A couple of months ago things were looking rosy for Daniel Osbourne (Rob Mallard) and Daisy Midgeley (Charlotte Jordan) in Coronation Street. The couple were in love and planning their wedding.

There was, however, a shadow falling over the happiness of the wedding preparations as Daisy was being terrorised by stalker Justin Rutherford (Andrew Still). After innocently chatting to him when his mother was ill in hospital, Daisy became the target of his obsessive attention.

This culminated in a vicious acid attack on the day of the wedding, which was aimed at Daisy though Ryan Connor (Ryan Prescott) ended up being hit by the acid.

Since then, Daisy has been doing everything she can to help Ryan recover from his terrible injuries, including posing as his former girlfriend Crystal in text messages. This has been bringing Daisy and Ryan closer together.

Meanwhile the spectre of Justin is still hanging over everything as they have to face his trial and hope they get a guilty verdict. All of this has put huge pressure on Daniel and Daisy’s relationship, as Rob Mallard explained.

‘Daisy and Daniel hope for a guilty verdict and that would be a relief and a victory. It would signal the end of a chapter in their lives that they would rather forget,’ he said.

‘But as the trial ends, it’s the start of this triangle that now exists between Ryan, Daisy and Daniel. Daniel has to be sensitive to the severity of what happened between Daisy and Ryan. Daniel now has this awkward role of understanding why Daisy and Ryan are keeping each other around while also wishing Ryan would just go away! We will see Daniel start to measure up aspects of himself to Ryan and there may be some butting of male egos…’

Rob told us that his previously ‘volatile’ character has matured in recent years, but as the rivalry with Ryan ramps up that aspect of his character could resurface.

‘Daniel has grown a lot as a person over the last five years, he used to be a lot more volatile. He has had a lot of maturing experiences happen to him like reconnecting with his family after years of being isolated and living by himself, which has made him trust people more. He’s been married, he’s had a kid, his wife’s died and he’s had to keep it together for his son. I think all these maturing experiences have taken the edge off the character but a storyline based in jealousy would certainly bring those aspects of his character back out.’

For the time being, Daniel remains oblivious to the deepening connection between his fiancée and Ryan while the viewers know exactly what’s going on. Rob said he finds this aspect of portraying the character interesting to do.

‘I recently did a scene where Daniel buys Daisy flowers and chocolates just randomly, out of the blue,’ he revealed. ‘So playing that side of Daniel whilst the audience know that he is being deceived means that I can have fun with it a lot more because I want the audience to think, “Oh no, he’s showering her with affection and he doesn’t have any clue that she is playing away!” I hope there is a fraction of people that are on Daniel’s side!’

Asked whether he thinks Daisy will end up with Daniel or Ryan, Rob felt that Daisy and Daniel should be the pairing that would last.

‘Ryan is a DJ and probably on paper, he looks a better fit because he’s into social media and entertainment but I think Daisy and Daniel really complement each other,’ he said.

‘Daisy has made Daniel a lot more confident and outgoing and Daniel has made Daisy care less about superficial things because she now has a connection to Bertie and she understands the importance of being a caregiver and deeper things than getting likes on social media.’

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