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Coronation Street icon Sally Dynevor reacts to surprise Gogglebox appearance following ghostly attack on Lucy Parkinson

The scene aired on 27 October.

Published: Friday, 13 November 2026 at 10:23 am

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Sally Dynevor and Coronation Street co-star Sally Carman-Duttine have reacted with great surprise over the viewer reaction to a recent spooky scene.

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During the ITV soap's Halloween special – which aired last month – Dynevor's character Sally Metcalfe was panicked to hear that there had been a riot at Mick Michaelis's (Joe Layton) prison.

She was fearful that he'd managed to escape, and would return to find his daughters Joanie (Savanna Pennington) and Shanice (Molly Kilduff). Husband Tim (Joe Duttine) tried to reassure her, though left alone in the house, she grew paranoid.

While nosying at a group of teenagers outside the house, someone wearing a ghostly sheet over their head suddenly appeared at the window and Sally slammed the curtains closed. She then received a couple of silent calls on the landline, and despite DS Lisa Connor-Swain's (Vicky Myers) assurance that the riot was under control, Sally was still terrified.

Suddenly, there was a power cut. When calling Tim to ask him to return home, the 'ghost' appeared in front of Sally – and she reacted by smashing a vase over their head.

Carla and Lisa comfort a shaken Sally in a scene from Coronation Street

Sally Dynevor as Sally Metcalfe with Alison King and Vicky Myers as Carla and Lisa Connor-Swain. ITV

It then transpired that she'd attacked her other foster daughter, troubled Lucy Parkinson (Anya Dewin). The teenager reported Sally to social services and was sent to a respite home, while Lucy's maternal grandmother Christina Boyd (Amy Robbins) criticised her friend's care.

Unsurprisingly, the bizarre scenario was picked up in that week's episode of Gogglebox on Channel 4.

Siblings Pete and Sophie from Blackpool reacted by saying: "Halloween and a load of power cuts. That's enough to put the willies up you isn't it?"

Izzy from Leeds laughed to her sister: "Halloween on Corrie... something dodgy is gonna go on here Ellie, I'm telling you."

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Max from North London told mum Sally: "I think [Sally] will get murdered."

During the initial reaction to the ghost, a number of the telly watchers leapt out of their chairs.

The various groups then found much hilarity in the fact Sally had whacked Lucy, with Ellie commenting: "Lucy was asking for it there, she snuck up on her."

While viewing a scene where Lucy said that Sally was "just like her mum", Baasit from Derby joked to his dad and brother: "I don't think your mum would confuse you for a ghost and hit you over the head with a vase. That's a very specific thing that Sally did."

Sophie from Gogglebox sat back in a large mustard yellow chair, laughing with her bed thrown back as she points out her arm to turn on the TV. Pete is sat next to her, looking at her with a smile while holding a mug and resting it on his knee.

The Goggleboxers found much hilarity in the episode. Channel 4

Pete described it as "typical Sally", and then Sophie remarked: "Listen you little witch, I've smashed my good vase from Home Bargains because of you d***ing around in a bedsheet."

Talking about the scene at a recent Corrie press event, Carman-Duttine, who plays Abi Webster, laughed to Radio Times: "Look, we've all been there. They're making a right old fuss about that, aren't they?"

Dynevor giggled: "I know, aren't they? I mean, you know. I love it. It was incredible. It's so funny how some scenes get picked up and you have no idea when you're filming.

"Cause it went on Gogglebox. I was like 'I love that ... that's amazing.'"

Carman-Duttine chimed in saying: "It's nuts, because you've got no idea."

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Michael Adams is the Soaps Editor at Radio Times, covering all of the hot gossip and spoilers from Weatherfield to Walford, Emmerdale to Hollyoaks and everywhere in-between. He joined the team from Metro, where he spent two years as a Soaps Reporter and previously worked on the sets of both Coronation Street and Emmerdale.

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