Asha on Coronation Street on October 6, 2025 / ITV
Coronation Street star Jimmi Harkishin has said that his character Dev will be left “berating himself” after his daughter Asha (Tanisha Gorey) is hospitalised next week.
For the last several weeks, viewers have seen trainee paramedic Asha become increasingly more anxious and lonely following her twin brother Aadi’s exit for India and a horrifying incident on shift that saw her abused and spat at by a patient.
Asha has started turning to drink – and possibly drugs too – in an attempt to cope and in next week’s episodes she is discovered unconscious in Victoria Garden.
“[Dev] gets a call from Amy,” explained Harkishin, “and suddenly his whole world turns upside down, and that’s when he starts going into denial mode, and says, ‘No, this is going to be fine.’
“I remember the emotion being that he just does not want to face that. He doesn’t want to hear that word. “
Dev is left feeling a mixture of emotions following the incident, from anger at Asha’s actions to frustration with himself for not seeing that she was struggling.
“That sense of impotence, that sense of not being able to change, and not being able to see it coming, not being able to fix it,” Harkishin continued.
“I think he’s berating himself more than anybody there, and it comes out because we always do that, don’t we? We only show our true emotions to the people that are closest to us because it’s just easier to do it that way. Dev goes and takes out all his frustrations, his anger, his self-doubt and recriminations with Bernie.
“But when he goes back to the hospital, he’s very, very gentle with his daughter, caring and apologetic, and then he walks out there, and then he’s angry and he’s crying, and then he goes back to the hospital, and his daughter never sees any of that. There’s a massive mask that just keeps slipping as soon as he leaves her.”
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