While the relationship has been bottled up for months, it’s all starting to spill out on the Street.
Tonight’s instalment of Coronation Street sees Rana (played by Bhavna Limbachia) come clean to Zeedan (Qasim Ahktar) about the illicit romance.
The nurse becomes overwhelmed after attending Luke Britton’s (Dean Fagan) funeral, and breaks down to her husband.
Bhavna has revealed the reasons behind Rana confessions that will air tonight on the ITV soap.
She explained in an interview with Digital Spy: “I think it is the guilt. Rana is ridden with guilt, seeing Zeedan trying so hard with his life, trying to build a life for them together with the business and talking about children.”
The 33-year-old went on to make a surprising revelation about Rana and Kate’s (Faye Brookes) relationship, and confirmed that it was finished.
“Seeing Kate every day, Rana is just a complete mess and she can’t cope with the guilt anymore which is why she comes clean, even though the affair is to all intents and purpose over.”
“Rana wants to get rid of the guilt and she wants to try and do the right thing. She knows how kind and loving Zeedan is and she has a false hope that they can try and work on their marriage with this out in the open. She would be absolved of the guilt.
“She isn’t doing it to clear the way for her and Kate. As far as she is aware that is over, she just wants to move on with Zeedan with no more secret guilt.”
The news may shock viewers who were hoping for a happy ending for the fan favourites, who are affectionately nicknamed “Kana”.
It looks as though Rana will be repressing her true feelings once more, which could spell for disastrous consequences later on.
It seems unlikely that the marriage could last with her actions driven solely by guilt, and a “false hope”.
Next week, tensions rise once more when Zeedan forces his wife to tell her parents that she’s been having an affair.
She manages to tell them the truth, before Zeedan chimes in to inform them that the other party was in fact a woman.
Rana is unsurprised by their negative reaction, but she gets the shock of her life when they devise a peculiar proposition for the couple.
Coronation Street continues tonight at 7.30pm on ITV.
