Yahoo News Coronation Street cut a line from Stephen Reid's death scene
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Coronation Street cut a line from Stephen Reid's death scene, it's been revealed.
The serial killer's reign of terror finally came to an end last Friday (October 13) when Peter Barlow mowed him down with his car and killed him.
Although Peter was trying to save Jenny as Stephen held a weapon to her neck, Audrey is determined for him to go down for her son's murder and told the police he killed Stephen in "cold blood".
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During yesterday's (October 18) episode of This Morning, soap expert Sharon Marshall revealed that Todd Boyce, who plays Stephen, told her that the show's director cut one of his final lines from the episode.
"He said they cut one line of dialogue, so as he was dying, he originally said to Audrey, 'I love you'," she revealed.
Marshall also said that this explains why Audrey is "going off saying he shouldn't have died" and calling Peter "a murderer".
Boyce recently revealed that producer Iain MacLeod nearly extended Stephen's storyline by another six months.
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"Iain toyed with the idea of [giving Stephen] another six months," he explained during a recent appearance on This Morning. "But I think the audience were losing their minds – they wanted justice!"
Although Boyce won't be returning to the cobbles, he has already got some other acting roles lined up.
"The last week of November I start rehearsals for panto, which runs the last three weeks of December," he said.
"And then Bill Kenwright, who was famously an actor in Corrie before he became a massive theatre producer, has just offered me – without even blinking – the Laurence Olivier part in Sleuth."
Coronation Street airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX.
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