In these days of female equality, Corrie's quite rightly refused to allow its female stars to be sexually exploited. Sacha Parkinson and Brooke Vincent might pose in bunny girl outfits for magazines, but onscreen, they're buttoned up and well dressed. Even Rosie Webster - who'd drop her skirt the second you waved an Instamatic in her direction - restricts her underwear shots to appearances in her modelling sessions. When she comes down for breakfast in the morning she's wearing nightdresses and gowns.
No such rules exist for the male cast members, however, as we found out last night. In only his fourth episode on the Street, Tommy Duckworth was forced to wander around in his boxer shorts and nothing else. In the process he revealed (a) his rather disappointingly shaved torso (b) his tan line only extended as far as his neck and (c) young male stars exist to be ogled, and the sooner they get their shirts off, the better.
It's actually a long tradition on Corrie. The most usual excuse is "waiting for a shirt to be ironed". For some reason, Gary Windass and David Platt are physically incapable of ironing themselves, and so have to wander round shirtless while they wait for their mums to do it for them. Meanwhile, Nick Tilsley v.2 existed solely to remove his clothes, as demonstrated in the memorable "storyline" where Adam Rickett posed for an art teacher. (Rickett later took this to its logical conclusion by appearing completely naked in the video for his "song", Breathe Again).
The undisputed kings of random shirtlessness, however, were Todd and Jason Grimshaw, who it seemed couldn't wander round the house without stripping to the waist. No wonder Eileen always looked so harassed; she spent most of her days washing their "favourite shirts" so they had something to wear. Even now Todd's left, Jason's continued to pop his top off at the slightest provocation: in fact I'm finding it increasingly difficult to recognise him with his clothes on.
This is all very good, exploiting the men's bodies instead of the women's, but I can't help wondering if it's progress. Surely it would be better if everyone kept their shirts on? Not least because Chesney is now of age, and I have this terrifying thought that we may soon be exposed to his pasty pectorals. Much as I love a bit of male nudity, that would be going too far.
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I disagree - Rosie, Michelle, Sunita and Liz constantly have their clevages on display, and how about Janice in that scene when she pulled the bloke in the Rovers after which I had to have a lie down in a darkened room.
Have to disagree with two words: Candice Stowe. She stood in a window and danced for the public amongst other things. And Michelle Connor's boobs must have their own contract for all the airtime they get.
Bring on Chesney topless. It's legal now!
Can I just point out that the off-screen nudity is also not limited to the females, there plenty of nude/topless shots of Ryan Thomas floating around.
I can't say Rosie is all that well covered up. Many a time she's barely had the boobs covered and her skirts are very often the size of a belt.
What made me gag for years was Liz shoving her tits in everyone's faces at the bar..especially after her boob job and the short skirts..ugh. Also Rosie...looks like a streetwalker ALL THE TIME now. Todd didn't really have a body to look at but Jason was awesummmmy and the new Tommy is pretty easy on the eye, orange or not. Half dressed women - ok...half dressed men...not ok? Really. Lovin it!
I was wondering how long it would be before Tommy did the shirtless bit. Happened even faster than I expected. These guys must get fed up having to go to the gym - let's see a bit of flab and a builder's bum for a change. ;p
There should be far more male nudity on Corrie. Start with Norris and go on to Ken and so forth. We've already had Dev and Kevin, so the middle aged can breast it with the best of them. Anything else is just blatant ageism and I intend to take it to the European Tribunal on Human Rights.
(Don't think you're getting away scot free either, Emily Bishop! We know what a minx you used to be, and all your saucy blouses unbutton down the front. )
Ha ha - gone are the days when we used to see Stan Ogden in his string vest :)
Kylie is the latest of the female squad to give us plenty of cleavage. Whoopeee ;)
More topless Peter Barlow I say.
What could be more delicious than Eddie Windass in his tightie-whities...lol. LMAO!...Frosty the Snowman...hope that darkened room helped!
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