Coronation Street flashback confirms what's haunting Dee-Dee Bailey amid pregnancy prediction

Coronation Street has confirmed what's really haunting Dee-Dee Bailey amid speculation among fans that she may be pregnant. The local legal hotshot has clearly been struggling after it was confirmed her ex-fiance Joel Deering's body had been found.

As viewers know, Dee-Dee didn't believe her former partner was dead when he went missing at the end of last month. A warrant was issued for Joel's arrest as he was seemingly set to face his comeuppance for his twisted crimes.

However, after transferring money to his grooming victim and mother of his new son Lauren Bolton, as well as his ex-wife Emily, and leaving an emotional voicemail for Dee-Dee, Joel's car was found abandoned, and it was believed he may have ended up taking his own life.

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DS Lisa Swain and Kit Green carried on digging on what really happened to Joel. But soon, Swain was pulled off the case after Kit found text messages that Joel had sent her daughter, Betsy, threatening to kill her.

Corrie viewers then got a big update on Joel durng Monday night's (October 14) visit to Weatherfield. After three lads at a riverbank spotted a body floating in the water which PC Craig Tinker later announced to be the missing legal expert.

As the news was broken to the likes of Lauren and Dee-Dee, it was Kit who later confirmed Joel was dead when he went in the water, turning the case into a murder investigation.

During Wednesday's (October 16) trip to the cobbles, Kit reveals to Lisa that Joel died from two blows to the head, inflicted by a heavy weapon, most likely a crowbar. So Swain was shocked to discover from Yasmeen Metcalfe that she had thrown Mason Radcliffe out because he had a crowbar.

She went back to the station to encourage Kit to look into the possible lead and later, as the teen disposed of the tool in a bin, he was caught in the act by Kit. Hauled in for question, Kit asked Mason who admitted he threw out the crowbar after refusing to do a burglary for his brothers and was squatting in Speed Daal alone on the night Joel was killed.

It was suggested that he may have had motive thanks to his relationship with Betsy Swain and in a flashback clip, it appeared Mason wasn't quite telling the truth about not being interested in Betsy as she was seen visiting him in tears and scared that Joel was going to come after her as Mason vowed to protect her on the night Joel was killed.

Then, as Dee-Dee spoke to Ronnie about the details of Joel's murder, a flashback clip revealed what he was up to the night Joel died, ahead of Friday's episode teasing he may have been at Joel's flat. In his flashback, Ronnie was seen angrily rummaging through a toolbox in Ed's builder's yard. He eventually came across a crowbar, raising it in the air.

Now, as the murder investigation into the death of Joel gathers pace, two more suspects will be revealed in Friday night's (October 18) gripping instalment of Corrie, which has already been made available on ITVX.

When Kit arrives at Ronnie’s (Vinta Morgan) birthday party to question both him and his brother Ed about their whereabouts on the night of Joel’s disappearance, both men claim they were at home.

However viewers will be taken back to the night of September 27th where a shocking flashback sees the brothers meet up and drive off under the cover of darkness taking a crowbar with them!

Feeling the heat as the police ramp up their enquiries, we later see Joel’s wronged ex Dee-Dee (Channique Sterling-Brown) break down before her own flashback reveals a haunted Dee-Dee reliving the moment she came face to face with Joel that fateful night. With four suspects now added to Weatherfield’s crime wall, is one of these faces Joel’s killer?

It comes as fans have speculated at to whether Dee-Dee's pregnant. Following a recent episode of the ITV soap, one viewer said: "Dee dee was acting weird again last night. Went to drink her wine and then excused herself to the toilet..." But another replied: "Was the sickness due to murdering him not pregnancy as she was supposedly waiting till after marriage?" A third added: "She hasn't slept with anyone yet because of her religion. She killed him."