Coronation Street

refering to the scene where tracy saw ronnie whilst shopping
didn't sombody say they saw the location scene being filmed some weeks ago

noticed in the sun this week that mike reveals all the corrie secrets, just like , martin, curley, alma, etc

every time somebody leaves, the sun has them revealing corrie secrets, it's a bit predicable, in 20 odd years time we'll have 'amy barlow or josh peacock reveals corrie secrets' or which every actor has left

with reference to amy changing heads. i've said it before, soap children are time lords, she's just regenerated

Could easily be worked into the storyline - after all would Tracy notice if she picked up the wrong child one day?

kevin did that once with baby rosie and didn't noticed until he changed the nappy (he'd brought baby david home by mistake)

i think clare did that with josh once as well

it's a common soap storyline which gets recycled every so often

BBC News reports the death of Lynne Perrie, who played Ivy Tilsley for 23 years. She was 75.

Her famous appearances on 'The Word' singing I will Survive, Television X -Appearing to lick a mans ... and her wonderful performance in the 1994 classic Adult Pantomime, Mike Reid's 'Pussy In Boots' playing Poison Ivy. I will stick my autographed photo of Lynn up in my student house living room for me and my friends to remember a woman who provided so much to talk about.

We know kids change in soaps all the time, and parents never notice. It's more noticable when it's the older kids- like when Ian Beale's kids changed last year. It's funny, as if my kid came down in the morning, several inches taller, with different colour hair & his voice had broke overnight, I'd be inclined to say something!

IIRC her leaving Coronation street wasn't entirely amicable - she had cologen injections in her lips which weren't entirly compatible with her role.

After being suspended she started to believe her own publicity, went on The Word etc and then got killed off

Things have obviously changed alot since my student days

God, you sad bug ger.

Here is the full article;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4844998.stm
Street actress Perrie dies at 75

Lynne Perrie played interfering Ivy Tilsley in the soap
Former Coronation Street actress Lynne Perrie, who played Ivy Tilsley, has died at the age of 75.
Perrie, who played the factory worker in the top-rated ITV1 soap from 1971 until 1994, died on Friday night after suffering a stroke.

A family statement said the actress had died "peacefully".

The actress, who had a leading role in the Ken Loach film Kes, later published a book on her time in the soap, entitled Secrets of the Street.

A statement released on behalf of her brother, actor Duggie Brown, said she died with her husband and son at her bedside.

The statement said: "Derek and Stephen were with her and she died peacefully."

Film role

Born in Rotherham in 1931, Perrie was best known for the role of "Poison Ivy" Tilsley.

Her character was renowned for interfering, either in the factory politics of Mike Baldwin's business or in the personal lives of her son Brian Tilsley and his wife Gail.

Ivy Tilsley also formed a formidable double act with her work colleague Vera Duckworth, played by Liz Dawn.

Her character died off-screen a year after Perrie left the show in 1994.

Perrie played the mother of the lead character in Loach's film Kes, about a young Yorkshire boy whose imagination is gripped by a kestrel.

She also appeared as nosy residents association secretary Mrs Petty in the 1970s ITV Diana Doors sitcom Queenie's Castle.

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Im quite shocked by this news. I liked Ivy, Bert and R Brian. I didnt like it when they married her off to Don Brennan though, and then killed the character off, off screen. Very Sad news.

Very sad news about Lynne Perrie's death. Didn't she suffer a stroke around the mid-late 1990s? I ask that because on a clip show around 2000, I remember her being interviewed and her voice sounded quite slurred.

RIP Lynne. Thanks for the memories.