Lauren’s secret is discovered by Ryan (Picture: ITV)

Trouble teen Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton) turns to selling intimate videos and images online in Coronation Street soon as she desperately tries to earn more money.

A few weeks ago, it became apparent that Lauren owed cash to someone. She took to blackmailing Ryan (Ryan Prescott) and Daisy (Charlotte Jordan) after working out they had slept together but soon, Ryan learns that Lauren has been posting content on O-Vidz, the same site he previously used to make money.

Ryan points out that Lauren is underage and threatens to report her, but she insists that she needs the money and says if her account is reported, she will tell Daniel (Rob Mallard) about Ryan sleeping with his partner.

Meeting up with Daisy, Ryan tells her about Lauren’s pornographic videos and how he had to report her out of a sense of duty, but is now fearing that she’ll spill the beans to Daniel out of revenge.

But are they about to be found out?

‘I think Lauren is very desperate and when you’re that desperate, you are constantly living in survival mode,’ actress Cait Fitton told Metro.co.uk. ‘Lauren is a survivor. I think being desperate can lead to negative consequences because you don’t think straight and you’re selfish.

‘Lauren will do what she wants to get what she wants because that’s what she’s been taught and the only way she knows to get by. She knows that Ryan really cares for Daisy and she plays on that.

Lauren has been blackmailing Daisy and Ryan (Picture: ITV)

‘Lauren and Daisy have no loyalties to each other and she understands that it’s the only way she’s going to get into Ryan’s head by threatening to bring Daisy into it. I’d like to think that she wouldn’t do it, but if it’s something that threatens her safety or the people that she cares about then sadly I think she would do it.’

‘Even though she hasn’t got physical scarring, she definitely has internal scarring that she would like to mend and may see this as an opportunity to do so’, Cait said, explaining why Lauren joins the O-Vidz platform.

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‘Now more than ever, Lauren needs to make as much money as she possibly can as she now sees herself as an adult, even though she’s only seventeen years old.

‘Lauren is no stranger to doing things in order to get money which we saw through her interaction with Roy so I don’t think Lauren will look at the downsides of O-Vidz, unfortunately.’

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Lauren is desperate for money.