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Soapbox: A defrocked vicar, 666 and Cilla!
Rachel Broady28/10/2005
CORONATION STREET Forget Charles and Camilla, forget Charlie and
Shelley, the wedding of the year is upon us as Cilla and Les walk
down the aisle, knuckles dragging at their sides.
The unlovable lumpen prols are using a defrocked vicar and
hijacking a church for their nuptials and Fiz is appalled. She
should get a petition for their eviction. In fact, you'd think Les
and Cilla would've been ASBOd by now; him banned from wearing that
snake skin jacket and her from dressing in a naughty nurse outfit
on her hen night.
But Cilla manages to pull a young man in that outfit. Then the big
day arrives and she ends up with kiss curls on her forehead looking
like 666. Then the cake turns out to be rotten, the church is
locked and the Quo arrive - all wearing neck braces.
Meanwhile, Jason is wooing Violet, so I assume the chippy's getting
a bit more business. He wants her to be his date at the wedding but
the lucky thing is working that day. So when he arrives alone and
notices Sarah has too - after Scooter proved too lazy - there is a
bit of electricity, apparently. If it were triggered by their
brains it wouldn't be enough to spark a fairy light.
EMMERDALE Betty waits at the airport for Seth and is inevitably
heartbroken when Kath tells her that he died of a heart attack
during the flight. Convenient and tawdry, I think. Betty also finds
out that Seth had been ill for a while and had stayed away in
Australia so as not to burden her with his suffering and so she
wants no part in his funeral.
But the regulars raise a glass for him in the Woolpack - with a
crate of booze arriving from Kim Tate, no less - and the funeral
arrangements get under way until Betty decides to cancel the
cremation deciding he needs a better send off and an eco coffin.
Eventually all the villagers raise a final toast to the man who
hasn't lived in their village for ages...yet no one is even
mentioning poor Zoe Tate! I feel like we're being asked to indulged
the cast and writers a little too much!
EASTENDERS Hello mum! The sound of Grant is still ringing in my
ears. As is the sound of Phil, breathless and red-faced, from the
exertion of getting out of a car. Yes, the two unhealthiest
gangsters since Phil Collins played Buster are back. And the
scriptwriters, relying on the nostalgic return to bring in viewers
get Grant to snog Sharon as Dennis peers from the other side of the
bar. It's nothing if not predictable.
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