Corrie weekly update: Don’t spit in the hotpot

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The Connors go to war over baby Susie after mediation (or meditation as the continuity announcer had it) failed. Maybe meditation was the way to go, who knows? Anyway, Johnny does a runner with the baby, leaving Eva in a right state and making a tearful plea on national telly to get her baby back. Johnny hides in a hotel room with his granddaughter, he’s in a bad way as he’s not taking his MS medication. He calls Liz and she goes to him, he tells her he loves her and they share a kiss on the bed. But then Liz calls the police, unbeknown to Johnny, who’s busy declaring undying love for Mrs Mc and planning their getaway on the run. When the police arrive, Johnny scarpers, leaving Liz with the baby. He’s later found by the canal, unconscious and is rushed to hospital. When he wakes, it’s not Liz he declares his love to, it’s Jenny - and he gives Liz the cold shoulder for turning him into the cops.

Gemma’s upset this week when she reads in the Weatherfield Gazette that Henry Newton has got engaged. But when he turns up on the Street confessing undying love for Gemma, he tells her that the engagement is something his parents wanted, not him. He says he wants Gemma and no one else and even offers to buy the Rovers Return for her. So serious is he that he puts in an offer on the pub. Rita tells Gemma she’ll have to go on a food hygiene course. “Food hygiene? Don’t spit in the hotpot!” Gemma replies.

Eileen returns this week to find Abi living in her house but she’s less livid about that than she is about finding out Steve’s engaged to Tracy. She and Dev try to stage an intervention with Steve to stop him from marrying Tracy, but he’s too far gone, he tells them, and he can’t disappoint Amy, after all. But is it really Amy that he’s getting married for or does he really love Tracy after all?

Daniel and Sinead go after an unused building on Victoria Street so that Sinead can set up her vintage clothes shop. Brian and Cathy are after the same building to set up a hardware store, but it’s the younger couple who get the building after Cathy tells them they can have it. Too late though, for Brian has already handed in his notice at work!

At the hair salon, Audrey touts for business to get back at Maria. She delivers leaflets around the street offering half price haircuts for anyone who wants one.

And that’s just about that for this week. 

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Corrie weekly update – Weatherfield WhamBam

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While Fiz is away, Sean becomes a domestic goddess and looks after Tyrone and the kids. It’s a nice match and a story I’m enjoying and I wonder why we never saw Sean and Norris chez nous in this way.  Tyrone offers to take Sean out for tea to say thank you. But he takes him out on Valentine’s night, to a swanky restaurant and the waiter thinks they’re a couple. Not only that, they have their photograph taken, much to Sean’s horror as he’s eyeing up the waiter, and the photo goes viral on the restaurant’s social media feed. 

Craig’s OCD spirals out of control this week and he loses out on a date with Bethany as he can’t leave the house. He’s back and forth counting knives, clicks on the oven, straightening things, turning electric sockets on and off, it’s awful to watch. He’s in a real state and I think everyone except those with a glass heart will be sympathising with him. 

Eva lies to Adam and tells him she’s moving away to do a beauty course. She’s not, she just wants to get away somewhere quiet to have the baby she’ll give to Toyah on her return. But Adam won’t let Eva go and he says he’ll go with her so Eva has to pretend she doesn’t like him and dumps him. Then she changes her mind, marches round to his flat to tell him the truth only to find him in bed with some woman he’s met on Weatherfield’s WhamBam app.   

Bethany gets sacked from Tassels when they find out that she’s underage. She sets her mum up on a date with Aidan Connor in the Bistro on Valentine’s night but Sarah says there wasn’t any spark between her and Aidan and she won’t be seeing him again.

Phelan’s problems look set to escalate - and about time too. He’s told that they’ll be building even more houses at The Mill site he and Gary are working on. The only thing is, the lake needs to be drained on the site – the same lake where Andy and Vinny’s bodies are buried.  Oh dear!

Billy the vicar goes through cold turkey in an effort to get off his addiction to painkillers that Adam Barlow has started.  There’s no support from those who Billy works with, not even from the GP, just Eva and her camomile tea.  I’m not buying this storyline at all, I’m afraid.  It’s all having an effect on Summer of course, she’s not coping well at school and after she misses the school bus she’s approached by a kerb crawler before Pat Phelan turns up and scares him off.

Speaking of GPs, a new trainee turns up at the medical centre and it’s a young man called Ali who turns out to be Michelle Connor’s son, the one that’s not Ryan.  Ryan, you’ll remember, was the son she brought up as her own and Alex (now Ali) is the one who is her biological son. He’s come back with an attitude about him that fair upsets Michelle.   

There was a lovely little scene this week between Bethany and Gail, on Valentine’s Day. Bethany asked her grandma which of her dead husbands she liked the best. Gail waxed lyrical about Brian’s nice hair and smile and she also got a mention of Susie Birchall in there too. A nice touch.

And finally this week from her hospital bed, Don Carla-eone summons people to her bedside and dispenses wisdom to Daniel: “Sinead still loves you.” She gives a gift of a red basque and knickers to Sinead: “Seduce him.” And then she dismisses Michelle and Robert who bring news of their engagement: “Go away, you’re boring me now.”  I loved all of this. More please.  And when I say more, I don't mean more hospital scenes. I mean more wonderful Carla lines.

And that’s just about that for this week.
  
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Corrie weekly update – Tinker and Tassels

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Anna’s trial starts this week and first up in the stand is Pat Phelan who lies through his teeth. Second in the stand is Seb, who tells the truth and points the finger of blame at Phelan for telling him to lie about Anna pushing him off his ladder. Will Phelan be found out soon? Let’s hope so. In a wonderful scene in Eileen’s living room, she questions Pat about what he’s been up to and he squirms his way out of it magnificently, but Eileen’s got her gander up now and goes back to visit Anna in jail.

After Chesney and Sinead’s wedding was called off last week, Sinead moves into Maria’s flat. This tiny little flat above the hair salon now houses Maria and little Liam, Kirk and Beth, Craig and Sinead. Chesney, meanwhile, is left on all alone in his house across the road.

PC Craig Tinker’s called to a fracas at Tassels, and that’s not something I’ve ever said in a weekly update before. One of the girls has been beaten by a punter and Craig is aghast when he finds out that Bethany works there too. Not as aghast as we all are, Craigy-boy.  Anyway, now he knows, he determines to keep Bethany safe from harm and her secret, so far is safe.  Bethany then takes it upon herself to keep Gary Windass far from her mum when she finds out Sarah’s considering getting back with her ex.

Eva finds out she’s 17 weeks pregnant. I’m going to repeat that. Eva, unaware for the last four months that there’d been any changes to her body AT ALL, she finds out that she’s 17 weeks pregnant with a baby that’s been growing inside her for the past four months. Did I mention four months? Did I mention how daft this whole flaming thing is? Anyway, all of this means, of course, is that the baby is Aidan’s, not Adam’s. Eva and her new best mate Shona bunker down in the Rovers to decide what to do.

Elsewhere, Simon’s been excluded from school for selling vodka and Tyrone’s kids cut up a load of sample knickers that Sean had sown for Aidan and Alya’s new venture.

By far the best scene of the week was the beer fight in the Rovers when Toyah, jealous of Carla and Peter’s history, pretends to befriend Carla, but then admits to Leanne that it’s all a ruse.  Michelle overhears and chucks a pint at Toyah, who gets soaked not once but twice. It really was very funny indeed, the perfect giggle for a Friday night Corrie in way that Corrie had almost forgotten to do.
And finally this week Gemma wants to do something special for Henry’s birthday and so Liz suggests throwing a party in the pub. She glances over at the picture of Betty on the wall and says it would have been what Betty wanted.  A nice touch, I felt.

And that’s just about that for this week.

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Corrie weekly update - Kabin Fever

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Sally wins against Kirk to be crowned Mayor of Weatherfield this week - and even Kirk votes for her. But during the campaign, Beth hires a fancy dress outfit so that she can be the flower to Kirkeh’s Buzzer Bee.  Which seems a wasteful thing to spend her money on when she’s out of work and skint. But what do I know? Seems I’m out of step with all things Corrie right now and so I’ll apologise now if this week’s update contains scenes of WTF? ETC.

Anyway, Beth goes to the fancy dress shop to return the outfit and pretends she’s never worn it. She wants a full refund but the shopkeeper can tell it’s been worn because it’s covered in food stains, and also because Beth’s picture is in the paper alongside Kirk where she’s wearing the outfit too. An altercation ensues and the cops are called. In comes PC Craig Tinker threatening to arrest his own mum.  Poor Craig though, his obsession with timing and detail is threatening to derail him as his obsessive behaviour takes hold.

Elsewhere this week, the Kabin was sold. See, I told you I was out of step with Corrie because the last thing I remember about this was Rita lying in her hospital bed and Colin brought in the papers for her to sign to sell her flat to.him. We never saw her sign them. We never saw Norris sell the Kabin to him either. Neither were mentioned again apart from a throwaway comment on Wednesday night. But somehow Colin now owns the Kabin and the flat. Norris has a retirement party in the Rovers and Rita is homeless as Colin’s bought her flat too.

Never in all my Corrie-watching years has a storyline moved on so quickly, so ridiculously, so thoughtlessly and with such little regard to us fans. We’re supposed to care about the programme but ITV are making it hard for us to do so when it feels like it’s being thrown together right now. Add to the mix this week that there were at least two fluffed lines (one from Gary Windass and one from Queen Rita herself) that went unchanged. It really, really saddens me to see Corrie like this.

The good news however is that Rita is given the all-clear from her brain tumour. It was benign - and a nation raised its glass to HRH Reet of the Lady Tanner.

Michelle goes to visit Robert in prison and despite the fact that his appearance has changed completely and he’s gone silver grey instead of Captain Scarlet black, she gives it scant mention.  Also changed appearance completely this week is David Platt who invites Shona to live with them all.  David and his new beard and moustache were not commented on once. Come on, Corrie. You know you can do better that this. You’ve had 57 years practice.

Anna gets arrested for pushing Seb off his ladder and wanting the lad dead. She didn’t do it, of course, it’s Phelan’s plan to frame her after he plants one of her ear-rings inside Barlow’s solicitor office. The Corrie comedy coppers arrest her anyway and Anna’s as bitter as you’d expect. Well, you would be too. But there’s worse news for Seb when he’s diagnosed as HIV positive. Faye has a test too and she is free of the virus but Seb now has to come to terms with a life on medication.
Chesney returns from Portugal with son Joseph in tow, who doesn’t say a word, not a word. The lad’s grieving for his mum and having a hard time fitting back into life in the rain and cold of Weatherfield.  Chesney dumps Joseph on an uncaring Sinead while he sorts out a school place for his son. And if that wasn’t bad enough, he then tells Sinead she can look after Joseph while Ches is at work.  Sinead isn’t best pleased.

Gary finds out that Nicola’s pregnant and goes to confront her, asking her if the baby’s his. She says it’s not and then she seeks him out and tells him it is. Make your flamin’ mind up, woman! Gary disappointed me mightily when he told Nicola she would need to get an abortion. Nicola, quite rightly, chucked him out.

And finally this week the wonderful Gemma used her flirting app to find a fella t the bar of the Rover Return. But while Gemma’s in the ladies loo at the Rovers, the lad calls his mate on his phone and says derogatory things about Gemma, things that Peter Barlow overhears.  In a beautifully done scene, Peter tells Gemma not to bother with the lad and then chucks him out of the pub. More of this kind of thing, Corrie.  Please.

And that’s just about that for this week.

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Corrie weekly update - Katy killed and Spice on the Street

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Summer collapses in the ginnel this week after Simon gives her a cigarette to smoke that he’s found. It’s a fag that’s spiked with the drug Spice and Summer’s taken to hospital after she’s found unconscious. When Billy finds out that Simon gave Summer the cigarette, the vicar takes out his anger by punching Peter – hard. It could all lead to Billy and Todd being unable to adopt Summer as their own once the social worker’s called in. Peter tells the social worker it was a heated exchange that he doesn’t want to take any further and he won’t be pressing charges. But Billy can’t live with the thought of what he’s done and confesses all to the cops.

Sinead enjoys a drink in the Bistro with Daniel when Chesney collapses in the kebab shop. Off we go again to Weatherfield General for yet another hospital scene. As Ches is recovering in his hospital bed, shock news comes in from Izzy’s dad to say Katy has died in Portugal. News reaches Chesney who jumps out of bed and onto a plane, but not before Sinead proposes to him. He accepts, they’re engaged, but Daniel throws up and self-harms when he hears the news.

Liz cooks up a plan with Tom Ridley of the brewery to prove to Toyah and Peter that they need her behind the bar. I like this story, a lot, and it works, it gets Toyah to believe that they’d be lost without Liz in their lives (who wouldn’t be?).  And when news comes in that Toyah’s surrogate is pregnant, they ponder the pregnancy news and realise they’re going to need Liz all the more when the baby arrives. Job done. Liz 1, Toyah and Peter 0.

Mary goes a bit mad this week and it wasn’t pretty to see. She’s jealous of son Jude’s wife Angie and turns into Angie’s mother-in-law from hell. Is this the Mary we know and love? Well yes, sadly it is, that nasty streak in her comes to the fore yet again.  Angie tells Jude she’s got a job offer back in South Africa (she hasn’t) and she wants to leave Weatherfield immediately (she does). But it’s Mary she wants to get away from as Mary’s being unbelievably intrusive and overbearing with her son and grandson – Angie’s husband and child.  As the Appleton’s pack to return to South Africa, Mary takes baby George to the flower shop and deliberately returns late in the hope that Jude and Angie will miss their flight. But then baby George takes poorly and there’s another – yes, another – hospital scene. At the hospital, all is well as George just has a viral infection but in a private chat with the nurse, Angie reveals she is suffering post-natal depression. The nurse gives Angie some leaflets to take home with her including one on controlling intake of alcohol. Of course, it’s this leaflet Mary finds later back at the house. Now, Mary thinks her daughter-in-law is an alcoholic as well as an unfit mother and a no-good trollop who has her claws into her son. 

Gina gets her mits on Dev this week as she beds the Devster upstairs in Sally’s house. They do the walk of shame down the stairs only to land slap-bang in the middle of one of Sally’s soirees she’s thrown to talk about her campaign to become mayor. Gina swaps sides and decides to put her weight behind Sally’s campaign rather than Kirk’s, in some lovely comic scenes.  But behind the smile, there’s a debt collector after Gina this week.

And finally this week, we’ve a Phelan that the Corrie villain is on a cruising to a bruising after he gets beaten up by Vinny’s henchman. Phelan also sacks Seb after Anna encourages Seb to ask Phelan for a pay rise, but then Anna gets Seb a job cleaning windows with Tim.  Faye’s wondering what’s going on between her mum and her boyfriend after she catches them whispering together in the kitchen. Oh, she’ll find out soon enough.

And that’s just about that for this week.
 
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Corrie weekly update - Andy’s Alive - and the Jammie Dodger Code

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Jumping right in with the big storyline this week – Andy Carver’s alive! You remember Andy Carver, right? He was the fella who passed himself off as Michael Rodwell’s fake son before Phelan bashed him over the head with a laptop and we all thought he was dead.  But no! Andy’s still very much alive – bruised and battered and sporting a very tidy beard for someone who Phelan’s had locked up in a cellar for months.

Elsewhere this week, Rita has Gemma arrested after the Kabin gets broken into and money goes missing from Rita’s purse. None of this is Gemma’s fault – it was her horrible mates from the estate who nicked the sweets from the Kabin after letting themselves into the shop. And Gemma didn’t nick Rita’s money either, she loaned it to Gina who is deep in debt. Poor Rita though, she can’t remember any of this until much later. Fortunately for Gemma, Rita gets her freed from the nick but back at the flat the two of them have a ding-dong and Gemma’s so upset that Rita mistrusted her that she storms off to her room to pack her bags and leave.

Chesney continues with his panic attacks after the Bistro stabbing and has trouble leaving the house to go outdoors.  So when Fiz leaves Hope and Ruby with him to look after, unaware of how much Chesney is suffering from anxiety attacks, it can only end badly, I’m sure.

Jenny Bradley isn’t best pleased this week when Eva announces she wants a double wedding for her and Aidan with Jenny and Johnny.  There was a lovely scene in the factory when Kirk wondered why Jenny was so upset, pointing out that Eva’s beautiful and Jenny less so. “Eva’s Man United and you’re Weatherfield County.” Jenny’s face, as you can imagine, was a picture.  She does, however, ask Gemma to be her bridesmaid but after the Rita fandangle above, I’m not sure if that offer still stands. Jenny is hugely protective of Rita and has nothing good to say about Gemma’s thieving ways, even if she has been proved innocent.

As Norris and Mary prepare for their sham wedding next week in order to win the Mr and Mrs competition, Mary’s son Jude says he’s coming over for the bash, all the way from South Africa. Mary hasn’t the heart to tell her son that the wedding’s for show, not love.

In other news, Alya and Luke become the latest couple without chemistry to get it together and Kate’s not happy about her flatmates’ relationship. Frankly, neither am I.

And finally this week, Gary’s on his way to Ukraine to start his high-danger job protecting VIPs and what-nots. He leaves a bunch of letters with Alya (Alya?) in case of his death and asks her to pass them on to Sarah and the family.  But Alya drops the letters in Roy’s Rolls and Shona finds the one addressed to Sarah and hands it on for her to read.  Sarah rushes to Streetcars, demands that Gary’s taxi to the airport be delayed so that she can talk to Gary and find out what’s going on. And in a wonderful scene, using the CCC (Cabbie’s Code of Confidentiality) and the code words “This is Steve to Tim. We’ve run out of Jammie Dodgers”, Tim pulls the cab off the road feigning engine trouble.  Sarah catches up with Gary who tells her the truth about the danger of the job – but whether he’ll fly off or not remains to be seen.

Just a little word here to say that as it’s my birthday next week I may not be here with an update as I’m going to my favourite place on the Yorkshire seaside and then inland to the countryside for a few days.

And that’s just about that for this week.

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