Coronation Street Weekly Update, October 25 2010

Greetings and welcome to another weekly update, chock full of gossip and goings on direct from the cobbles. Oh ok, direct from my laptop which isn’t on the cobbles, it’s on my knees. And I’m sitting on the floor in front of the telly listening to the wireless on Radio 6. And so, without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

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Graeme starts the week swearing revenge at David for running him down and trying to kill him. Trouble is, David says he can’t remember anything about it and when he collapses as he’s about to go to court, the docs say David might be epileptic. I’ve long thought David was evil-eptic but maybe there’s no cure for that one just yet. So then Graeme, despite Tina’s protestations that David’s guilty of attempted murder, thinks that his mate Dave might be telling the truth after all.

Over at the Websters, dozy Rosie flashes her puppies at Jason when she ropes him in to repair the damage she’s caused when she set her sausage on fire. Jason’s hoping Rosie will set his sausage on fire and when she mentions that she needs a lift to a lingerie shoot, he jumps at the chance to be her escort. At the modelling agency, they’re a man down as the male model hasn’t turned up and in steps Jason, aka Mr Gay Weatherfield, who strips off, poses and pouts with Rosie for a lingerie advert shoot.

At Roy’s Rolls, Kylie nicks a hundred quid from the till and does a runner to Ayia Napa on her jollies with a mate. She leaves little Max behind which means Becky gets to play mammy while Kylie raves it up in a foam party off her head. I’ve never been to Ayia Napa so I’m just presuming, that’s all. But while she’s away, the Social Services come calling, wanting to see Kylie and little Max in their new home. Becky does the only thing she knows how, she lies through her teeth and pretends to be Kylie, fibbing to the social worker that she’s her own sister. Mind you, this doesn’t stop the social worked demanding to see Aunty Becky in due course.

In the Rovers, Llloyd gives Maria a word of advice and warns her to stay away from Chris as he likes to beat women for fun. Maria has the good sense to nip her budding romance with Chris but he’s a pair of trizers and Maria’s Maria so it’s odds on these two will end up getting together no doubt. And then she’ll be sorry.

Elsewhere this week, Molly and Tyrone bring baby Jack’s christening forward so that big Jack can attend, you know, before he does. Hatches, matches and dispatches. It’s what life’s all about.

And there’s a bouquet of flowers delivered and left on the steps at Underworld. Eddie spies them and nicks them and gives them to Anna telling her they’re from the bottom of his heart when they’re really from the bottom of the factory steps. Anna’s over the moon with the lovely flowers until she opens the card that’s tucked inside and reads Rest in Peace. Anna bashes Eddie with the flowers and runs after him down the Street berating him for his cheapskate ways while John Stape pales when he finds out about the flowers. The factory girls all think they could be a nasty prank relating to Tony Gordon but John fears that those carnations are for Colin, buried under the cement.

And that's just about that for this week.

Coronation Street writers this week were David Lane, Simon Crowther, Chris Fewtrell and Damon Rochefort.

Glenda Young
Blogging away merrily at http://flamingnora.blogspot.com/

Lucky winners announced in our Corrie flying ducks competition

Ten lucky blog readers have won a set of iconic Coronation Street flying ducks in the latest competition here on the blog.  We had a phenomenal response, so thank you to everyone who entered!

Ten winners have been chosen at random and they are as follows: Karen Ferry, Greg Robertson, Paul Coffell, Mary Gaughan, Marie Harley, Barbara Ward, Karol Bullard, Elfie Warren, Barry Nicol and Darren Fitzgerald.  The ducks will be flying out to you all, tomorrow.

The answers to the questions we asked in the competition are as follows:

Q1: In Coronation Street, who put up Hilda Ogden's muriel?
A: Eddie Yeats

Q2: What is the name of this recliner chair, pictured on the left, which is available on the Harveys the Furniture Store website?
A: Santiago

With huge thanks to the lovely people at Harveys the Furniture Store for this competition. Don't forget to check out the special competition on the Harveys website where you can win a day on the Coronation Street set. Have a look at it here.

Sexy pictures of Rosie Webster

Ok, stop now. You've emailed. You've tweeted. You've begged. But I'm not going to give you the sexy Rosie Webster pictures you want. Yes, you. You know who you are. We're not that kind of blog. All I'm going to do is point you in the right direction for your sexy pictures of Helen Flanagan as Coronation Street's Rosie Webster.

Try Tarty Doris.

50 Years Of Corrie In 50 Days – 1966

Day 6 of our 50 day countdown of Coronation Street - written by blogger Sunny Jim.

By 1966, Coronation Street wasn’t just being shown in the UK. Australia had been showing the programme since 1963 and by 1966 it was more popular there than back home. Channel 9 sent an invitation for a party from Coronation Street to visit fans in Australia. Granada accepted the invitation and a group was put together consisting of Doris Speed (Annie Walker), Arthur Leslie (Jack Walker) and Pat Phoenix (Elsie Tanner) from the cast along with producer/writer H.V. Kershaw and Norman Frisby from the press office.

The group visited Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide and they were mobbed everywhere they went. They visited several local Coronation Streets, presented awards, appeared on numerous chat shows and even performed a sketch specially written by Kershaw. Driving back to the airport in Adelaide, Doris and Pat wept as 50,000 people turned out to wave them farewell.

For a while Ken Barlow had played the role of devoted husband and father but in 1966 he had his head turned by glamorous reporter Jackie Marsh who he’d met when she interviewed his brother David. He started to meet her behind Valerie’s back but Elsie Tanner saw them kissing and warned him not to throw away his family. He told her to keep her nose out and arranged to go away with Jackie, telling Valerie that he was attending a conference. However, when Valerie packed him a lunch for the journey, he realised he couldn’t betray her and ended the affair.

Ken thought he’d got away with it but two months later Valerie revealed that she’d known all about it and she left him, taking the twins with her to her parents in Scotland. She returned a month later having forgiven him and Ken promised to be more attentive.

Also in 1966: Bet Lynch and Ray Langton join the cast; Sunny Jim returns; Len Fairclough and Annie Walker stand for the council and Len wins on toss of a coin; Ena is fined £2 for shoplifting; Paul Cheveski falls in canal; David and Irma Barlow buy the corner shop.