Ryan Connor (Ryan Prescott) is continuing to spiral in the aftermath of his acid attack in Coronation Street.
Recently, he returned from Ireland and revealed his plan to start a fitness account on social media.
While Ryan was open about this, he failed to tell Carla (Alison King) and Peter (Chris Gascoyne) that he had also started taking steroids, which change his physical appearance.
Ryan is struggling with his body image as a result of the acid attack, which has left him permanent scarring.
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Experiencing a whirlwind of emotions all of the time, Ryan needs all the support he can get right now, but he’s often seen pushing people away – especially Daisy (Charlotte Jordan), who Justin intended to the throw acid at.
As she struggled with her guilt, Daisy chose to catfish Ryan, allowing him to believe that he was developing a genuine relationship with a woman called Crystal.
The situation provided a positive distraction for Ryan, but it ultimately led to devastation once he discovered what Daisy had been up to.
Of course, because Ryan and Daisy had been speaking for months, they had inadvertently created a really strong connection. It led to them kissing, but Ryan asserted he couldn’t be friends with Daisy once the truth was revealed.
Because time has passed, things have changed between the two and in upcoming episodes, they even agree to meeting up for a drink.
However, once Ryan discovers Daisy and Daniel’s (Rob Mallard) plan to move in together, his emotions suddenly change, as Ryan Prescott explained:
‘He doesn’t have Daisy any more, Peter and Carla don’t really want him living with them after his behaviour recently, his mom’s not there. His mom obviously doesn’t come to visit him or anything like that. His relationship with Alya has kind of fizzled out to nothing much at all so there’s very few people in his life that he actually has a relationship with.
‘He’s just so isolated’, he said.
‘He spends a lot of time by himself, a lot of time on his phone and on the computer and a lot of time avoiding social situations. I think the more and more he gets into his denial stage of delusion. The more he’s feeling that loneliness, so he’s still trying to reach out and hold on to those relationships that he has. With Daisy he is very, very aware that he knows that she’s engaged.
‘That it’s probably never going to happen for him and Daisy, but hearing about Daisy and Daniel moving in together and having each other is hard for him. When you’ve experienced such a traumatic event with someone it binds you to each other, there is an unspoken bond and it is confusing his feelings.’
After Ryan changes his mind about meeting Daisy, he heads back to the flat and decides to create an account on O-Vidz, which is a similar platform to OnlyFans.
‘You see him have this dialogue with a girl he knows who talks to him about how to keep your followers engaged and keep growing a following and to make more money’, Ryan explained.
‘You have to go above and beyond these typical fitness shots and start with more sexual images, incentive pictures and the more people that come into that world hooked by those pictures the more broader your audience becomes, and with the broadening of your audience, they ask for different things.
‘They asked for more intimate things and he found that very quickly that he was losing followers and losing subscribers from not doing more. So that kind of pushed him more and more into doing more risky pics and to be honest, within one week of posting incentive pictures, he was having a one on one live session.
‘They start asking for videos, which was kind of a way outside of his comfort zone. But there’s probably a week in between sending pictures and him doing a one on one live, interactive session. He is very quickly swallowed up by it and as the money starts coming in he is hooked.’
Ryan sighed: ‘I think at this point, he can’t see a reality moving forward. He can’t see what that is and I think that’s the problem. That’s why he’s allowed himself to get so lost in the fitness and so lost in the gratification of strangers’ comments, because he can’t define who he is supposed to be within his community or himself within his family or society in general. He can’t really see that for himself anymore.
‘That kind of leads into this point that he can’t see who he is anymore. So he’s trying to find it’, he added.
‘I think he’s trying to find it within the likes and comments of strangers. It also allows him to have that separation from what he’s doing, as long as the people around him aren’t seeing it. One thing that’s always stuck with me is he’s trying to find a new truth for himself.’
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