Hello and welcome to Wedding Week in Weatherfield. It's a nice day for a fight wedding! Eva certainly hasn't been idol (geddit) and her Evengeance is coming to a head. But her plans come a little unstuck when Maria gives a poor excuse for not turning up to the nuptials, and then Aidan, after Kate spouts an Aesop's Morality Tale at him, turns up in the pub and confesses to cheating on Eva, telling her how much he loves her and hates himself. He tells all about the affair: who it was with, how long it went on for, who else knew, and then dramatically leaves, telling her he'll be waiting for her at the altar.
Prior to this, Eva was still plotting with Adam, handing over the keys to the factory for him to give to Matthew Singh. Unbeknownst to anyone but Toyah, who has bonded with Eva over Vengeancegate, Eva forgives her beau, tries to get Adam to call off the factory takeover and decides to get married for realsies.
I did wonder who's doing everyone's hair given that Maria starts plotting her her own revenge plan and Audrey knows what a Corrie wedding is gonna be like and is thus hunkered down at Grasmere Drive. Toyah spots Maria lurking, Mrs Danoers-style, in an upstairs window at the wedding venue, and manages to lock her in a bathroom, but nothing stops a Maria scorned and she escapes, revealing not just to Aidan, but to all the wedding guests that THERE IS NO BABY! Eva, Eva, Eva, don't you know that before you embark on a journey of revenge, you dig two graves?
Evil Will turns up like a bad penny and inveigles his way into being Michelle's +1 at the wedding, taking off his glasses every time he's making an evil plan. Not satisfied with being her arm candy for the day, he follows Michelle from his car, espying her going to the prison to see Robert, andhe puts a white rose on her car. Will! I know you're evil and all that, but you can't leave a Lancashire lass the symbol of Yorkshire. It turns out that Michelle leaves a white rose every time she goes to the beach where they scattered Ruairi's ashes and she is understandably upset, thinking her stalker must have followed her to the seaside. Michelle makes her own confession, that she and Robert are still together.
From Mr and Mrs Connor to Mr and Mrs Weatherfield as Norris and Mary get stuck into the final of the Mr and Mrs competition, and Norris into the croissants. Mary meets Colin, head of marketing and ex-newsagent, whose ex-wife has turned his string of paper shops into yoghurteries - in Oldham! Mary hasn't been on TV before but she was in the audience when her mother was on It's A Knockout dressed as a twelve foot milkmaid whilst filling giant milk-pails. Oh, if only it were available on youtube. Vic/Jim/Colin gives Mr and Mrs Cole preferential treatment, pushing them into the middle of the promo pic and sending a rival Mrs off to get a scotch egg rather than spend any time at the make up station. What's his game? What's on the end of the stick, Colin?
Meanwhile, Gemma and Jenny Bradley are in the hospital with Rita, although Mrs Tanner herself has gone walkies, finding a man playing some old war songs on a Bon Tempi and she does some excellent harmonies on Let The Rest Of The World Go By. Her illness stops Johnny and Jenny getting married but she gets her diagnosis, the one the tabloids spoiled for us several weeks ago - Rita has a brain tumour.
Hope you enjoy the rest of the week on t'cobbles!
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