Coronation Street Spoilers: Rita To Be Killed Off With Tumour?

Rita Tanner (Barbara Knox) has been on Coronation street for 53 years, she is truly an icon of the show. However, she is now rumoured to be leaving Corrie after more than half a century. Lately her memory has become forgetful which has sparked the theory that a terrible health scare is upcoming. The Sun has rumoured that this will be in the form of a brain tumour, a cancer that will kill off the show’s veteran.

The tumour is set to appear in October and will be a very emotional story line. We will see Rita go through a dramatic transformation. From strong independent woman to a vulnerable and scared old lady. A source revealed that “Rita is terrified that she could not know who she is, or recognise her friends.”

We’ve already seen the beginnings of this story line when Rita got Gemma (Dolly Rose Campbell) arrested over money she thought she had stolen. But in fact, Rita had forgotten where she had put it. Is this just the beginning of her downfall? Will Rita be hit with dementia?

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Barbara started Coronation street back in 1964, she appeared as Rita Littlewood. She then became Rita Fairclough and then most famously Rita Sullivan. Unbelievably when she first started her character she was a belly dancer in her youth! She is most famous for The Kabin, the news agents she works at.

Rita has been married to many men over the years, but the most tragic was Ted Sullivan in 1992, the pair were newlyweds for three months before he discovered a brain tumour and died. Which is why her current story line will be so painful for Rita, bringing up his tragic past. Rita is one of the show’s longest running characters and it will be sad to see her go.

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