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Coronation Street Monthly Update
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BONFIRE GUY FAWKES are usually
dressed in old rags, a pair of shoes with holes in them and dirty
trousers that no-one wants anymore. But on Coronation Street, the
bonfire Guy was dressed up in style. In a haunting replay of
Richard Hillman driving the Platt clan into the canal back in
2003, David Platt sabotaged his sister’s wedding by driving his
car into the canal as Sarah and Jason were exchanging “I do’s” at
the altar. His evil plot to ruin his sister’s life then took a
step up when he dressed the Guy Fawkes in Sarah’s wedding dress.
The whole street stood and watched as it went up in flames on the
bonfire. Oh, he’s evil that David, but such good fun to watch. The
newlywed Mr and Mrs Grimshaw went on their honeymoon to the Lake
District to get away from deranged David but were soon back on the
cobbles when the heat from their marital passion failed to warm
them both up.
There’s been more passion on the
Street as teacher John Stape got to grips with his star pupil Rosie
Webster. Mum Sally developed a crush on John too and he had to turn
Sally down gently as he moved in to live with girlfriend Fiz. He
doesn’t half get the women running after him, does John Stape,
although how he does it is anyone’s guess. The geeky teacher has at
least managed to get Rosie to give up her office job at Underworld
and go back to school, for which Kev Webster is grateful. To show
his thanks to John, Kev bought John a drink in the Rovers. “Fancy a
pint, John?” he asked him, to which John replied “Bitter.” And
that’s just what Kev will be when he finds out John has been giving
lessons in love to his daughter Rosie after school.
There was even more passion for
the oldies in the Rovers as Rita and Emily gossiped about Norris and
Doreen’s fledging romance. Doreen set tongues wagging when she
called Norris a poppet. Norris has been called many things in his
time, but a poppet he most certainly isn’t. In fact, I can’t think
of anyone more poppet-less than him, but Doreen has given him the
glad eye which seems to have made Rita decidedly jealous.
Elsewhere, Jodie Morton left the
cobbles to head for the bright lights and kebab shops of London. She
told dad Jerry she’d had enough of being the family drudge, looking
after her siblings and working all the hours in the takeaway
stinking of chips. She hugged her family farewell and boarded the
Weatherfield Wayfarer which would whisk her away to the big city, or
at least as far as the terminus where she could then catch the
train.
Another Street regular left for
warmer climes this month when Hayley Cropper packed her bags and
headed off to Africa to do charity work for a year. Roy has been
left bereft and alone without his soulmate in the café, and feels
like he’s lost one half of his life. He’s like Laurel without Hardy
or Posh without Becks.
Over at Eileen’s house, the
normally shrinking Violet lost her temper with Sean when he tricked
his sexy sonographer boyfriend Marcus into revealing the sex of
Violet’s baby. This was something she was very much against knowing
but Sean being Sean decided he needed to know. Once he knew he only
went and blabbed to everyone in the Rovers that he was having a son
and of course when Violet found out what had happened she told Sean
to back off.
“You’re a donor, not the dad,” she
reminded him, somewhat firmly. Ooh, he’s a gossip that Sean.
In the Rovers, Liz McDonald
celebrated her 50th birthday. She wasn’t best pleased when Vernon
showed no sign of arranging a party for her and feckless Vern had to
be paid off by Liz’s son Steve to take Liz out for lunch. While Liz
and Vernon were out, Steve decorated the pub and got the regulars in
so that when Liz returned, Steve could spring the surprise party his
mum had been expecting all day. However, Vernon did surprise Liz
with two tickets for a romantic birthday trip to Paris. “It was
either there or Cleethorpes,” he told her and Liz breathed a sigh of
relief that he’d picked the right place.
With Liz and Vernon away in
France, Steve used the opportunity to move girlfriend Michelle into
the empty pub. Then Michelle moved her son Ryan in and with Ryan
came Ozzy the puppy, the newest addition to the Coronation Street
cast who steals every scene that he’s in. If that dog doesn’t win
Best Newcomer at next years’ British Soap Awards then I’ll eat my
can of Winalot and howl at the moon.
Glenda Young
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