Coronation Street spoilers: Toyah does some digging into Leanne’s cult and is chilled by what she finds
Toyah Battersby (Georgia Taylor) is seriously concerned about her sister Leanne (Jane Danson)’s wellbeing in upcoming Coronation Street episodes.
Leanne has recently fallen under the spell of an organisation called the Altovalent Institute after meeting a leading light called Rowan Cunliffe (Emrhys Cooper).
Leanne was soon captivated by the charismatic Rowan and was eagerly embracing the practices and teachings of the organisation. One of the concepts, so-called ‘reality coding’ is something that she’s started doing in her everyday life and she credits it for any successes she might have.
If they get a large booking at the bistro it’s all thanks to reality coding rather than hard work and good marketing.
While this is apparently making Leanne happy, Toyah is troubled by the whole thing because some of the ideas seem dangerous and quite cult-like.
What she doesn’t know is that Rowan has secretly recorded a session in which he encouraged Leanne to open up about some of the more unsavoury periods of her past – like her time as a sex worker and the time she set fire to her own restaurant for insurance purposes.
His motives are clearly questionable at best.
Toyah becomes more worried when she finds an online forum for people who are former members of the organisation. The forum users are reporting a lot of negative things and warn that the Institute is not to be trusted.
Toyah tries to show her sister what she’s found, only to discover that the posts have been taken down ‘for legal reasons’ – which only makes Toyah feel more suspicious.
Leanne tries to brush off her sister’s worries but she’s concerned enough to call Rowan, who tells her that the negative posts were written by a disgruntled ex of his who’s trying to cause trouble for him. Then he invites Leanne for a tour of the Institute and she’s flattered by his attention.
On this tour she meets a man called Jared who promises to help Simon (Alex Bain) with his food delivery app.
When Simon tells Toyah about this her suspicions are again raised when Simon says he’ll need to raise some money first.
Now seriously worried that Simon is getting swept up in the same scam that Leanne has fallen for, Toyah decides she needs to do more detective work. She tracks down the phone number of Una, Rowan’s ex, and arranges to meet – which is what happens in this new video.
She explains that her sister has become heavily involved with the Institute and Toyah is worried that she could be in danger.
Will Una confirm her fears that Leanne is being manipulated?
