There are tabloid rumours online this week saying that when Catherine Tyldesley returns from maternity leave to Coronation Street, her character Eva Price will end up in a relationship with newcomer Aidan Connor, played by Shayne Ward.
Now then, Jason's not normally a character I give a lot of thought to but if he is going to lose Eva as the rumours suggest, then I think it's just as it should be. There is only room for one woman in Jason's life - and that's his mum Eileen.
Jason
has tried to fly the nest. But he's never flown very far from the comfort and security of
one of Eileen's home-cooked tin of beans and a freshly washed duvet.
He almost settled down with Violet but it was a relationship that didn't go very far - literally. Violet moved in with Jason and his mum at No. 11.
He married Sarah Platt, on their second attempt as he escaped through a toilet window in the register office at their first wedding. But immediately after his wedding to Sarah, she scarpered to Italy and dumped him. Jason went back to his mum.
He
briefly moved into the flat above the Kabin with Tina, but that didn't
last long. Jason went back to his mum.
And when Eva was pressing him to move into a flat of their own, Jason thought she was having a fling with Tony, his dad, and thumped him one. Eva left for France and Jason, you've guessed it, went back to his mum.
We all know that Jason is brawn over brains although he's been showing more of the latter, running the buider's yard business single-handed. Will this make him any more independent when Eva returns and dumps him? I think not. He'll stay in his rightful place, with Eileen and the comfort of a morning bacon barm. He must never be allowed to leave his mum's side. While the other lodgers at No. 11 come and go with ease - Todd, Sean, Michael - Jason is stuck. He's like George Bailey in
It's a Wonderful Life. No matter how hard he tries to leave (although to be fair, Jason doesn't try that hard), he'll never go anywhere. No. 11 is his home, his security blanket. He just can not leave.
I'm no Freudian analyst but Jason just might have acting out some mother-love fantasy when he had his fling with St Ella of the back room. Stella is only two years younger than Eileen. I'll leave the last word on that to Todd...
What do you think? Should Jason man up and move out?
Glenda Young
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