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Post by xenomaniac on Jun 25, 2006 12:16:03 GMT
Fred? No way, I sayyyy, no way. I'm too upset about this.
Shelly and Tracey have practically just been standing there reading their lines recently, so I can see that they'd rather be off.
The sooner Adam Baldwin and his disturbing hair do one, the better.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jun 25, 2006 14:32:59 GMT
I thought Adam would be off. If only he could act just a teensy bit, then I wouldn't mind as he's pretty, but he's so shite that any storyline he's in can't be believable and is just annoying. It was Fred's choice to leave. I hear he's off in a box. It had better be a heart attack - all that red meat and booze should have done him in by now. |
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jun 25, 2006 14:35:54 GMT
I think he should have a heart attack while poking Bev on the wedding night.
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Post by SweatShop on Jun 25, 2006 14:44:25 GMT
I think he should have a heart attack while poking Bev on the wedding night. That's not a far cry from good ol' Footballers' Wives. |
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jun 25, 2006 14:48:20 GMT
Ooh ooh! And he falls on Bev and suffocates her! Because she's only tiny and can't move him, so that's how she gets written out.
It would be one of the best soap exits ever.
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Post by [james] on Jun 25, 2006 14:52:15 GMT
She suffociates in his moobs. Genius.
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Post by booers on Jul 12, 2006 12:12:06 GMT
The sooner Diggory goes the better. I never really got the point of him. He is just Fred Elliott in Jack Duckworth's body. Molly is great though, and she and Tyrone are one of the best soap couples around at the mo.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Jul 12, 2006 13:45:54 GMT
Molly is great though, and she and Tyrone are one of the best soap couples around at the mo. Molly has the eyes of Satan. |
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Post by QuincyMD on Jul 12, 2006 14:39:35 GMT
The sooner Diggory goes the better. I never really got the point of him. They have already started advertising Diggory as being in the Kings Theatre (Glasgow) panto this year so he can't be on screen past December. |
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Post by jem on Jul 13, 2006 12:29:51 GMT
The sooner Diggory goes the better. I never really got the point of him. They have already started advertising Diggory as being in the Kings Theatre (Glasgow) panto this year so he can't be on screen past December. It'll be shellsuit bob at the pavillion for me then! |
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Post by Bridgey on Jul 19, 2006 20:55:24 GMT
The sooner Diggory goes the better. I never really got the point of him. They have already started advertising Diggory as being in the Kings Theatre (Glasgow) panto this year so he can't be on screen past December. No! Plz don't herald return to shit Northern comedians ruining Scottish pantos. *God, I sound like a right racist* Bridgey xxx |
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Post by SweatShop on Jul 20, 2006 20:22:47 GMT
They have already started advertising Diggory as being in the Kings Theatre (Glasgow) panto this year so he can't be on screen past December. It'll be shellsuit bob at the pavillion for me then! Hurrah! Nice River City reference. I love that show. It really is SO lowculture. |
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Post by Bungle on Jul 20, 2006 22:59:51 GMT
I must be getting old, I'd never considered Fred a longtimer! It's like living in a village. If they weren't there when I was born, they're new...
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Post by Bungle on Jul 20, 2006 23:21:48 GMT
Oh, I'm not doubting that he is a longtimer really, I was just thinking about my perceptions really.
Apparently he's been in it since 1994.
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Post by Bungle on Jul 20, 2006 23:46:08 GMT
Your 1994 is my late 1989, so yes, I suppose so. I've just tried to find out who joined in 1989, and I notice that Alma did, and I don't remember the show without her (even though I probably saw it), so fair enough!
Mind you, I didn't ever see it on Wednesdays if Doctor Who was on.
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Post by Nicholas on Jul 21, 2006 8:00:25 GMT
Alma only joined in 1989? Are you sure?
She really did seem to have been in it for ages, until she thoughtlessly died, that is. I still miss Alma.
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Post by Cherubic on Jul 21, 2006 8:08:57 GMT
So did Alma's ugly cafe (which I remember from around 89) not exist before then? It truly captured the horror of eating out for breakfast in pre-bomb Manchester. If it was put up in 89 it captured the bizzare Arndale anti-aesthetic perfectly.
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Post by Nick on Jul 21, 2006 8:30:49 GMT
I was a bit staggered to read somewhere online that the McDonalds had only been in it since 1989. I was sure they'd been in it since, ooh, I dunno, way back in 1988, at least.
I was even more staggered to see Gail described as a 'forty-something'. Forty what? Forty-twelve? Forty-fifteen? This can't be right, surely?
Wikipedia (ok, this has been my source so far, sorry) says that Alma joined in 1981, and that Emily started running the cafe in either the very late 1970s or the very early 1980s, with Alma taking it over from 1982 onwards.
I still don't think Gail is forty-something, though.
Do people consider Roy to be a long-serving character? He's passed his decade now. And hasn't he blossomed!
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Post by Cherubic on Jul 21, 2006 9:23:17 GMT
Gail is 55 if she's a day. I know this because she as in the same class as my Dad at school, and he's that old.
Emily ran the cafe? How? She'd be giving free tea to all the waifs and strays, listening to sob stories when she should be mopping the floors and would refuse to cook anything greasy or fatty because it's indulgent when there are starving children in Africa. Maybe she went bust and Alma took over in a government sponsored key industry rescue package, although this would be highly unlikely under Thatcher's economic policies.
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Post by Bungle on Jul 21, 2006 9:45:13 GMT
I just searched for Coronation Street joined 1989 on Google and got www.angelfire.com/pe/IslandGetaway/leaving.html - but reading it closer, it looks like she first appeared in 1981 and only became a regular in 1989. I do, however, remember the McDonalds arriving! |
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Post by ruthie on Jul 21, 2006 9:45:58 GMT
Soap Gail must be 40ish, though I agree that Real Gail is probably older. If Audrey is her mother, she can't be THAT old - although ow old is Audrey supposed to be? I'm all confused now...
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Post by Bungle on Jul 21, 2006 9:49:06 GMT
Wikipedia (I know, I know...) says that Gail's DOB is 18 April 1958 making her 48. The fact that she seems to have been in it forever is down to her joining in 1974, so she was only 16 when she arrived, although Worth was 23.
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Post by jem on Jul 21, 2006 9:58:05 GMT
Wikipedia (I know, I know...) says that Gail's DOB is 18 April 1958 making her 48. The fact that she seems to have been in it forever is down to her joining in 1974, so she was only 16 when she arrived, although Worth was 23. He He note to self- must tell the mother Gail is 6 days younger than her. |
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Post by Cherubic on Jul 21, 2006 9:59:53 GMT
Soap Gail must be 40ish, though I agree that Real Gail is probably older. If Audrey is her mother, she can't be THAT old - although ow old is Audrey supposed to be? I'm all confused now... Audrey isn't too ancient (she always brackets herself with Ken and Fred, and they must only be in their sixties) but you have to remember that young Audrey was what you might term a bit of a tart (Gail being her second teenage baby, the first being exiled to Canada) and so there would not be such a huge age gap between them. |
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Post by bez80 on Aug 31, 2006 11:23:15 GMT
Molly is great though, and she and Tyrone are one of the best soap couples around at the mo. Molly has the eyes of Satan. I find that part of her appeal! Fred is off soon with another "we filmed more than one ending" storyline! *chortle* |
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