Corrie's Clarissa real life blog

Actress Alexandra Boyd is doing a grand job on Coronation Street as flame haired Clarissa Mason, soon to be ex-wife of Harry the bookie.

And Alexandra has her own blog right here, it's excellent and well worth a read. She's turning up on ITV1's Loose Women on Monday 21st July and you can find out more about her on her blog here.

To have a look at more Corrie actors' official websites, click here for a list.

Steve McDonald gurn of the week

Want to see more of Coronation Street's Steve's funny faces? Click here.

Coronation Street to get its first lesbian

Coronation Street has its fair share of gay men in it now and a transsexual too so featuring a lesbian has been long overdue.

According to the News of the World, Corrie's first lesbian will turn up on the cobbles soon. You can read the full story here although my money's still on Gail and Eileen getting putting their differences to one side and getting along, um, just a bit better.

Want to read more about the representation of homosexuality in Corrie? Click here

Suranne Jones to return to Coronation Street?

A "Corrie mole" has told Teletext that Suranne Jones could be back on the cobbles as Karen McDonald. You can read the rumour online here.

Kate Ford and her baby in Hello! Magazine

Kate Ford, who played Coronation Street's Tracy Barlow, has given birth to a baby boy, Otis.

Mother and son are looking good and are pictured in a Hello! Magazine photospread this week. You can read more and see pictures of Kate and the baby online at the Celebrity Baby Scoop website right here.

Is Roy Cropper turning into Hilda Ogden?

Here's a little picture of actor David Neilson, who plays Roy Cropper, on set filming for Coronation Street. He's trying to keep out of the rain - nice look Roy! Hayley would be proud. Want to join the Roy Cropper fan club? Click here.

For more informal pictures of the cast, have a look at Rex Features.

Where have you seen Molly's Aunty Pam before?

Queries are flooding in today after Aunty Pam's proving what a star she is on Coronation Street. Corrie fans are asking where they've seen the actress who plays Aunty Pam before. Well, the actress who plays Pam Hobsworth is Kate Anthony and she's appeared in The Bill, Holby City, Where the Heart is and also EastEnders.

Want to know where you've seen Tony Gordon's henchman before? Click here.

Steve McDonald gurn of the week

It's not so much a gurn this week, it's more of a shell-shocked (or should that be Michelle-shocked?) blood-stained, lip bleeding face after Steve got slapped behind the bar of the Rovers. And that's always a painful place.

For last week's gurn have a look here.

And if you have better Steve McGurns you can send to the blog, do email in.

Corrie's Roy and Ken get arrested

Coronation Street's got its share of villains and ne'er do wells but Roy Cropper and Ken Barlow are known for being salt of the earth and all round good eggs. Salty eggs, for short. So why are they being arrested by the cops? Click here to find out.

John Stape: What's the point?

He came onto the cobbles, teaching English Lit to Sally and patronising Fiz. He whimpered by the whiteboard in the classroom every time Rosie came into class and if Kev Webster hadn't thrown him to the cobbles and knocked seven bells out of his insipid little face, I might have had to do it myself. And now he's coming back! Next week! What's the point of John Stape? Anyone know?

Of all the folk they could bring back to Coronation Street, why not this well loved character or even this one (my fave!)

Inside Soap Awards 2008, voting now open

Voting is now open for the Inside Soap Awards 2008 and you can get your mouse clicking and your finger voting here.

Don't forget to vote for Coronation Street in the National Television Awards too. Voting is open until August 1.

Coronation Street Weekly Update, July 14 2008

Greetings my little cherubs and welcome to another weekly update. It’s been a rather dull week on the cobbles this week but it’s been all go in the Streetcars office where there’s new drivers wanted and it's Eileen - 0, Rubik's Cube - 1.
And so, without any further ado, here we go with this week’s Coronation Street update.

Steve returned from Spain this week and proposed to Michelle Sinead Connor. If this wedding goes ahead it’ll be the fourth for Stevie Mc. His first was for money, the second for a bet, the third could have been for nothing more than fantastic dialogue from a bride wielding stilettos as a weapon. And the fourth, if there is a fourth, will be to cover a guilty secret. It’s no wonder the boy keeps on gurning. In the smokers’ shelter in the yard of the pub, Steve asked Michelle to be his McBride and the lady with the shiny hair, she said yes. But then she changed her mind when she found out from Lloyd that Steve had just proposed because Lloyd had coaxed him into by way of a prank. Michelle doesn’t yet know that Lloyd’s plan was to cover the lies about Steve’s night with Becky but no doubt this will hit the girl soon, these things always do.

Anyway, talking about the smokers’ shelter at the Rovers, it’s become the new Rovers back room. All manner of secrets and lies are now being whispered within its fag-end covered walls. Where the old back room at the pub used to be the sanctuary of choice for a tantrum or tears, now it’s to the smokers' shelter they head. Where once secrets were shared over a cuppa and a damp tablecloth, now they’re being spilled by women of a certain age shivering under the night sky in a too-tight top dragging on a sly Lambert & Butler.

Another proposal might be forthcoming when Jack convinces Tyrone that Molly wants to get wed. She doesn’t, or at least, she hasn’t said as much, but Jack wants these two young ‘uns together just like the rest of us do so it can only be a matter of episodes before they tie the knot and Margi Clarke returns as tacky Jackie Dobbs for the bash and free booze.

In the corner shop, Dev’s got too much time on his hands and draws up plans to rearrange his stock. Molly tells him to let things be but he’s already cleared all the biscuits off the shelves. This leaves Ken and Deirdre more room as they battle out a domestic in front of dried prunes.


Yes, the battling Barlows are at it again. Ken goes to the University of Manchester Alumni reunion where he met up with his old Uni pals. “Clarkie!” he yells at another old geezer. “Marion!” he leers at the female librarian who taught him how to thumb a hardback. Yes, the class of 1961 gathered to reminisce and Ken’s nervous twitch returned when Clarkie told him he had a farmhouse in the Languedoc. Ken’s trump cards couldn’t compete. He’s got a daughter in jail; a mother in law in the spare room and a new beige jumper still in the packet, so he kept very quiet about life back at home. He then told Deirdre he was handing in his notice at Roy’s and it was left to Blanche to voice the real reasons, that Ken was embarrassed about not having reached the same dizzy heights as his old Uni mates. Deirdre was so upset she stuck out her paunch, pouted and then went to her happy place.

Over at Underworld, a cleavage with Rosie Webster behind it bounced and jiggled its way from the factory office to her dad’s garage to steal Kev’s customer list to give to Tony Gordon. I had to look away from the telly, I really did. “Put ‘em away, dear,” I whimpered at the screen. Yours sincerely, offended of Oldham.

Anyway, Tony’s got Rita wrapped around his little finger and it’s wrong - surely Rita would see past someone as scheming as Tony Gordon? He shows her the show flat up in the sky. It’s closer to heaven than Rita might like, especially at her age. Kev’s in uproar as Tony brings in a henchman to put the frighteners on him and he starts a campaign to get Kevin really peeved. Peeved; it’s my word of the week. Try it, it’s nice.

Kevin might have more problems too as his missus isn’t happy living in their new house. There she was – picture it if you will. Sally, feet up in the conservatory, cuppa in one hand, biscuit in t’other, Sugar Plum Fairy on the CD and a mountain of cigarette ends on the conservatory roof. They’re all from Theresa next door who’s been flinging her fag-ends onto Sally’s roof. Sally’s not happy and storms round there to give her new neighbours what for. She had a good mentor, did Sally.

And in the salon this week, Duffy’s CD was on rotation again. Yes, again. Come on, Corrie, give it a rest. I mean it’s a decent CD, it’s good, but not that good. Do what Sean and Marcus planned to do and listen to the real deal, Dusty in Memphis. Now that’s worth a spin.

Tune in next week to find out how Eileen’s getting on with the Rubik’s cube.

And that’s just about that for this week.

Coronation Street writers this week were Peter Whalley, Chris Fewtrell, Mark Burt and Carmel Morgan.

Glenda
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Coronation Street actors who return as someone else

I like it when Coronation Street keeps continuity in its characters. That's why I was over the moon to read about Kenneth Cope returning after 42 years as Jed Stone (or Sunny Jim as we know and love him).

So I'm a bit confused why this actor who once played Dev's dad in Corrie is returning as Dev's business partner. Ey up!

Shilpa Shetty and Coronation Street - the truth!

Rumours abounded a few weeks ago that Bollywood actress and ex-Big Brother housemate Shilpa Shetty would be turning up in Coronation Street. However, a Coronation Street spokeswoman has now confirmed that Shilpa Shetty had meetings with the Corrie team but didn't get as far as auditions.

However, Corrie will feature a new Indian couple called Prem and Nina Mandal, with Prem appearing as Dev’s business partner. Nina is shown to be a former Bollywood actress, who Dev was obsessed with when he was young. Dev and Nina go on to have an affair, but the plot thickens when Nina’s daughter Tara appears on the Street. Dev shifts his affections to Tara as she looks exactly like Nina did when she was young and glamourous.

The source for this story is here. I always credit my online sources, I'm good like that. Not everyone does, you know and I'm getting a bit peeved. Some people rip stuff, ideas, links off this not for profit, fan blog and repost it, for payment, elsewhere. Shame on you.

Is Rosie Webster the Street's biggest slapper?

"Put 'em away, dear!" I yelled at the screen t'other night when Rosie Webster's cleavage threatened to spill over the cobbles. It fair put me off my barm cake. I don't know what the wardrobe department are dressing her but they're doing a fab job of getting it so right it can only be wrong. Rosie's in danger of turning into the Street slapper but with a mother like Sally as a role model, how could she not?