Kissing her goodbye? See Coronation Street's Stella and Karl enjoy sneaky snog

Kissing her goodbye? See Coronation Street's Stella and Karl enjoy sneaky snog

That looks to be a little bit more than a consolatory kiss…

Coronation Street’s landlady Stella Price gives her ex Karl Munro a right smacker in scenes from Sunita Alahan’s funeral â€" but are there flickers of passion found among the grief?

Earlier this week, Stella told the gambling addict cabbie that they could no longer be friends.

But it seems that the Rovers boss offers more than just a shoulder to cry on as Karl’s former lover is buried.

Little does she know that it was him that started the blaze that torched her beloved pub.

Dev Alahan at the Coronation Street funeral of Sunita

It is thought fireman Paul Kershaw, played by Tony Hirst, will also perish in the fire.

A teaser on the soap’s website a couple of weeks ago said: “You may have read reports that the Rovers fire will claim lives.

"We can now exclusively reveal more than one person could die in the blaze at the Rovers.

“Will landlady Stella fall victim to the fire? Could it be barmaid Tina? Fireman Paul? Bad guy Karl? Sunita? Gloria? Eva? Toyboy Jason? No one is safe from the killer flames.”