Coronation Street confirms what definitely won't happen with Christmas 'treat' for Peter and Carla fans before exit

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Coronation Street has confirmed what we definitely won't see from Peter Barlow ahead of his exit from Weatherfield. Actor Chris Gascoyne briefly revealed in July that he will be leaving the role after becoming the seventh actor to play Ken Barlow's son in 2000.

But a Coronation Street spokesperson said at the time that the door is 'left open' - meaning the 55-year-old could return in the future.

Chris later shared how he was pleased that the end of villain Stephen Reid opened up the door for his own character's exit - with Peter being the one to stop the serial killer by mowing him down dead in the street. "It just came together at the right time," he said earlier this month. "I've learned a bit more about Peter than I knew before.

The more that I know, the more that I see this side of him the more I like him, he's got a lot of depth and it has been great to explore that." READ MORE: Coronation Street's Peter Barlow exit scenes teased in new pictures with Christmas departure from Weatherfield READ MORE: Read more of our Coronation Street stories here Now, Corrie producer Iain MacLeod has detailed more about Peter's exit after Chris was snapped filming his exit scenes, which will air on Boxing Day this year, by jumping onto a Metrolink tram to Piccadilly. "What we wanted to do with Peter was to try to play the reality of a man who has got demons, it's fair to say, and a history of alcoholism and depressive episodes, his reaction to what he did to Stephen," Iain told the Manchester Evening News. "The battle to get straight in his own mind whether what he did was justified, whether it was necessary, how much of it was informed by his anger over what Stephen did to Carla...