Coronation
Street Weekly Update - Tinsel, Turkey and
Trouble
It’s been a wicked winter in Weatherfield this
Christmas. First
let’s kick off with the big Christmas story that was Nick and
Leanne’s wedding.
As it’s soap, things were never going to go smoothly
and this was no exception. After a drunken hen
night with Eva trying to get Leanne so wrecked on cheap booze
that she wouldn’t be able to get up the next morning to face
her own wedding, Leanne got up fine. But then it all went
downhill after that.
En route to the church in the back of a taxi, Leanne
called at Peter’s house to give him last dibs. He was almost ready to
take Leanne back and had suggested much the same to her the
night before as he tried to snog her in the back room of the
pub after Leanne came back from her hen do, all smudged
mascara and skew-whiff tiara. And Peter was tempted,
oh yes he was tempted, but in between him declaring undying
love for Leanne in the back of the pub and Leanne offering
herself to him in her wedding frock and winter bolero,
something had changed. Something had happened. Someone had
returned from LA.
Yup, Carla’s back and Peter’s head has been turned once
again. Leanne let
rip at Carla, telling her she’s Peter’s second choice but
Carla already knows.
So Leanne hops back in the taxi after being snubbed
by Peter, sniffs, puts her bolero straight and the cab drives
on to the wedding venue, some fancy country house, where
Nick’s waiting for his bride. As they’re just about
to exchange vows, Eva pipes up from the pew. She can’t keep quiet
that one, not with a crush the size of Salford she’s got for
Nick. She tells
the congregation that Leanne offered herself to Peter who
didn’t want her and now she’s settling for Nick. Well, that’s
it. There’s tears and tantrums in an ante-room and the
wedding’s off, everyone goes home. Everyone that is except for
Nick and his sister in law Kylie who end up using the
honeymoon suite to get jiggy together. Nick because he’s just
been jilted by Leanne in a very public way and Kylie because
David has been horribly cruel to her and she doesn’t know
where her head’s at.
It’s a secret Nick and Kylie will have to keep but
Kylie finds it hard and plans to run away to live in Barbados
with Becky. She
soon returns though, and David vows to make her happy, while
Nick looks like he’s seen the ghost of Christmas past, present
and future when Kylie waltzes back into the Platt living room.
Gail, if she should ever find out (and she will, because this
is soap) will most certainly Do Her Nut.
Elsewhere this Christmas, Marcus entertained his
parents who turned up to have a look at Maria. He was wearing a very
bad Christmas jumper, was Marcus. If he’d still been gay he’d
never had worn it, that’s for sure.
Kirk, Beth and Craig have a lovely Christmas
together with Marcus and Maria, they make such a lovely family
these three, and I do hope 2013 sees Kirk and Beth
wed.
Over at Underworld, Rob’s cooking the books to make
Underworld appear less valuable than it is so that he can go
in there with a low offer to buy it off Carla. She knows Rob’s up to
summat but isn’t sure what, yet.
Fiz’s boiler breaks and Tyrone fixes it but he
hasn’t fixed it properly and it’s leaking carbon monoxide into
the house only Fiz doesn’t know that yet. She thinks she’s
coming down with a bug and stays at home while all the Owens
go off to the Lakes with Chesney and baby
Hope.
And finally this Christmas, there was a love
triangle with a difference developing when both Kevin and
Sophie Webster develop a crush on physio Jenna.
And that's just about that for this week. Remember,
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Glenda Young
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