Maureen Elliott Maureen Elliott
Played by: Sherrie
Hewson
First appeared: 1993
Maureen Grimes first met Reg Holdsworth
in Llandudno in 1968 - he was on holiday and she was a waitress
in a cafe where Reg dropped in for a cup of tea. He asked her
out, and within 3 months they were engaged. However, Maureen's
mother Maud Grimes took an instant
dislike to Reg, and although they continued to see each other
in secret, Maud and her husband Wilf ensured that the relationship
ended by moving away.
Maureen eventually married Frank Naylor, and they lived in Preston,
but the marriage ended in divorce, and in 1993, Maureen moved
back to Weatherfield to live with her widowed mother, and got
a job as an assistant at Bettabuy's - where unbeknown to her,
the recently divorced Reg was manager.
They immediately took up where they had left off, and were soon
engaged. However, Maureen caught Reg with Debi Scott, the
widow of Brendan Scott, formerly the Bettabuy area manager.
Reg pleaded with her to take him back, and they became engaged
for a third time - but not before the upset and a bottle of red
wine got the better of her, and she spent the night with Curly
Watts.
Reg and Maureen were married in January 1994, and they looked
forward to running the corner shop together. Reg soon tired of
this and by July 1994 was working for Firman's Freezers, leaving
Maurren and Maud to run the corner shop.
With Reg working, they tried to sell the corner shop, without
any success, and things got worse when in November 1995 when Reg
was offered, and finally took the job of Firman's National Distribution
Manager in Lowestoft. Maureen felt she couldn't leave her mother
in Weatherfield or leave the business she had developed, and resigned
herself to only seeing Reg at weekends.
By March 1996, the strain of weekends commuting to Lowestoft was
beginning to tell on Maureen, and after she ran out of pertol
and left herself stranded (having to ring Curly for help), she
vowed not to travel to Lowestoft again, saying she didn't have
a real marriage any more. After not hearing from Reg for a week,
and receiving a strange letter from him, Maureen decided to travel
to Lowestoft, but found his flat empty. It was left to Curly to
explain that Reg had resigned, and run off with Yvonne
Bannister. It was only the next month that Maureen found out
the whole truth, that Reg wanted a divorce, and Yvonne was expecting
his child. Maureen agreed to this - in return for Reg's share
of the corner shop.
In the summer of 1997, Maureen had been dating Bill Webster but during a period they had been broken up, Fred Elliott started to woo her. She rashly agreed to marry him and they wed in September but she realized she really didn't love Fred and ran off to Germany with Bill 2 weeks after the wedding.
She was not seen again until some years later when Bill had come to Weatherfield. He started an affair with Audrey. At Christmas, Maureen turned up at the Platts' unexpectedly and discovered the affair thanks to David. She went back to Germany and divorced Bill.
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