claudia's doubts about lewis' reliability as a permanent suitor for audrey were to be proved right. on 13 august 2010, claudia attended a party audrey's daughter, gail mcintyre (helen worth), threw for audrey and lewis who were moving abroad to run a hotel. however, lewis chose that day to vanish from audrey's life and audrey was confronted by footage of him defrauding barlow's bookies and diverting deirdre barlow's (anne kirkbride) attention by kissing her. claudia got drunk with rita, and delighted in the floor show as gail pushed a manchester tart into deirdre's face. claudia was not seen again until she arrived in the rovers on new year's eve 2010, where she donated the prize of luxury treatments in perm suspect to the evening's charity raffle and befriended locals. the prize was won by a disgruntled audrey, who had already had her nose put out of joint after her donation of a pedicure and manicure at audrey's salon was somewhat dwarfed by claudia's generosity.