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Post by sallywebster on Jan 20, 2008 23:23:06 GMT
If they had sent them off to Blackpool Bill would have to have left as well as they would never split them up and Bill wants to stay. The only way to write her out was for Vera to die, and they did her death in the most moving way possible. The press were bound to hype it up as she is a Corrie legend.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jan 20, 2008 23:53:02 GMT
Ah but as I posted several times before, they always said when one goes, they both will.
It wasn't the press hyping it up. It was Granada. The press only reported what they put in the public domain.
Patsy
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Post by CG Wendy on Jan 21, 2008 1:05:54 GMT
Yeah trust Granada to build them up as the Golden Couple and then when one of them dies they have a new partner for them within days of the funeral. They make me sick.
Gary Mallet and the twins are in Blackpool too aren`t they. Don`t know where Brad is though. Crumbs he`s 11 or close to it. How old is Tommy? 15? 16?
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Post by sallywebster on Jan 21, 2008 8:22:51 GMT
Tommy was born in 92 so will be 16 this year.
But the situation changed due to Liz's health and she had to quit. Bill clearly feels he is well enough to carry on. Death for Vera was probabaly the only option.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jan 21, 2008 15:26:24 GMT
Liz was diagnosed a few years ago and should have quit long before now if she was as bad as the papers reported when it came out and needing oxygen so often per hour. As for Bill, how do you know he won't go when his contract runs out?
Patsy
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Post by Nick on Jan 21, 2008 18:02:50 GMT
I had a funny dream last night...I was at Vera's funeral do..but it was being held in Hilda's room with the muriel...but then when we went outside the house was in Brookside close..Michelle Connor had a massive dog that she couldn't control and Brooksides Ron Dixon and Bev McLoughlin were stood by a car sneering at Michelle..and Bev said something to Michelle about she should be ashamed at stealing someone elses husband..and I said to Bev..'Yes thats what DD Dixon said' !!
commit me now ;D
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jan 21, 2008 19:04:18 GMT
LOL! What a weird but fabulous dream! Was the dog called Carla by any chance?  Patsy |
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Post by sallywebster on Jan 21, 2008 23:03:24 GMT
Liz was diagnosed a few years ago and should have quit long before now if she was as bad as the papers reported when it came out and needing oxygen so often per hour. As for Bill, how do you know he won't go when his contract runs out? Patsy I think Bill wants to continue as long as he can, same as Liz. They clearly love their jobs so much they dont want to leave. It must have been impossible for Liz to continue for her to quit. Also so many leave these days we could say that about any one of them not renewing their contract. Reet for 1! |
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jan 21, 2008 23:56:51 GMT
Now Jezziekins, you know better than to get my hopes up like that! Well we'll see what happens with Bill. Patsy |
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Post by sallywebster on Jan 22, 2008 21:07:14 GMT
Maybe Reet will be next out of the old school cast to leave. Not many of them left now - Reet, Ken, Emily, Betty, Jack, Audrey. About it really unless you count Deirdre and Gail but they could stay for 30+ years!
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jan 22, 2008 21:17:09 GMT
You're doing it again. Raising my hopes! You evil swine. LOL!
Patsy
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Post by sallywebster on Jan 22, 2008 21:18:30 GMT
LOL!
I see the pics of Vera's funeral were in some of the soap mags today. It will be good to see R Terry back.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jan 22, 2008 22:13:18 GMT
Yes and Reet will be there. I'm glad they brought R Terry back. Wouldn't be right without him.
Patsy
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Post by sallywebster on Jan 22, 2008 22:52:23 GMT
Me too. Despite all he did to them Vera still loved him.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jan 22, 2008 23:22:34 GMT
Yep and he did love him mam despite making her give the kidney to Paul resulting in her life being at risk.
Patsy
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jan 23, 2008 13:20:10 GMT
I caught Liz in a 1975 ep of Crown Court last night with a brown bubble perm.
Patsy
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Post by sallywebster on Jan 23, 2008 20:55:02 GMT
He did. He was just a coward.
Was that when she played the landlady of a pub? She talked about it in her autobiography. This was after her first appearance in Corrie but she did lots of other things during the first few years in Corrie as her appearances were few and far between.
Where did you see that ep?
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jan 23, 2008 21:11:31 GMT
Yes that's the one. It was on a channel called Red. I watched the news to find out if there was any more on Heath Ledger as it went off BBC2 at 1am then while trying to find the channel on the EPG it had been left on, saw CC listed and there she was in the witness box. I'm really annoyed as I'm a fan of Patrick Troughton and that was the repeat so wasn't able to tape it as I'd missed part 1 and half of part 2. Grrr!
Patsy
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Post by sallywebster on Jan 23, 2008 21:27:09 GMT
She said in her book that she played the part of a policewoman in Crown Court for a while but it wasnt a speaking part. She then got the part of a pub landlady. Apparently that is where Corrie got the idea of the perm from. This character in Crown Court was apparently very Vera!
Im not sure how many eps she did in 1974 - it might well have been just the 2 initial ones she did - but I know she was back in Corrie in 1976 as Fred Gee's girlfriend for a while and then semi regular from October 86 at Baldwins.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jan 23, 2008 21:38:27 GMT
Jack and Vera moved into number nine in 1983, didn't they?
Patsy
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Post by Nick on Jan 23, 2008 22:02:14 GMT
yes they did..i think Jez may have meant 1976 at Baldwins
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Post by sallywebster on Jan 23, 2008 22:31:00 GMT
Yeah I meant Oct 1976. She was semi regular from then on and became permanent cast in 1983.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jan 23, 2008 22:33:24 GMT
Finger slipped? That's what comes off too much dreaming of Liam topless. LOL!
Patsy
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Post by sallywebster on Jan 23, 2008 22:35:16 GMT
LOL!
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jan 25, 2008 1:32:44 GMT
From the Mirror: Jack and Vera Duckworth reunited in pub EXCLUSIVE By Claire Donnelly 24/01/2008 By 'eck, Chuck! Here's something you thought you'd never see - Jack and Vera Duckworth back together again. Just days after dying on-screen, Corrie star Liz Dawn was cheered by delighted fans as she turned up to meet her TV family for a few beers and a sing-song. Liz, 69, whose emotional portrayal of Vera's death attracted 12.5 million viewers last Friday, joined screen hubby Bill Tarmey, 67, and wayward son Terry (Nigel Pivaro) at the Broadoak pub in Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester. She was cheered as she joined Bill on stage to sing Me and My Shadow - and had the crowd in stitches as she shouted: "Not bad for someone who has been dead for five days, eh kid?" Bill joked: "I'm very upset. You may have seen it on telly. My wife's just died. I cried, our Terry cried - even the pigeons cried." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Okay call me cynical but for someone who reckoned to be using oxygen on the set and her health was so bad, she got up and sang?  Where was the oxygen then? If she struggled with a few scenes whenever needed, she'd never have been able to do that. Patsy |
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Where was the oxygen then? If she struggled with a few scenes whenever needed, she'd never have been able to do that.