Overview
- Griffiths says she always knew the role was limited and expresses sadness about leaving after four months.
- The ongoing plot has Celia and adoptive son Ray orchestrating a county‑lines drugs network and exploiting vulnerable people for forced labour.
- Producers worked with the Salvation Army to inform the modern slavery storyline, according to new reporting.
- Griffiths reveals Celia’s signature cravat hides a neck scar from an attempted decapitation in the character’s past.
- She calls playing an unempathetic villain freeing yet exhausting and expects viewer reactions to harden as events unfold.