Aadi Alahan’s Coronation Street exit has been teased with dramatic scenes. The character has been a regular on the ITV soap since he was born on-screen alongside his twin sister Asha (Tanisha Gorey ) in 2006 but at the end of Friday night’s episode, it seemed to have become apparent just how he is set to wave goodbye to Weatherfield after nearly 20 years.

Viewers of the world’s longest-running soap will know that Aadi, who was played by Zennon Ditchett for a decade until Adam Hussain took over in 2019, has been embroiled in various conflicts over the last few months. Earlier this year, he was unintentionally responsible for Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton) becoming a victim of spiking when he threw a house party that went wrong, and, amid their budding romance, he has lied to her about the events of that fateful night.

It comes as Aadi was entrusted with the upkeep of his dad Dev’s corner shop when he took a break but he ran up debts of £6,000 and then staged a failed robbery with Brody Michaelis (Ryan Mulvey) to try to claim on the insurance. After all that failed, Aadi finally fessed up to Dev (Jimmi Harkishin), and his dad learned that his partner Bernie Winter (Jane Hazlegrove) had been in on the initial attempt to cover it all up as well, when she brought forward their wedding in the hopes of getting a rich relative to pay for it.

Having been branded a ‘failure’ by Dev, who has owned and operated multiple Weatherfield businesses since he arrived in 1999, things came to a head for the teenager as he hit a new low. Clearly unsure what to do next, Aadi decided to drink his problems away as he ignored calls and text from Lauren, who had been hoping to meet him that day.

Eventually, he was spotted by builders Gary Windass (Mikey North) and Theo Silverton (James Cartwright). He was blocking their van and it all ended in calamity when he refused to move, as he fell and hit his head on a brick wall. Dev, desperate to find his son after he wasn’t in bed after Lauren came calling for him, swooped onto the scene to see what had happened to his son, but Aadi refused any help from him whatsoever and stormed off.