Coronation Street fans baffled as a SINKHOLE suddenly appears in the Platt’s garden

Coronation Street viewers were left baffled on Friday night as a sinkhole randomly appeared in the Platt family’s back garden. 

During the episode, David and Sarah Platt, Shona Ramsay and Nina Lucas gather at in the garden for a BBQ, but the festivities were interrupted by an almighty crash, leaving a massive hole in the grass.

The bizarre moment came amid the ITV soap’s first hour long special since COVID-19 restrictions were put in place and comes ahead of its return to six episodes a week. 

The group are left dumbfounded as they stared down the huge crater in the middle of the garden, while Colin from the water company later tells them the house is unsafe to now live in.

Watching the events unfold, Coronation Street viewers took to Twitter in their drives to comment in the shocking goings on in the Street.

‘I know Shona was going for it on that trampoline but that’s ridiculous #Corrie’ commented one viewer. 

While another shared: ‘WTF just happened? How very 2020. #Corrie.’ 

‘Seen it all now. A sinkhole in #corrie’ tweeted a third watcher.

‘Wow! That sinkhole storyline is so random’ commented a shocked viewer.

With another adding: ‘And 2020 has just got even madder-#Corrie is doing a sinkhole storyline!’

Meanwhile, soap expert Sarah Marshall previously teased that the sinkhole drama is set to be part of a bigger storyline for the Platts.

She said on This Morning earlier this month: ‘It initially means that the Platts are homeless – there’s always something going on there, there’s always bodies being buried there.

‘I can’t help thinking that if you’re going to go to the trouble of making a massive sinkhole, is this going to be part of a bigger storyline? And that’s what I’m hearing, possibly a big storyline coming up.’ 

Meanwhile, next week sees Coronation Street return to its usual six episodes per week.

Despite not going off air during the coronavirus lockdown, the soap had to ration episodes to just three a week, while production was halted for several months.

But with filming having recently resumed, albeit with social distancing restrictions, fans while now how a more regular fix of the Manchester-based soap.