Coronation Street's Alison King shares unusual nickname for co-star as she encourages fans' Swain 'ideas'

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Coronation Street star Alison King has shared her unusual nickname for one of her newest co-stars as she seemingly encouraged fans to keep talking about a potential storyline for her character Carla Connor.

Back in May, viewers of the ITV soap went wild over scenes between Carla and DS Lisa Swain, played by Vicky Myers. Despite Swain being the reason Carla's friend Roy Cropper was behind bars at the time, over the suspected murder of missing teen Lauren Bolton, Carla was seen being sympathetic to the stressed-out detective and mum.

She did later return the favour, convincing Roy, who has since been released from prison but not before a terrifying ordeal with Griff Reynolds, to make up with his friend after he refused to speak to her over her and nephew Bobby Crawford's attempts to put him in the clear. READ MORE: Coronation Street's Alison King admits 'challenging goodbye' as she defends new addition READ MORE: Read more of our Coronation Street stories here But still showing her nice side, a grateful Carla then offered Swain’s daughter, who we now know is Betsy, Sabrina's mate who is blackmailing wrong'un Joel Deering, some work experience at the Underworld factory.

The scenes, however, sparked hope among fans that a romance could be on the cards for the pair, particularly after with Carla's marriage to Peter Barlow coming to an end on over Christmas, leading to his exit from Weatherfield.