Coronation Street boss Iain MacLeod opened up about the storyline, revealing it’s been in the pipelines for years… “A couple of years ago, a story of this type was floating around the writers room and it just felt like it was something that needed to be told. “It felt like it was something that sits very well in the soap genre.” Planned to perfection Iain also admitted that Nina’s character has always been heading for this storyline, ever since she arrived in Coronation Street back in November 2019. “As far back as the introduction as Nina, we knew this was the direction that the story was going to take,” Iain continued.