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This was the week when Jamie and Violet did a
runner with the lickle baby, leaving their flat empty and Sean in
tears. Violet even chucked her mobile phone out of the car window on
the motorway when Sean wouldn't stop calling her to find out why
they'd cut and run. Poor Sean, I really felt for him this week and
tears sprung to my eyes when Sean broke down in the flat and in
tears at losing his son. I never thought I'd say this, but for once,
voting for Antony Cotton as Best Actor in the British Soap Awards
could be justified as he really pulled a blinder. Marcus does his
best and presents Sean with a framed photo of him with his new baby
son, while Ken dishes up strong coffee and sage advice in Roy's
Rolls. And Ken should know about such things. Between Ken and Dev,
the two of them must have fathered half of Weatherfield between
them. And just because I should mention it, I will - with Jamie
Baldwin having left Corrie, it's the first time Coronation Street
has been Baldwin-free for very many long years.
Over at the
Rovers, Ryan moves out to live with uncle Liam and his new bride
Maria, her that's got th'bun in th'oven and not much going on in
t'head. Alex moves in to the pub, takes Ryan's place at the tea
table and in Michelle's heart while Steve continues to roll his eyes
and tut. Why he doesn't put his foot down I'll never know. I know I
would have done so by now. Michelle won't hand Alex back to Wendy
his real mum just yet and it looks like she might never do
so.
David's teenage hormones all over the place, one minute
he's madly in love with his Tina and the next he's sulking in the
shed with Darryl Morton. I like Darryl a lot, he's as quirky as
Kirky and almost as loveable as a certain Mr Watts was.
Curleh-Kirkeh if you like. Anyone who lives in a shed is all right
by me, anyway, and those of you who know me, know that I'd love to
get into that shed and hang red checky curtains at the window. But
somehow I don't see Darryl as a red checky curtains sort of a boy.
Anyway, back to David. He gets Tina's name tattooed on his arm,
which was painful and a relief she wasn't called Elizabeth. Darryl
also gets tattooed but the pain of it prevents him from having the
word England engraved onto his back and he has to make do with the
embarrassment of an E that turns out looking like an L because
that's all he could stand before the pain proved too much. Tina's
not fussed about the tattoo and puts it down to David being tattoo
immature for words. So as David's in the shed with Darryl, moaning
about Tina, Tina's at Gail's house with Gail, moaning about being
pregnant with David's devil child. Oh yes, you read that bit right.
Tina, played by cracking young actress Michelle Keegan, is pregnant
by Platt. Gail tells Audrey and they gossip and whisper and decide
not to tell David that he's going to be a dad, not until Tina
decides what she's going to do. And who's this mysterious Matt, her
ex-boyfriend, who's taken to driving her around in his jam
jar?
Over at Underworld, Wiki catches Kelly nicking knickers
to sell outside of work. They're reject knickers and Kelly sees nowt
wrong wi'what she's up to, in fact, she sees it as recycling to save
the planet. But Wiki warns her off, saying that if Mrs Connor
catches her she'll not be best pleased and will stamp her carbon
footprint on Kelly's behind as she boots her out of the factory
door.
And in the pizza place in the precinct, Leanne's
feeling down as the place isn't making much cash and Paul's none too
happy either. He's got Dan Mason breathing down his neck wanting his
cash back that he paid out to Paul on Jack's betting slip win.
Mind you, Dan's got other things on his mind when his date with
Kelly goes awry after she goes off with Harry the boss bookie. He's
older, wiser, more sophisticated and as he reminds Kelly, he's the
organ grinder not the monkey. And there's a lot to be said for not
going out with a monkey.
And that's just about that for this
week.
Coronation Street writers this week were Mark Wardlow,
Jayne Hollinson, Lucy Gannon and Carmel
Morgan