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January 7
2017
First off, let’s have a look at what’s going
on with Toyah. She and Peter are still snogging in secret and Peter
pleads with Simon to stay quiet about him and Toyah for the sake of
Leanne’s health. Well, the doctor’s told Leanne to avoid stress for
the sake of her baby, so Simon does what he’s told. But after Toyah
and Peter have a snog-fest in Leanne and Nick’s flat while
everyone’s out, Peter leaves his packet of fags behind. Leanne asks
who they belong to and Simon has to lie and say that they’re his.
You really feel for Simon, the poor kid, who tells Toyah he hates
her. Eva’s not keen on her either, she feels she’s wheedling he way
in to Leanne’s life in a way that Eva can’t, she hasn’t got the
history with Leanne that Toyah has and she’s jealous. And so after
bickering at the bar with Toyah, Eva’s not happy with her
half-sister’s half-sister. When she finds Simon crying in the
ginnel after arguing with Leanne who thinks he’s taken up smoking,
Eva wants to know what’s going on. Simon reveals all about Toyah and
his
dad.
Phelan gets his claws in at Kev’s house this
week after he rescues Anna who falls down the stairs. Kev’s called
out on a breakdown and Anna’s alone in the house with little Jack.
Jack has the presence of mind to go out into the street to get help
after Anna falls and lies motionless at the bottom of the stairs,
but the first person Jack runs into to ask for help is Pat Phelan.
Pat gets Anna back on her feet after he breaks into the house via
the back door to help save her. When Kev returns from the breakdown
to find Phelan fixing the door and Anna in a state, he’s not best
pleased. Despite that, he leaves Phelan when he and Anna go upstairs
to bed. Phelan takes his cue and rifles through Kev’s jacket pockets
after he’d heard Kevin say that the papers for the purchase of his
new breakdown van are in there. This was all a bit too obvious to my
mind, a bit clunky, but sometimes you just have to follow Corrie if
you want to stick with it, and this was one of those times. Phelan
then rings the company that Kev’s buying his new truck from,
pretends to be Kev and asks for the delivery address of the truck to
be changed. He then nicks Kev’s phone as he has to email the company
as confirmation that he’s Kev, when he’s
not.
Last week it looked like Andy had done a
runner after his run-in with Phelan, but no, he’s still here. Steph
finds him packing his bag in the flat and asks him to stay, which he
does, but he’s got a face on. Steph’s mate Peggy arrives this week
and falls for Robert, who tells her he’s not interested as he’s got
his eye on someone else. When Michelle hears Steph and Peggy discuss
this in the pub and wonder who that someone else is, her eyebrows
perk
up.
Speaking of Michelle, Liz and Steve arrange
a baby shower for her for Monday night next week. Toyah also
arranges a baby shower on the same night for Leanne. There’s some
wonderful confusion over who’s going to which baby shower and then
Liz makes it clear in the Rovers that Michelle’s baby shower is the
one that should come first. Michelle asks Leanne to have a joint
baby shower, to which Leanne agrees.
Mary almost left this week when she jumped
in a taxi to head off to South Africa with her son Jude she’d known
for twenty minutes. Norris sits home alone on the stairs and cries
but he’s not upset for long before Mary’s back saying she can’t
leave.
Someone else changing their mind this week
was Roy when he decided against selling the café. A cheer went up
from our sofa. Also making life-changing decisions this
week was Johnny Connor. First off he decides he’s retiring from the
factory and he makes a big announcement to this effect. Then he
decides he’s not retiring after all. Then he dumps Jenny after
he confides in Jenny that Aidan is seeing someone else. Not only
does Jenny wrongly assume the other person is Alya, but she revels
in breaking the news to Eva, who storms round to their flat where
Alya is in their bedroom looking for the cat and Aidan is freshening
up sans shirt in the bathroom. Eva throws a wobbly but has to
apologise when Aidan tells her there’s nowt going on between him and
Alya.
Johnny’s incensed that Jenny caused such a
split in his family and throws her out of the flat on her ear
calling her vicious. Aidan says she’s poisonous. Worse is to come
for Jenny when Johnny sacks her after Gemma gets the two of them
together in the Bistro to talk and Johnny thinks Jenny has arranged
the meeting herself. But later in the factory, after Gemma
pleads Jenny’s case to Johnny. “I know she’s a head case but she
really loves yer!”, Johnny mellows towards Jenny. In fact he mellows
so much that he proposes on the factory floor.
This was such a brilliant scene. Johnny gets
down on one knee to pick up something Jenny’s dropped and you can
see him thinking ‘While I’m down here, shall I pop the question?’
and you’re thinking to yourself as a fan ‘He wouldn’t be so daft,
would he?’ and then you can see him thinking to himself again ‘Nah,
I wouldn’t be that daft, would I?’ but he does… he proposes to Jenny
flaming Bradley and of course she says yes. There’s champagne corks
flying in the factory and again in the Rovers as Jenny looks set to
become Jenny flaming Connor. “I was playing putrid!” Gemma
says in the Rovers later as she toasts the happy couple. “Cupid!”
Rita corrects her. Oh, I do hope we get to see Rita play the mother
of the bride and Gemma as
bridesmaid.
Elsewhere this week Shona gets her feet
under the table at Eileen’s house when she moves in. Billy also gets
Shona a job in the café. I don’t like this storyline, it feels
forced so far. We had it with Becky – bad girl makes good, put her
with Roy, working in the café. I’m not liking this one so
far.
Adam and Peter Barlow take it upon
themselves this week to fight Aidan Connor for what they see as
being their share of the factory. Lest we forget, Peter gave his
shares back to Carla and Adam walked away from his share too.
Neither of them have any legal claim to Underworld but it’s enough
to rattle Aidan Connor for
now.
And finally this week, Zeedan wants a baby,
Yasmeen wants a grandchild and Rana wants them both to leave her
well alone. And that’s just about that for this week.
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