Overview

• The August 18 episode featured Cassie Plummer and Steve McDonald in a sexual encounter that Tyrone Dobbs walked in on, with Steve using a teddy bear to preserve his modesty.
• The episode aired at 8pm on ITV1 and was available on ITVX, with one outlet noting availability from 7am on the day of broadcast.
• Many social-media posts objected to the pre-watershed content and called for a warning, with several viewers stressing that children could be watching.
• Other fans welcomed the comic tone and described the sequence as a humorous lift for the long-running soap.
• Follow-up coverage on August 20 highlighted Alan Halsall’s lighthearted Instagram post referencing the teddy bear gag, and no broadcaster or regulator response was reported in these articles.