Coronation Street viewers have criticised the show for the ‘insensitive’ choice of background music that accompanied part of Monday night’s episode.
Michelle Connor – played by Kym Marsh – is set to suffer a stillbirth on Wednesday night’s episode, and had to leave Leanne Tillsley’s baby shower for the hospital during Monday’s show.
In one of the following scenes, viewers noticed that the jukebox in the Rovers Return – which was playing host to the baby shower – was playing the Bay City Rollers hit, ‘Bye Bye Baby’.
Plenty made their feelings known on Twitter in the moments after.
https://twitter.com/jj_mclaughlin/status/818556537505509377
https://twitter.com/MyNameIsntIan/status/818556030963609601
#corrie playing bye bye baby while Michelle is having a miscarriage? Distasteful
— kyra (Taylor's Version) (@_lilkyra) January 9, 2017
https://twitter.com/hayley_mia18/status/818555736598921217
Omg why are they playing Bye Bye Baby on Corrie when someone is having a miscarriage 😳
— sophie (@sophielrosee) January 9, 2017
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Already an incredibly emotional storyline, it has been made all the more poignant after Kym lost her son Archie after he was born prematurely in 2009.
Explaining that she wanted to raise awareness of something which affects thousands of women on an annual basis, Kym admitted that filming the scenes had been incredibly difficult.
“I have had to go to some very dark places while filming, but my family, friends and colleagues have been incredible,” she is quoted as saying in the Mirror.
“Losing a child is something that never leaves you so to revisit those feelings was challenging.
“Coronation Street ensured that I had a counsellor to go to after filming the scenes, but for me the best tonic after a hugely emotional day was to go home to my kids and be reminded of how lucky I am to have them.”
