claudia begins a relationship with ken in 2019. after being scammed out of all her money, audrey decides to sell her share of the salon to claudia, infuriating audrey's grandson, david platt (jack p. shepherd), who squirts shampoo over both audrey and claudia. when ken's son, peter barlow (chris gascoyne), suffers an alcohol relapse, claudia pays for peter to enter rehab. claudia later supports audrey when it transpires that her eldest grandson, nick tilsley (ben price), was the culprit who scammed her out of her money.