The Kevin and Molly affair is just so thrown together i think, i mean tonight they are on the corner of the main street kissing in view of the kebab shop, doesnt make sense really.

Hopefully the new producer will just throw the Molvin storyline out the window never to be mentioned again.

This Claire & Becky story is hilarious :lol:

Joe McIntyre's dramatic Coronation Street death is to be caused by an insurance scam that goes tragically wrong, a report has claimed today.

 

According to The Sun, Gail Platt's troubled partner, played by Reece Dinsdale, decides to disappear on a boating holiday in the Lake District after experiencing a debt crisis which begins to spiral out of control.

 

However, in a surprise twist, it is believed that the painkiller addict ends up losing his life for real when a sail pole knocks him unconscious and into freezing cold water before he can carry out his plan in full.

 

The plotline is expected to share similarities with the real-life case of fraudster John Darwin, who faked his own death while out canoeing before turning up alive five years later in December 2007. He and his wife Anne have since been sentenced to over six years imprisonment.

 

A Weatherfield source said: "It's a copycat storyline of Darwin's insurance scam. Corrie bosses have decided that Joe will meet a watery end. He decides to fake his own death to avoid his crippling debt problems and leave wife Gail with the proceeds from his life insurance."

 

It is thought that Joe will be seen resorting to the desperate measure in February after debt collectors threaten to harm his daughter Tina (Michelle Keegan) unless he pays off what he owes.

 

Joe first arrived on the cobbles in May 2008 and soon became romantically involved with unlucky-in-love Gail (Helen Worth). Dinsdale announced his decision to quit the role in June this year.

 

Exciting storyline :o finally

and another watery end to another one of gail's husbands.

R.I.P Maggie Jones :(

 

Such terrible news. :cry:

R.I.P Maggie Jones :(

 

Such terrible news. :cry:

 

 

:o Has she died. Oh no, such a great character too.

Oh no! She was such a great character... :/

RIP.

ITV statement:

 

"It is with great sadness that ITV announces that Coronation Street actress Maggie Jones has today passed away aged 75.

 

"Maggie, who has played battle-axe pensioner Blanche Hunt since 1974, died at the Salford Royal Hospital where she has been treated since falling ill in October. Maggie had been making a slow recovery but her condition deteriorated early Wednesday morning and she passed away peacefully in her sleep."

 

Corrie executive producer Kieran Roberts added: “Maggie was a much-loved colleague and a wonderful actress who turned Blanche into a true Coronation Street icon. She will be hugely missed by Coronation Street's many millions of viewers and by everyone who works on Coronation Street. Our thoughts and prayers go to Maggie's sister Joan at this very sad time."

 

Her co-star William Roache, who plays Ken Barlow, lead the tributes to Jones, describing her as a "tower of strength".

 

"Maggie was a big part of the Barlow family and a brilliant actress. She was a tower of strength, physically frail but mentally strong as an ox and sharp as someone half her age," he said. "She had an amazing dry wit and was as funny if not funnier than Blanche. We were great crossword partners, we sat through Tracy's trial scenes doing the crossword together. I don't think Maggie ever realised how much she was loved not only by everyone on the show but by the millions of Blanche fans out there. She will be greatly missed."

 

Can't quite believe it :(

How sad! Corrie won't be the same! RIP Maggie.

 

Norma

RIP Maggie :(

 

Blanche was such a fun character, she'll definitely be missed

Just heard on Paul O Grady :snif:

Absolutely devasted :cry: Shes such a legend.

Here's a look back at some of Blanche's greatest one-liners.

 

Blanche telling Liz off for leaving her washing drying all over the sitting room:

"Kenneth doesn't want to stare at thongs all day. The man's an intellectual!"

 

Blanche to Deirdre:

"You need to learn to enjoy other people's misfortune; otherwise, you're going to have a very unhappy old age."

 

Blanche to Deirdre after turning Ken's proposal down:

"Well if you leave it much longer, he won't be able to get up again!"

 

Blanche:

"I don't have any truck with tank tops. They're unmanly."

 

Blanche trying to watch TV while Deirdre and Tracy are gossiping.

"You pick over other people's love lives for your own petty amusement. I wouldn't mind but I can't hear Trisha!"

 

Blanche:

"I didn't get central heating until I was 52, which is why my skin is like alabaster!"

 

Blanche to Tracy:

"You look remarkably chipper. Trod on a snail?"

 

Blanche to Deirdre:

"Good looks are a curse. You and Ken should count yourselves lucky."

 

Blanche talking to Ross, an alcoholic at Peter's alcohol support group, about Deirdre and Ken:

"Careful, she'll be coming onto you next… They're like a pair of swingers…"

 

Blanche talking about Ross:

"I've never heard so much self-indulgent whinging in all my life. Is there some correlation between how boring you are and how much you drink?"

 

Blanche talking to Dev after he tripped up making his way inside following his embarrassing naked portrait exposé:

"Don't look at me. With my arthritis, I can barely peel a satsuma"

 

Kirk bumps into Blanche outside the Barlows' after she's been thrown out by Deirdre:

Kirk: "Alright? Off on your holidays?"

Blanche: "Yes, I'm going to hell in a handcart."

 

Legend.

Her one liners were classic. A great actress.

Blanche to Deirdre:

"Good looks are a curse. You and Ken should count yourselves lucky."

 

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Her one liners were absolutely brilliant. She'll be greatly missed.

I was really devastasted to hear about this. :cry: R.I.P. Maggie, you're gonna be sorely missed.

Just a few of Blanches funniest moments in my eyes:

 

Blanche: 'I've no problem with the gays. I'd walk over hot coals for Paul O'Grady'

 

Blanche: 'I'd cut off his what-nots with a pair of garden shears me. The rustier the better.'

 

Blanche: 'Skirt no bigger than a belt, too much eyeliner and roots as dark as her soul.' (with regards to Liz Macdonald)

 

*Dev's bum is pinched by an onlooking girl and he turns to Blanche*

Blanche: 'Don't look at me, with my arthritis I can barely peel a satsuma.'

 

*Peter takes Simons temperature*

Peter: 'This is a funny looking thermometer'

Blanche: 'Thats because it's anal. Don't worry I've ran it through the dishwasher.'

 

Blanche: 'Well they can't have children of their own, because he's a loony and she's a man!'

 

Blanche: 'That womans never happy unless shes got somebody elses hands around her throat.' (with regards to Gail Platt)

 

Blanche: 'This turkey is as dry enough to choke a camel.'

 

*Blanche, Norris, Jack and Sally check in on a believed to be 'dead' Rita*

Norris: 'I'm sorry about this Rita, I couldn't find your pulse!'

Blanche: 'I'm not suprised searching under all that make-up.'

 

Truly will be missed, shes the shows true comedy gem!

I loved her comment at (was it Charlie and Shelley's wedding) 'Do you think they wrote their own vows?'

 

Norma

She's had so many amazing moments, I really couldn't choose one tbh. A true icon :( Such a shame.