Coronation Street suffered a furious backlash from fans over its April Fool’s Day video for a fake sitcom.
The ITV soap posted a hilarious trailer for a fake sitcom called Victoria Street on its social media pages yesterday, but its reveal that it was an April Fool’s joke confused and then infuriated fans.
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Writing on Twitter, the soap said: April Fools! Victoria Street isn’t real… but we bet you wish it was! #Corrie #VictoriaStreet #AprilFoolsDay #GotYou.”
Unfortunately hundreds of fans thought the soap was talking about the actual Victoria Street, the massively expensive set expansion recently revealed to the press.
And all hell broke loose.
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