The marriage of Sarah Platt (Tina O’Brien) and Adam Barlow (Sam Robertson) in 2020 forged a bond between the Platts and the Barlows – two revered Coronation Street families who haven’t always seen eye to eye.

Eager to create a special family occasion in Monday (July 31)’s episode, Adam had organised a surprise gender reveal party for the baby he and Sarah are expecting, and it was important to him that both families should be there to show ‘a united front.’ Adam hoped it would be the start of a new chapter.

Since Sarah had an affair with Damon Hay (Ciaran Griffiths) which Adam discovered, he’s been having panic attacks over the whole thing and especially over whether the baby is his or Damon’s. Sarah has allowed him to think that he’s the father and she hoped there would never be any reason for him to think otherwise.

Unfortunately when the clinic refused to release the gender of the baby to the balloon company who were preparing the surprise reveal, Adam had to contact the clinic himself. And he made a shocking discovery – he’s not the baby’s father.

When the Platts and the Barlows assembled as instructed at the bistro, Adam had a box with a balloon in it. Everyone was expecting a pink or blue balloon and they were ready to be delighted whatever the outcome.

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What they weren’t ready for was a white balloon with ‘It’s Damon’s’ written on it in marker pen.

Sarah was devastated to realise that Adam had discovered the secret and exposed it in such a public way in front of her mum, brother and gran and in front of Adam’s family too. Maybe if it had been a private matter between her and Adam she might have had a chance of talking him round, but having the full force of Barlow disapproval against her took things to a whole new level.

She called round to number 1 as soon as she could to speak to Adam, but Tracy (Kate Ford) answered the door. She accused Sarah of ‘saying whatever comes into your head to manipulate people,’ telling her to ‘Take your cheating mind games as far away from here as possible.’

A despairing Sarah was apparently rescued by Ken (William Roache), who came to the door and gently told Tracy ‘That’s enough.’

Sarah was grateful, but Ken said he hadn’t done it for her. He was trying to protect the famously volatile Tracy from herself, he said and told his daughter-in-law, ‘I think you should stay away, Sarah. Adam deserved better. Let him grieve for the future you let him believe in.’

Oh, ouch. Ken’s always been good at choosing exactly the right words, and these were absolutely brutal under the circumstances. All the more so for being delivered in his more-in-sorrow-than-anger voice.

As Sarah tried to persuade Ken that she and grandson could ‘still have that future,’ Ken closed the door in her face, leaving her sobbing on the doorstep with Tracy yelling out of an upstairs window for ‘Somebody to clear the trash off our doorstep.’

When you hurt one Barlow, it seems, you hurt them all.

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