Sunday, 9 October 2011

Hollyoaks actress joins Coronation Street

Elize du Toit, who played Izzy Davies in Hollyoaks, will be turning up in Coronation Street as Doctor Carter's old flame, Jenny Eclaire. 

The People reports that "sparks fly" when Jenny turns up on a double-date with Tina and Matt – minus her boyfriend.
Things then go from bad to worse when Matt and Jenny start laughing about old times together. Tina is ­distraught when she finds out they had been an item and slept together. The row gets out of control when Matt ­criticises Tina’s scruffy dress sense. She ends up pouring a pint over his head and dumping the GP.

South African born Elize moved to England in 1994 and left school with four As at A Level. After university she spent four years in Hollyoaks and has since appeared in The Bill, Casualty and Waking the Dead.

Elize's official website is here.

10 comments:

Tvor said...

Sounds pretty dull actually. I don't think the good doctor is long for our screens. He's never been more than a spare part and they never gave him anything to do.

John McE said...

Jenny Eclaire? Have they never heard of the comedienne of the same name?

Anonymous said...

I haven't?

Humpty Dumpty said...

Jenny Eclair, comedienne with black rimmed glasses, very popular in the alternative eighties. Still around and I like her. If this is an oversight on Corrie's part, she'll be laughing her socks off - think of the publicity! Just shows TPTB live in a different world! Quick phone call to her agent and a re-write to make it look intentional.

Getsomeproperwriters said...

How on earth could they use Jenny Eclair's name without her say so? She's still on TV programmes herself (and very funny).

They had better make her Jenny Doughnut - the character would fit right in to the Weatherfield nutritional black hole then.

Cobblestone said...

Because comedienne and Grumpy Old Woman Jenny Eclaire has not, and cannot, copyright her name. There are bound to be a few Ken Barlows or Audrey Robertses out there in real life, and I personally know a Steve McDonald.

Frosty the Snowman said...

Sounds a very boring story to me. Will give sourpuss Tina a chance to be nasty to yet another person - double yawns all round. Shame about the doc, another good character wasted.

Anonymous said...

I think the doc is boring, nothing but a 'pretty face', don't like Tina, think she and the 'doc' have about as much on-screen charisma as Tina and Graeme, which is not saying much.
Hopefully, hope he slips away as easily as he arrived.

Anonymous said...

URGH!!! she doesn't look as if she has woken up from the dead yet!

Anonymous said...

Mrs Eclaire (her mother): 'Are you staying in tonight dear and watching the telly'?

Jenny Eclaire: 'Maybe I might mother for a change, but first I think I'll put my shoes on and 'pop-out' for half an hour'.

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...

Our Top 10 Blog Posts in last 7 days (automatically updated)

Click on a name to find out more about your Corrie favourites!

alan halsall alex bain alexandra boyd alison king alison sinclair amber kalirai amy barlow andy whyment angela griffin anna windass anne kirkbride antony cotton audrey roberts barbara knox becky mcdonald behind the scenes bet lynch betty driver betty williams beverley callard bill webster blanche hunt brooke vincent carla connor charlie condou cherylee houston chesney brown chris gascoyne ciaran mccarthy classic corrie clothes worn on coronation street competition coronation street musical coronation street weekly update coronation street weekly updates craig charles curly watts damon rochefort david neilson david platt debbie rush deirdre barlow Dennis Tanner dev alahan eileen derbyshire eileen grimshaw elsie tanner emily bishop faye windass fiz stape flaming nora Gail McIntyre gail platt gary windass gary's army diaries gay men in coronation street hayley cropper helen worth hilda ogden izzy armstrong jack p shepherd jane danson jason grimshaw jennie mcalpine jimmi harkishin job vacancies at coronation street julie carp julie goodyear julie hesmondhalgh julie jones kate ford katherine kelly Katy Cavanagh keith duffy ken barlow kevin kennedy kevin webster kylie platt kylie turner kym marsh kym ryder leanne battersby lloyd mullaney malcolm hebden maria connor michael le vell michelle connor michelle keegan mikey north mikey north Natalie Gumede newton and ridley nick tilsley nigel havers nigel pivaro norris cole pat phoenix paula lane peter barlow pets on coronation street pictures of the coronation street set rita sullivan rosie webster rovers return rovers return barmaids roy cropper roys rolls ryan connor ryan thomas sally webster sally dynevor sally webster sally whittaker sam aston samia smith sean tully shobna gulati simon barlow simon gregson sophie webster stella price steve huison steve mcdonald streetcars sue cleaver sue johnston sue nicholls sunita alahan sylvia cropper sylvia goodwin terry duckworth the kabin tina mcintyre todd grimshaw tommy duckworth tony warren tours of coronation street tracy barlow tyrone dobbs vicky binns watch coronation street online weatherfield weekly update wendi peters which coronation street character are you? william roache