Eva Price’s pregnancy drama on Coronation Street is set to get even more dramatic in the weeks ahead.
Played by Catherine Tyldesley, Eva is pregnant with ex-boyfriend Aidan Connor’s (Shayne Ward) child, but has only told a handful of people that she is expecting her first baby.
The barmaid has been keeping the pregnancy a secret and once she gives birth she's intent on giving the child to Toyah Battersby (Georgia Taylor), as she is unable to conceive.
But recently Eva has started to have doubts about the pact, and Catherine Tydesley has been talking about the mental struggles her character has been having with the situation.
"She went into it with a very genuine heart, her and Toyah have developed this really strong bond and relationship and she genuinely felt sorry for Toyah and she thought she could absolutely deal with it," Tyldesley says.
"But as we know, and as the viewers know Eva has got a big heart and things are going to be extremely difficult for her and she is still in love with Aidan, as much a she tries to deny it she does still love him, and it is their baby so at the same time she is wracked with guilt."
And while she initially thought that giving her baby to Toyah would be the ideal solution, she was really being very naïve.
"Yes she is not the brightest of girls, and she never thinks about the consequences, at that moment she thinks oh my god this is the ideal solution," says Tyldesley.
"Toyah can have the baby, she will get her life back and hopefully get back with Adam and she just didn’t question the consequences."
"They were both naive and desperate, that is the key word here desperate, they are both looking for something and this sounds like the ideal solution when in fact it is anything but."
Eva is also set to sign the lease on the cottage in Lymm this week, which would see her move away from Weatherfield as her pregnancy starts to become more obvious.
Tyldesley reckons that Eva "has been putting it off but it is getting to the point that she can’t hide this bump any more or play it off as the heartbreak diet.
"She also is finding it incredibly difficult to be on the street because of Aidan and Adam and she now realises that the best thing to do is go to the cottage.
"But she is very dubious about it because she is not good on her own, she has always needed a boyfriend or a mum or a sister and she will be in the middle of nowhere. She is very needy so she is worried about it."
Tyldesley also reckons that Eva should come clean and tell Aidan that she's pregnant with his child.
"Yes 100% if I was her friend I would never have let her go this far in the first place," she insists. "But it has taken Eva this long she knew she loved him, she has been suppressing it, she hasn't let those feelings in, every time she has thought about him she has just pushed it to one side.
"Over time and because she is carrying his baby it has overwhelmed her and made her realise how much she does care for him and if I was her friend I would be saying you have got to give this a go, and that is exactly what Toyah says to her."
