Full name:Owen Armstrong
Parents:

Born:
20 September 1958
Siblings:

Married:

Children:
Isabelle(Izzy>, Katy

Played by:

  1. Ian Puleston-Davies

First appeared:9 June 2010

Owen first appeared trying to make up after a row with his older daughter, Izzy who had accused him of interfering in her recent relationship. He is overprotective of his daughter who has a disability and is mostly in a wheelchair. Owen's first wife, we are told, left their family when Katy was a small child, unable to cope with Izzy's disability. He also has a quick temper. He soon fancied Liz McDonald at the Rovers and they dated for awhile but when her ex-husband Jim came back for a visit, Owen allegedly had some thugs beat up Jim.

After Tony Gordon burned down Underworld, Owen undercut local builder Bill Webster and got the contract for the renovations. Owen soon stole employee Jason Grimshaw when Bill was unable to offer him work as well as another local, Chris Gray. In the end, Owen bought the builder's yard from Bill for an undervalued price.

Owen flirted with Eileen but it never really went very far, especially when she found out he was also persuing Liz. He advised her when she wanted to buy her house but didn't tell her that the roof needed redoing. He did hire her to do the books for the yard but when money and bills weighed her down, she realized he was over charging customers and underreporting his VAT and skimmed some off the payments. Owen found out and vowed to destroy Eileen but she promised to go to the Tax people to turn him in. It was a standoff for a few days until Owen managed to steal back the paper work and then had Eileen arrested. He dropped the charges when Izzy forced his hand.

Owen was furious to find out his younger teenage daughter Katy was dating Chesney and almost managed to talk her into an abortion when she got pregnant and then thought Chesney had left her. He's now a doting grandfather to their baby boy and also one that Izzy and Gary had through a surrogate! He was also protective of Izzy when Gary had a breakdown but accepts their relationship and was even the one that offered to pay for a surrogate to carry their baby. This turned out to be Tina and it nearly ended in disaster when Tina wanted to keep the baby after he was born.

After Liz dumped him, Anna Windass caught his eye. Eddie had recently left her over a difference of opinion when they decided to adopt young Faye. She was finding it difficult to make ends meet. Owen ended up buying her house and letting her stay on as a lodger. This made Anna uncomfortable as she wasn't sure she wanted to go out with him. They dated a bit but Faye manipulated them, trying to push Owen away. Owen backed off for awhile since Anna wanted to focus on Faye but eventually they got together and he moved in with her.

Owen has a bad temper and it's got him into trouble more than a few times. Once he even struck Faye across the legs though she had been instigating various schemes to make him look bad. He had built a pond in the garden after tearing down the old shed which angered her and she killed the fish he'd put in the pond. This caused Anna to break up with him but after some months they did get back together.

Owen's company did most of the rebuilding after the tram crashed and destroyed the Kabin, the corner shop and the Bistro. He also started renovations on the unit next to the Bistro when Terry Duckworth was planning to open a lap dancing club. HE rebuilt the pub after it was destroyed in 2013 by a fire though he has been known to overcharge his customers.


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