In a gripping series of episodes aired last week on Coronation Street, viewers were taken deep into the troubled past of Kit Green and Mick Michaelis through powerful flashback scenes that shed new light on their long-standing feud. The emotional flashbacks revealed that when they were younger, Kit had committed a violent act—an attack on a shopkeeper that resulted in serious injuries to an innocent woman. Rather than take responsibility, Kit allowed Mick to be blamed for the crime. As a result, Mick was arrested and served time in prison, a life-altering event that crushed his dreams of joining the army and forever changed the course of his future. The revelations brought a heartbreaking new perspective to Mick’s simmering resentment toward Kit, leaving audiences with a deeper understanding of the pain and betrayal that has defined their relationship for years.

There’s no love lost between Kit and Mick (Credit: ITV)

Kit and Mick’s rivalry explained

Fast-forward to the present day, and Mick and Kit are now at loggerheads over their shared secret. And, as Mick continued to make enemies all over the Street, he leaned on Kit to escape culpability for beating up Gary Windass.

But Kit had another secret that even Mick doesn’t know about – he’d slept with Lou while Mick was locked up, potentially making him Brody’s biological father.

Viewers, however, were more distracted by a glaring discrepancy between old and young Kit.

Brook Debio plays young Kit (Credit: ITV)

Coronation Street fans distracted by error in flashback Kit

As last week’s flashback scenes aired, fans took to social media to share their thoughts. And many had noticed that the resemblance between young Kit and his modern counterpart was lacking in one key area… namely, they had different coloured eyes.

“So we are meant to believe that teen Kit with brown eyes is meant to be the grown up Kit with blue eyes? #CoronationStreet surely they could find an actor with the same colour eyes,” wrote one fan.

“and one problem.. kit as a kid brown eyes .. kit as an adult blue eyes…. Sack the casting crew. Eye colour does not change!!!!!” said another.

“I hadn’t realised eye colour changes at puberty! In tonight’s Corrie (Fri 16 May) Kit has blue eyes but in the flashbacks his eyes are brown! Get a grip!” a third exclaimed.

“I guess they couldn’t find an actor with the same colour eyes as the present day Kit on Coronation Street because, you know, there just aren’t many actors around, are there?” said another.

Did this ruin the flashback scenes for you?