There goes my username. I'll miss Carla so much but the writing for her hasn't been up to scratch since 2012. Imo Ali King should have taken this exit around then, with all the misery and overexposure they've given her. Fingers crossed she'll be back in a few years.

Why is it that we've only just learned now that her exit is a permanent one?

DS have just reported on it now: http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/coro...er-people-now/

Whilst King will be a significant loss to the show, we have to remember that she's part of a large ensemble. Pat Phoenix, Violet Carson, Doris Speed, Jean Alexander, Julie Goodyear, Sarah Lancashire, Amanda Barrie, Suranne Jones, Katherine Kelly etc. are just some of the brilliant actresses who were seen as leading ladies at the forefront of the show who departed, and the show moved on. Corrie is a vehicle that has to keep on the move in the event of a big exit. It will survive Alison King's departure, as well as other exits that might seem like the end of the world.

because she said 6 months

Blatant attempt at damage limitation from Corrie PR. Alison King says in the interview that people presumed as 'the door was left open' yet every single press article was at great pains to stress that it was a break. Think she's just being diplomatic there.

Turning to the news itself - I should be gutted as Carla has been one of my all-time favourites and I just love Alison King all-round. But the character for me has been a sort of shadow of her former self ever since her and Peter settled after their 2012 break, and even more so in the last year where she's just becoming all-out whiney now. She'll still be missed as a presence on the street, and Alison as an incredibly charismatic actress.

Hoping Kate Oates has the opportunity to turn her around a bit and put a strong exit in place as I can't see Blackburn really doing it justice.

I'm thinking the production team brought in that horrid family to make her stay a bit longer, possibly to change her mind. Or they privately accepted she'd leave, so the family came in to ease her exit.

Carla Connor should serve a stark reminder to scriptwriters and producers on how you can destroy a competent soap character and the dangers that come with overexposure.

Woo Hoo. Good riddance. Sick and tired of her endless repeat cycle of storylines and a completely overrated actress and character. Things are looking up at Corrie. No more Alison or Ryan and probably Eileen. Now if only the Windasses, Fiz and the rest of the Grimshaws left, Corrie would be fantastic.

Corrie have been guilty of that in the past: Michelle Keegan is a prime example. By the time Tina departed, the audience had lost interest long beforehand, due to the character being turned into an immoral, selfish home wrecker. They also came pretty close to it with Molly Dobbs, but her exit was spectacular.

Is there any chance of Kate Oates overseeing Carla's exit? I dread to think what Blackburn has in mind...

I heard Kate doesn't now start till March and SB had already said he stories would be on screen till Autumn so Carla's exit will be Blackburn stuff unless Kate scrap its which due to the time scales involved will be unlikely

I agree with this. Carla was fantastic when she came in but I lost interest after the Frank Foster stuff. No fault of the actress. They just chucked too much misery on her and the stories no longer resonated. Good luck to Ali.

Carla is my fav by a long mile. If I lived on corrie she'd be the person I'd most want to hang out with.

Such a shame! Carla is one of the only characters that I can say I'll genuinely miss on Corrie! Hopefully she'll consider coming back in the near future.

She will do well . Good luck to Alison

Disappointed to hear that she is leaving. Like many others she is my favourite character in Corrie at the moment and she will be much missed. I am also going to miss Emily and Jason. While there are still a number of characters I like unfortunately not as many as there used to be. Like everyone else I wish Alison well. I hope that she ends up doing something completely different.

I agree and Carla has become increasingly emotionless.

Goodness knows what will happen if the new Connors don't work out and if they don't Michelle's role will become precarious as the new producer might decide to call time on the Connor family. All of them certainly need some better SLs/scripts.

I actually thought she was leaving permanently anyway

Best exit ever. Went out with a bag of pencils

Don't worry - we'll still have Fiz and Sean - they'd need a crowbar to get them out.

So true. Carla was one of my favourites for years but I can hardly stand to watch her now.

Shame, I like Carla,but they overdid it heaping misery after misery on her.

What's the betting that she gets bumped off during BGT week?

I can't pretend that I ever liked Carla that much, but Alison King plays her well.

As the door is apparently being left open, Carla will probably just move to LA for good. *yawns*.

It was particularly irritating that almost every character commented on Tina's beauty at regular intervals. I'm not sure why but perhaps it was to make her sudden affair with Peter (and suddenly becoming Simon's best mate) more convincing. Every blooming time beautiful Tina emerged on to the street, there was Peter, and vice versa. The inevitability and repetitiveness become really tedious. Much as I like the character of Carla, we'd just had too much of her, too many dramas and traumas. Too much red wine and gambling. Characters seem to get stuck, so there can be no progression, just more and more of the same, with an affair or one-night stand thrown in from time to time.

Delighted she's gone. Alison King was great but Carla is the worst.

Wonder if Michelle might get An actual storyline now.

And who will takeover the fActory? I can't see the Connors lasting.

The father & siblings reaveal seems even more pointless now. They should've just being left as they were originally introduced - her late husband's distant cousins...I think?

I hated Carla for years, it has only been the last few years I have cone to really like her. What a shame she is going. What on earth is going on behind the scenes with so many breaks and exits announced?

Huge loss. Shame it's a permanent exit. Good Luck to her.

It probably is draining doing the storylines constantly that she does though. So much misery. I suppose if the door is left open then there is always a chance she will come back. Would have liked to have seen what Kate Oates would have done with her character.

I'm gutted they sucked me into liking Nick and Carla