And so without any further ado, here we go with this week's
Coronation Street
update.
It’s been a wonderful week in Weatherfield with Rita’s wedding to
Dennis and the Jubilee Street Party taking place too. In fact, little else happened to
let’s jump in straight away with the biggest and best storyline of the week
first.
So this was the week when Rita was wed and there’s a new Mrs Tanner
on the Street. But getting to the
Register Office on time and without incident or accident was never going to be
Rita’s style and in true Corrie fashion, there was drama and danger. Rita was kidnapped and almost thrown
into the canal before she got to exchange vows and rings with Dennis.
But before we go into all things wedding, let’s rewind just a little
to find ourselves in Websters’ Garage where Rick the drug dealer is threatening
ten kinds of nastiness to Tommy if he doesn’t take a car full of drugs to
Amsterdam. As Tommy works away in
the garage stuffing the car with drugs, Tina’s in her bridesmaid’s dress, locks
Tommy in th’office and drives off to the canal with the drugs. She rings Rick
and tells him if he wants the booty back, he’ll have to meet her at the canal
and promise to lay off her and Tommy and go after Terry for the debt instead.
She’s a tough cookie that Tina.
Anyway, Rick goes looking for Tommy on the Street but finds Rita instead,
tells her he’s her wedding chauffer and drives off to the canal to meet Tina.
She’s threatening to throw his drugs in the canal but Rick’s playing Top Trumps
and Rita in her wedding gown is 10 points while the bag of dope is 2. "You drop
that bag into the water, and I drop this one in too," Rick tells Tina and just
when she surrenders and throws the bag to him as he sets Rita free, shaken and
stirred and somewhat confused, the cops arrive and nick Rick. Woohoo! It’s the
end of that dire storyline and Kirsty becomes heroine of the hour as she appears
to be working as a copper again after being suspended from her job and not just
that, she’s got psychic powers too. What the heck? Suspend all belief, there’s a
wedding we have to get to so let’s crack on.
At the Register Office, Dennis is anxious that Rita’s not just
fashionably late for her own wedding, she’s uncomfortably and horribly well
behind time. Norris turns nasty and tells Dennis that if he hadn’t been caught
comforting his ex-fiance Norma earlier in the week, then Rita wouldn’t have
jilted him. Dennis and Norris come to blows outside the Register Office and just
as Ken intervenes to keep them apart, a cop car screams up with Rita inside.
She’s radiant, she’s Rita, she’s ready to get wed.
And so Norris takes her arm and waltzes Rita up the aisle to the tune
of "On the Street Where You Live." "I
don’t offer you the summer of my lifetime," she tells Dennis as they exchange
rings. "I offer you the autumn, all warm and mellow." My God. If you weren’t in
tears by this point, then you’d better check your pulse because you surely must
be dead. And then the newly-weds wended their way back to the Weatherfield to
join in celebrations for the Jubilee Street Party where cake and some hotpots
were served .
Ah yes, the party. That other storyline this week. There’s a full list here of who dressed
up as who http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/pics-corries-jubilee-street-party-fancy.html and I know I can’t have been the only Corrie fan who closed my eyes
and counted to ten, wishing and hoping that Stella dressed as Dusty Springfield
will soon end up in the middle of nowhere. So yes, there’s a party, there’s
dressing up and trestle tables but not much else going on in the way of
storylines apart from Sean being taken back on at the Rovers because it’s the
spiritual home of Betty’s Hot Pot recipe.
There’s a raffle at the party and little FayE wins a romantic weekend
away in a luxury hotel which she gives to Anna and Owen by way of apologising
for nicking all the flowers from the Weatherfield in Bloom entrants this week.
And in other news this week, Carla sacks Eileen from the factory
after she takes time off to attend Lesley’s funeral. The workers walk out in support of
Eileen and Ida Clough would have been proud. Eileen’s touched by her friends’
concern but bemused as she tells them there really was no need – she’s got her
job back on the Streetcars Switch.
And finally this week, Karl and Sunita almost get caught out getting
jiggy in the corner shop. Dev walks in, Karl jumps to the floor and hides behind
the counter while Sunita lies through her teeth. Oh mummy, please make it end.
