It's New
Year's Eve in the Rovers Return and tickets are ?5 a bash
for the locals to
sit in a pub where they'd sat for free earlier
that day. Still, some
of them are daft enough to pay up and listen to Sally Webster do a
Bonny Tyler on the karaoke. Molly's not
best pleased with the attention Kev's giving his
missus. ?What's she
got that I haven't?? she moans to Kev. "Cancer,? he
replies.
Ouch. She's also got a Christmas
tree fairy that looks like Esther
Rantzen. Sally sees the surgeon at
th'ospital and she's scheduled for a lumpectomy
a week on Friday. It's all very
sad.
Meanwhile,
Molly's urging on Tyrone to apply for another job
away from the cobbles, and Kev. But Tyrone's
mantra of "change is not good? keeps him stuck on the Street,
for
now.
Graeme's in
lust with Rosie and starts following her around as she roller skates
in a mini skirt firing vodka from a plastic
pistol. She gets some
glamour shots (aka narks out for the lens)
done, much to the ridicule of sister
Sophie. Meanwhile, Sophie's not too
happy as she's betrayed by Sian who pops her
cherry with Ryan in Michelle's bed.
Audrey's off to the
social event of the year ? the Weatherfield stylist's
ball. As she hasn't
anyone to escort her, she
rings the escort agency and
lovely Lewis turns up at the allotted hour with some soothing
words when
Audrey gets cold
feet about paying for a night out
with a man. She gets
tipsy, does Audrey, and ends the
night on Gail's sofa, drunk, telling her daughter she'll pay
for her honeymoon
with Joe, despite not liking the fella. She even
offers to do Gail's hair with Harvest Honeydew
highlights.
Poor
Joe. You can see
where Audrey's coming from
and she's probably right not to trust him, but he is such a nice
bloke, he's just, you know, feckless. Evil villain
loan shark Rick Needham (boo, hiss, etc.) - him with
the seedy eyes and dodgy coat, torments Joe
demanding his loan's paid and when it's clear Joe's broke, he
threatens to torment
Tina. I'd just call
the cops, me, wouldn't you?
Steve and
Becky are hitting the skids over whether to have
kids. He wants
them, she doesn't, and they're not speaking
now. Becky
confides all to the Croppers then takes Claire on a night out,
giving her a Mrs-Mac-make-over (think heavy make-up and even heavier
ear-rings) while Steve gets drunk with
Ashley.
At the
Barlow's, the New Year gets off to a quiet start but Grandad
George is starting
to creep Peter out. First he
turns up unannounced to collect little Simon from school and then he
offers to pay for private
education for the lad
too. Ooh, I can't
wait for Ken to find
out about that one.
And Dev's beer
belly wobbles with joy when Sunita lets him have the kids over
for
tea.
Finally this
week, in the Rovers Return, Betty's got a touch of Geographical
Tongue. I have no
idea what this is, but she says it's very
sore. Crikey! I've just googled it
and it really does exist!
And that's
just about that for this
week.
Coronation Street
writers this week were Jonathan Harvey, Simon Crowther, Damon
Rochefort and
David
Lane.