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01st Sep 2016

Coronation Street went all Inception this week and nothing makes sense anymore

Wrap your heads around this

Declan Cashin

Breaking news: Corrie has gone meta.

Eagle-eyed soap fans were quick to spot a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it telly crossover moment on last night’s episode of Coronation Street.

In one scene, the character of Liz McDonald is seen sitting back watching TV – while chugging a glass of red wine, as you do in the middle of a weekday – and the programme she’s watching is daytime panel show Loose Women.

Corrie and Loose Women are both ITV shows, which is strange enough already. But it gets even weirder.

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Beverley Callard, the actress who plays Liz, has herself been a guest panellist on Loose Women in the past.

Let’s just take a second to grasp the Inception-like weirdness of that.

This intrusion of our real world into Corrie’s fictional one can set the mind off on a real trip: for instance, does this mean Liz also watches other soaps, like EastEnders? Is there even a way, in this mad topsy turvy universe, that she watches Coronation Street?

Also, Loose panellist Sherrie Hewson was once a Corrie regular herself, playing Maureen Webster.

Which means Liz would have known Maureen: does Liz then recognise Sherri on Loose Women?

Ow, my head.

Or maybe it’s just a new ITV approach to cross-promote shows? Maybe Rita will be shown watching The X Factor next?

The Loose Women loved the joke at any rate, as they would.

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