List of Coronation Street characters (2018)
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Coronation Street is a British soap opera first broadcast on 9 December 1960. The following is a list of characters introduced in 2018, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by series producer Kate Oates or her successor, Iain MacLeod. The first character to be introduced is Josh Tucker (Ryan Clayton), the rapist of David Platt (Jack P. Shepherd), in January. Gail Rodwell's (Helen Worth) clairvoyant Rosemary Piper (Sophie Thompson), Liz McDonald's (Beverley Callard) new love interest Mike Thornberry (Louis Emerick), school bully Tyler Jefferies (Will Barnett) and Geoff Metcalfe (Ian Bartholomew), Tim Metcalfe's (Joe Duttine) father, joined the show in March. April saw Emma Brooker (Alexandra Mardell), a new love interest for David, and Kayla Clifton (Mollie Winnard), a character introduced to continue Bethany Platt's (Lucy Fallon) sexual exploitation storyline, make their first appearances, while the year's first birth, Susie Price, daughter of Aidan Connor (Shayne Ward) and Eva Price (Catherine Tyldesley), also took place this month. Paul Foreman (Peter Ash) made his first appearance in May for a guest stint, before returning to the serial regularly in January 2019. Mr Fitzgerald (Adam Weafer) appeared in July. Sally Metcalfe's (Sally Dynevor) lawyer Paula Martin (Stirling Gallacher) joined the cast in August, while Liz and Jim McDonald's (Charles Lawson) fraudulent "daughter" Hannah Gilmore (Hannah Ellis Ryan), Tyrone Dobbs' (Alan Halsall) long-lost grandmother Evelyn Plummer (Maureen Lipman) and Tyler's mother Vicky Jefferies (Kerri Quinn) were introduced in September. Elsa Tilsley (Kelly Harrison), Nick Tilsley's (Ben Price) secret wife, joined the cast in November.