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should be fun ;o)
CORONATION Street chiefs have signed up a Bad Girl star to play Les
Battersby's new love.
Actress Wendi Peters, evil "Podger" Pam Jolly in the tough prison
drama, should have no problems acting out her Corrie character, Cilla Brown.
In an ironic twist, the saucy red-head will also have a murky past
just like criminal Pam.
She arrives in the show as cocky Fiz Brown's mum and takes up a job
pulling pints at the Rovers' rival pub the Weatherfield Arms.
Downtrodden Les, played by Bruce Jones, is still heartbroken at being
dumped by wife Janice (Vicky Entwistle). When Cilla makes a play for him, he
cannot believe his luck.
A Corrie source said: "Les is like a born-again teenager with Cilla
and becomes very defensive of her.
"He believes she is definitely the woman for him and acts the perfect
gentleman with her in an effort to be a romantic.
"He starts to behave so unlike Les by opening doors for her and
insisting they link arms whenever they are out together.
"But just when everything seems to be running smoothly there is a bolt
from the blue." When Fiz (Jenny McAlpine) finds out Les is dating her mum,
who she despises, she decides to tell him some home truths.
Fiz reveals that her mum gave her up to be fostered and moves from man
to man, bleeding them all dry.
The teenager also says that before she was given away, her childhood
consisted of traipsing from one home to another. But Les is so happy Cilla
has spiced up his barren sex life, he refuses to hear anything bad about
her.
The insider said: "Fiz just simmers and simmers as their relationship
gets stronger before hitting Les with all her mum's background.
"She tells him that she was, and still is, a hooker. She's also a
druggie who in the past has sold her furniture to get a quick fix. He's
trying to take all that in when she reveals her mum's a thief as well who
always steal from the men in life.
"There are some great comic lines in the scenes. On one occasion Fiz
warns Les to lock all his rare Status Quo records away just in case she
tries to nick them.
"And she says that when her mother worked as a stripper, her
professional name was Lulu, spelt L double O, L double O because her career
went down the toilet years ago."
But Les is so besotted with his new love and the way she pampers him
in bed, he thinks Fiz is lying.
Corrie bosses are delighted Wendi has signed a contract with them.
She made a huge impact when she starred in Bad Girls two years ago as
Pam Jolly.
Her evil character was feared on the prison wing.
The source added: "We were delighted to sign Wendi for the part.
"She has already started recording the scenes and they are classic
Coronation Street.
"Cilla is a great character and despite what is said about her past,
she has a really funny part to her.
"Viewers will love one scene when she tells Les that she loves
watching a man devour his beer like Les does, gulping it down in big
mouthfuls.
"She says she can't bear to watch the kind of blokes who sip at their
beer. Les thinks he has died and gone to heaven to have such an
understanding woman."
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wooooooooooo saaahhhhhhhhh
Diane Johnston
Rival pub??? whatever happened to the Flying Horse? it's not been
mentioned for years and lately Janice has mentioned the Turk's Arms or
Turk's Head arms or some such as in "we can always go to the...."
Diane
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Renee
"Sima" <x...@x.com> wrote in message
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> Actress Wendi Peters, evil "Podger" Pam Jolly in the tough prison
> drama, should have no problems acting out her Corrie character, Cilla
Brown.
Cilla Brown? Should be a lorra lorra laffs, then. (Not).
> In an ironic twist, the saucy red-head will also have a murky past
> just like criminal Pam.
How is this a 'twist' and why is it 'ironic'? Our old friend the demented
Granada copywriter has been at the dictionary of cliches again.
> She arrives in the show as cocky Fiz Brown's mum and takes up a job
> pulling pints at the Rovers' rival pub the Weatherfield Arms.
>
> Downtrodden Les, played by Bruce Jones, is still heartbroken at
being
> dumped by wife Janice (Vicky Entwistle). When Cilla makes a play for him,
he
> cannot believe his luck.
Nor can he see her dog, or the white stick.
> A Corrie source said: "Les is like a born-again teenager with Cilla
> and becomes very defensive of her.
>
> "He believes she is definitely the woman for him and acts the
perfect
> gentleman with her in an effort to be a romantic.
To be 'a romantic'? This should be interesting.
> "He starts to behave so unlike Les by opening doors for her and
> insisting they link arms whenever they are out together.
>
> "But just when everything seems to be running smoothly there is a
bolt
> from the blue."
Les and Cilla are hit by lightning? One can but live in hope.
When Fiz (Jenny McAlpine) finds out Les is dating her mum,
> who she despises, she decides to tell him some home truths.
Katherine will get you for this! I think you'll find it's 'whom' she
despises. And what 'home truths' would they be? Does the copywriter
moonlight by writing articles for Women's Realm by any chance?
> Fiz reveals that her mum gave her up to be fostered and moves from
man
> to man, bleeding them all dry.
She's a phlebotomist? Does Les *have* any blood to be bled dry? And if this
is all figurative, exactly what stash of treasure does Les have that Cilla
could steal from him?
> The teenager also says that before she was given away, her childhood
> consisted of traipsing from one home to another. But Les is so happy Cilla
> has spiced up his barren sex life, he refuses to hear anything bad about
> her.
> The insider said: "Fiz just simmers and simmers as their
relationship
> gets stronger before hitting Les with all her mum's background.
The 'source'? The 'insider'? Is this information really that top-secret???
What on earth do the Granada people take us for? No doubt soon we'll all be
'reeling' at some 'shocking revelation', before 'picking ourselves up,
dusting ourselves off and getting on with our lives'. It makes you want to
never stop throwing up.
> "She tells him that she was, and still is, a hooker.
How about: "She tells him that she is a hooker"? What's all this "was, and
still is" bol*ocks?
She's also a
> druggie who in the past has sold her furniture to get a quick fix. He's
> trying to take all that in when she reveals her mum's a thief as well who
> always steal from the men in life.
>
> "There are some great comic lines in the scenes.
Ooh, I can't wait: emotional abuse of children, prostitution, drug
addiction - and some 'great comic lines'!! Wow, Granada is so pushing the
boat out!
On one occasion Fiz
> warns Les to lock all his rare Status Quo records away just in case she
> tries to nick them.
Fiz is trying to save Les from Fiz herself, or from Fiz's mum? Please make
these things clear, Granada, you know how important they are to us. Heaven
forfend that we go to sleep at night thinking that Fiz is the potential
thief rather than her mum. (Who is no doubt a 'tart with a heart' deep
down).
> "And she says that when her mother worked as a stripper, her
> professional name was Lulu, spelt L double O, L double O because her
career
> went down the toilet years ago."
The old jokes are still the best, aren't they? Aren't they???
> But Les is so besotted with his new love and the way she pampers him
> in bed, he thinks Fiz is lying.
>
> Corrie bosses are delighted Wendi has signed a contract with them.
> The source added: "We were delighted to sign Wendi for the part.
I get the impression that Corrie bosses are 'delighted' about all this.
> "She has already started recording the scenes and they are classic
> Coronation Street.
Surely that's for us to decide?
> "Cilla is a great character and despite what is said about her past,
> she has a really funny part to her.
I wonder whether we'll get to see her 'funny part' before the watershed?
> "Viewers will love one scene when she tells Les that she loves
> watching a man devour his beer like Les does, gulping it down in big
> mouthfuls.
Call me humourless, but I can't see myself cracking up over a woman telling
a man that she likes to watch him drink beer in big mouthfuls. Is this the
'classic Corrie' that the Corrie bosses are insisting this will be? If so, I
fear for the show's immediate future, I really do.
> "She says she can't bear to watch the kind of blokes who sip at
their
> beer. Les thinks he has died and gone to heaven to have such an
> understanding woman."
Why not put us all out of our misery and get rid of Battersby and his
pseudo-lumpen idiosyncrasies once and for all. Bruce Jones has never once
delivered a line that could be construed as having even the most tenuous
relationship with the art of acting, and to kiss goodbye to him would be a
mercy for all concerned. I really do think that when they're basing what
they claim to be "classic Corrie" on plotlines involving Bruce Jones,
something is seriously wrong with the Street. I simply can't watch any scene
with him in it any more, and will be happy to turn off whenever he's on in
the future. As for the copywriter who pens these little blurbs for the
newspaper, frankly, he or she should have his or her wordprocessor rammed
firmly up his or her fundament. How talentless shites like that can land
jobs with Granada is anyone's guess - yet more evidence, if it were needed,
of the general dumbing down process that plagues British language, culture
and education.
your friend,
Renee
TC
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> She arrives in the show as cocky Fiz Brown's mum and takes up a job
>pulling pints at the Rovers' rival pub the Weatherfield Arms.
When did this pub magically appear? As far as I knew, the Rovers
rivals over the years were:
The Laughing Donkey
The Flying Horse
The Red Lion
The Tripe Dressers Arms
The Griffin
The Pit
Duke of Gloucester
The Dockers Arms
The King's Arms
The Eagle and Child
Blair
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The greatest tragedy here is that they are still insisting Bruce Jones has a
future in the show. And that his character is going to continue to have love
affairs (other than with himself)
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John Dean
Oxford
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Renee
"TC" <T...@Litterbox.com> wrote in message
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> When did this pub magically appear? As far as I knew, the Rovers
> rivals over the years were:
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> The Laughing Donkey
> The Flying Horse
> The Red Lion
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> The Tripe Dressers Arms
> The Griffin
> The Pit
> Duke of Gloucester
> The Dockers Arms
> The King's Arms
> The Eagle and Child
You're forgetting quite a few, Blair dear, particularly from the Seventies.
Don't you recall:
The Turk's Head
The Weatherfield Men's Social Club
The Threadbare Truss
The Queen's Legs (only open at weekends, IIRC)
The Duck and Trumpet
The Suppurating Pustule
The Mincing Tart
The Dog and Ferret
The Prince Albert
The Swan and Three Cygnets
The Seraglio
The Bricklayer's Prostate
The Four Feathers
Giovanni's Room (for those 'on the other bus', IIRC)
The Fat Slag
The Poultry Farmer's Cock
the list is virtually endless, dear.
your friend,
Renee
Roger T.
"Renee"
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> the list is virtually endless, dear.
For forgot "The Flying Fig"
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MartinS
> Rival pub??? whatever happened to the Flying Horse? it's not been
> mentioned for years and lately Janice has mentioned the Turk's Arms or
> Turk's Head arms or some such as in "we can always go to the...."
T' Flyin' 'Oss on Jubilee Terrace is harder to reach since they bricked
up the viaduct. You might get run over by a tram trying to get there.
--
Martin S.
MartinS
> "Sima" <x...@x.com> wrote...
>> Actress Wendi Peters, evil "Podger" Pam Jolly in the tough prison
>> drama, should have no problems acting out her Corrie character,
>> Cilla Brown.
That's a good name, I wonder who thought of it.
My, we are feeling cynical today, aren't we Renee? Nobody ties you down
and forces you to watch this *xcr*m*nt. You could spend the 150 minutes
per week tending to your old gentlemen, your ablutions or whatever.
--
Martin S.
Trev
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>"Renee"
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>> the list is virtually endless, dear.
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>For forgot "The Flying Fig"
"The Frog and Nightgown"
--
Trev (Milnrow, UK)
Tracy Roketta
<john...@frag.lineone.net> wrote:
>> should be fun ;o)
>>
>> CORONATION Street chiefs have signed up a Bad Girl star to play
>> Les Battersby's new love.
>>
>
>The greatest tragedy here is that they are still insisting Bruce Jones has a
>future in the show. And that his character is going to continue to have love
>affairs (other than with himself)
Here here!!! Agreed totally!!!
Tracy
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MartinS
> "Roger T." <roge...@highspeedplus.com> wrote:
>>"Renee"
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>>> the list is virtually endless, dear.
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>>For forgot "The Flying Fig"
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> "The Frog and Nightgown"
"The Frog and Nightgown" actually goes back about 50 years to the Ted
Ray radio show "Ray's A Laugh", featuring Peter Sellers as Crystal
Jollybottom, a person of dubious character - not unlike our Renee.
--
Martin S.
Brian Doyle
"John Dean" <john...@frag.lineone.net> wrote in message
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Yeah, I was hoping he'd split up with himself and at least one half of him
would leave.
Su/Cutworks
> T' Flyin' 'Oss on Jubilee Terrace is harder to reach since they bricked
> up the viaduct. You might get run over by a tram trying to get there.
We can only hope that it proves to be Les' new watering hole.
-Su
annie
>When did this pub magically appear? As far as I knew, the Rovers
>rivals over the years were:
A new on-set pub within the new "Stage Two" studio. ie. a permenant
alternative pub venue for the Street to use on the Granada lot.
Diane Johnston
Why didn't they just called it the traditional Flying Horse which used
to be the closest one to the Rovers. Oh well. doesn't really matter.
Trev
>"The Frog and Nightgown" actually goes back about 50 years to the Ted
>Ray radio show "Ray's A Laugh", featuring Peter Sellers as Crystal
>Jollybottom, a person of dubious character - not unlike our Renee.
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>--
>Martin S.
When I used to drive back from Rainham in the late 70s I remember
passsing a "Frog & Nightgown" somwhere North London-ish. And I think I
heard Tony Hancock make reference to it on one of his shows.
--
Trev (Milnrow, UK)
Glenda
>Why didn't they just called it the traditional Flying Horse which used
>to be the closest one to the Rovers. Oh well. doesn't really matter.
And what ever happened to Stella Rigby?... she were wonderful.
MartinS
> MartinS <m...@my.place> wrote:
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>>"The Frog and Nightgown" actually goes back about 50 years to the Ted
>>Ray radio show "Ray's A Laugh", featuring Peter Sellers as Crystal
>>Jollybottom, a person of dubious character - not unlike our Renee.
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> When I used to drive back from Rainham in the late 70s I remember
> passsing a "Frog & Nightgown" somwhere North London-ish. And I think I
> heard Tony Hancock make reference to it on one of his shows.
Perhaps Galton & Simpson stole it from Ted Ray. Apparently they were
fans of his programme, which ran from 1949 to 1961.
"Ooh, stop it, sauce box!" - Crystal Jollybottom.
--
Martin S.
MartinS
She was buried along with her name - or was that her sister, Eleanor?
--
Martin S.
Katherine Burgess
"Renee" wrote
<snip>
Excellent response to what is sure to be another pointless plot. Good catch
on the grammatical error. I have to confess that I had stopped reading by
then. <g>
TTFN
Katherine
Ophelia
"Glenda" <nos...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> >Why didn't they just called it the traditional Flying Horse which used
> >to be the closest one to the Rovers. Oh well. doesn't really matter.
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> And what ever happened to Stella Rigby?... she were wonderful.
Aye she were! She was very good with Annie:)
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Katherine Burgess
"Glenda" wrote ...
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> >Why didn't they just called it the traditional Flying Horse which used
> >to be the closest one to the Rovers. Oh well. doesn't really matter.
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> And what ever happened to Stella Rigby?... she were wonderful.
OH, she was, indeed! And the "discussions" she and Annie used to have -
bloody marvelous!
TTFN
Katherine
MartinS
Nellie Harvey (Mollie Sugden) of The Laughing Donkey accused Annie
Walker of having an affair with her husband; Alec Gilroy accused Bet of
having an affair with Paul, husband of Stella Rigby of The White Swan.
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Martin S.
Katherine Burgess
"MartinS" wrote
Indeed, RMartin, I remember both of these. Mind, I was a child at the time.
<g>
TTFN
Katherine