Dobbs, but found out in 2018 after her death that he was indeed adopted.

After he subsequently contacted his grandmother Evelyn, she told him that his biological mother Cassie was dead, as she had not trusted her daughter to raise her son – and Evelyn had taken the step at the time to leave him on a police station.

After seeing and ignoring a confused Cassie on the street, Everylin later received a call from the hospital where her daughter had been taken.

Viewers then learned that Evelyn had tried several times to help her daughter get clean, including last Christmas.

Evelyn was quick to scold her daughter for coming to the street, and was stunned to learn Cassie turned to drugs when she found out Tyrone was living with her.

When Everyn later came home, Tyrone told her that someone named ‘Cath’ had come to see her and was shocked to see Cassie grinning at her from the couch.

After brushing her off as an old neighbor’s friend, Evelyn got Tyrone out of the way.

But after a shivering Cassie, still struggling with drug withdrawal, said Tyrone had better believe she was dead, Evelyn made a huge decision.

Evelyn later announced that because she had no money for rehab, she had rented them a flat outside Weatherfield, where they would stay together until Cassie was sober.

She warned her daughter, “None of us leave the flat until you’re clean and ready to meet your son!”

The matriarch then told Tyrone that she had to go away for a while to help ‘Cath’ get a neighbor named James out of trouble.

As the mother and daughter made to leave the cobblestones, a grateful Cassie vowed to come clean and not let her mother down.

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