Dev Alahan seemingly split from his wife Bernie at the end of Wednesday night’s Coronation Street after she decided to get involved in his daughter’s personal struggles
21:00, 22 Oct 2025Updated 21:27, 22 Oct 2025
Dev Alahan seemingly split from his wife Bernie at the end of Wednesday night’s Coronation Street(Image: ITV)
Dev Alahan seemingly split from his wife Bernie at the end of Wednesday night’s Coronation Street. Fans of the world’s longest-running TV soap will know that the Weatherfield business tycoon was left reeling after his daughter Asha tried to take her own life, having faced racist abuse in her job as a trainee paramedic.
In recent weeks, the teenager has been spiralling after a local careers event woman named Naomi drunkenly abused her while on shift. Asha’s stepmother Bernie then took matters into her own hands and tried to embarrass her during a work event at the Chariot Square Hotel, but that effort ultimately proved pointless after she won a local award.
An incensed Bernie decided to take things further and arrived at the bistro with her daughter Gemma, who decided to strike up a conversation with Naomi at her table while Bernie filmed the whole thing. Everything escalated very quickly and before long, Gemma and Naomi ended up in a physical fight, with Bernie screaming: “Get your filthy hands off my daughter!” This led to Bernie and Naomi being taken to the police station for questioning, and Dev decided to give her a few choice words.
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Bernie and Gemma got into a physical altercation with Naomi (Image: ITV)
In a video that quickly went viral on social media, Dev told Naomi: “You go out, you have too much to drink and it’s down to my daughter to pick up the pieces. That’s okay, that’s part of the job. What’s not okay is for her to be abused and assaulted, made to feel worthless. and useless. And that girl, who is more precious to me than anything, tried to take her life.” Upon seeing the video, Asha burst into tears.
It later emerged that Naomi had been charged with ABH, and DC Kit Green warned his long-lost mother to ‘leave the situation alone’ from now on. But Asha was not pleased with the situation, and she ranted: “How on earth is that making it better? It doesn’t matter because it just shows that neither of you can emotionally handle this.
“Doing whatever you think is best is more important. Dad, it’s not fair. Okay, because this is something that’s happening to me. And all I needed you to do was put your own feelings aside, and if you are not strong enough to do that, then then I can’t be around you right now.”
Asha was horrified to discover that a video of her dad discussing her struggles had gone viral(Image: ITV)
Dev, who was previously married to the late Sunita Alahan until she died in the Rovers Return fire in 2013, was on the verge of tears as his daughter stormed out of number seven. Bernie asked Dev if she should go after her, but Dev simply sat on the stairs and told her to leave.
Emotionally, he said: “No. But I do want you to go. Go and stay with Gemma, or wherever. But just not here.” Bernie asked: “What, just for a night?” but he didn’t respond, and she got her things and left.
Bernie and Dev initially planned to marry in August but things didn’t exactly go to plan when the bride-to-be was late and then collapsed on the spot as they were about to say their vows, and that was just the beginning of their troubles. It was set to be a flamboyant day full of bright colours and costumes at the Street’s token restaurant, but ambulance had to be called when Bernie struggled to breathe and she was quickly whisked off to hospital.
It soon transpired that Bernie had had an allergic reaction to the lilies that were in her wedding bouquet, and had been supplied by Preston’s Petals. The pair later said their vows whilst she was propped up in her hospital bed, and then tied the knot legally just a matter of days ago.
If indeed the pair have split, it will be one of the shortest marriages in the 65-year history of the programme, although other relationships have lasted considerably less time. In the early 1990s, Mike Baldwin was married to Jackie Ingram for just seven days. In 2022, Fiz was married to Phill Whittaker for a matter of hours until she realised she actually loved her current husband Tyrone.
What’s more, in 2012, Steve McDonald had only just married Tracy Barlow when Becky Granger came forward with incriminating evidence of Tracy’s betrayal, and in 2019, Rana Habeeb had only just managed to marry Kate Connor under the collapse of the factory roof when she died from her injuries.
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