Coronation Street Blog: The Phelan Fandom

Some time ago I blogged about Twitter’s love for Pat Phelan and actor Connor McIntyre. Us Brits love a villain and we’ve had one of the best ever in fiendish Phelan over the past year or so . Social media has been a great way of celebrating Pat’s evil, and Connor’s genius in playing it. It brings Corrie and their fans together and the show has a great social media team working hard to keep us children of the internet age engaged, even when the show isn’t on.

Corrie's Twitter

Now as you may know I’m not big on spoilers. One of my big criticisms of the last producer before Kate Oates arrived was that the promos and spoilers out in the press and on TV gave every punchline to every major story away, and there were very few surprises left to enjoy. But Twitter has been awash with some great photos and Tweets about the location filming that took place this week involving some of our Corrie favourites, including Connor McIntyre. The Manchester Evening News reports that cast and crew have been spotted in the fishing town of Whitehaven in Cumbria, and Sue Cleaver, Corrie's Eileen Grimshaw has Tweeted about being there.

I won’t speculate what could be going on in Whitehaven, but I’m looking forward to seeing it whenever they broadcast the scenes. What I wanted to mention is the ever growing fandom for Connor McIntyre, who I think I’m safe in calling a friend of The Blog. People in their droves have been flocking down to the filming locations to try and spot their favourite baddie. Some of our blogging team met Connor on the Corrie cobbles recently and he couldn’t have been more welcoming, it was like we’d all known him for years. He was busy filming that day but still took the time out to show us round and take selfies as we tried (and failed) to get some juicy Corrie secrets out of him.

Corrie bloggers getting some tips on hiding bodies

I had a quick look at Twitter earlier having read the M.E.N. article and I was delighted to see Connor has been bringing smiles to the faces of other Corrie fans too.