She Did The Street Some Service

In fairness.

Much-married, milk-bottle spectacles-adorned soap queen Anne Kirkbride (‘Deedreee Barlow’) who has died at 60.

Rivals Mike Baldwin and Ken Barlow and unfortunate toyboy Rachid were among many who fell for drama magnet Deirdre’s pre-laser surgery, wide-framed, and, frankly, puzzling charms.

*tucks into Betty’s ‘hot pot’*

Anne Kirkbride, Coronation Street’s Deirdre Barlow, dies aged 60 (BBC)

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42 thoughts on “She Did The Street Some Service”

everybody January 20, 2015 at 11:36 am

Why are the Irish are so enthralled by English soap opera’s? Can someone explain this is less than 140 characters?

Spud January 20, 2015 at 11:42 am

Same language, higher production values
1. Clampers Outside! January 20, 2015 at 1:28 pm
  
  Yep, sounds about right.
Je Suis Frilly Keane January 20, 2015 at 11:43 am

‘Cause putting the kettle on solves everything

And for dinner, they have their tea

BTW. Whatever happened to Ray Langton?
He disappeared completely. I don’t recall seeing him in an’ting else.
Like DearDrees glasses
1. Scooperman January 20, 2015 at 12:39 pm
  
  Left the St in ’78 and moved to Vegas. Worked in a casino, then as a mortgage broker. Was back on the St for 6 weeks in 2005. Still lives in Vegas. Retired. Wikipedia is gas.
ivan January 20, 2015 at 11:47 am

Maybe because when it’s on form, Coronation St can be genuinely very funny. I’ve not watched it in years, but I remember when I used to watch Phoenix Nights you couldn’t help but think that it wasn’t particularly far from Weatherfield, spiritually *or* geographically.
1. Je Suis Frilly Keane January 20, 2015 at 11:52 am
  
  Haven’t watched it in years meself
  But Fred the Rovers bottle n keg man always made me laugh
  
  And Reenee (corner shop) had a brother who was good craic
  And Uncle Albert, Bet, Mavis all great characters tbh
  1. ivan January 20, 2015 at 11:56 am
    
    Who could forget Des Barnes giving Mavis and Derek the cannabis plant as a gift…it was those tiny subversive winks at the audience that made it. I remember another time Steve McDonald was being huntd down by some unsavour types, and they tracked him down to the garage – the entire sequence was a homage to a scene in Pulp Fiction…as I say, when it was good, it was great.
    1. Je Suis Frilly Keane January 20, 2015 at 3:16 pm
      
      D’ya remember when that was Brian Tilsey’s garage?
      Gayle’s first husband
Joe the Lion January 20, 2015 at 11:58 am

I can do it in <30 characters.

Mindless braindeads everywhere.
1. Holden MaGroin January 20, 2015 at 12:03 pm
  
  Says the man who just used the word “braindeads” like it’s in common usage. Get over yourself.
  1. Joe the Lion January 20, 2015 at 12:22 pm
    
    members of your immediate circle are also braindead?
2. rotide January 20, 2015 at 12:53 pm
  
  Anyone who likes stuff that Joe dislikes is a ‘Spa’ and a ‘braindead’. They may also be ‘Cappers’, ‘Retarded’ and very possibly ‘Bennys’
ahjayzis January 20, 2015 at 11:59 am

Because they’re good telly even though being British it’s completely alien to us in every possible cultural way.
1. Janet January 20, 2015 at 12:17 pm
  
  yep it’s just so exotic..
  1. ahjayzis January 20, 2015 at 12:23 pm
    
    I mean what’s a ‘the kettle’, when it’s at home? Who is Nora and why is she flaming? She sounds Irish! Feckin Brits burning Nora!
Formerly known as @ireland.com January 20, 2015 at 12:45 pm

How anyone, who isn’t stuck at home, watches that rubbish, I will never know.
1. Don Pidgeoni January 20, 2015 at 1:33 pm
  
  With their eyes?
rotide January 20, 2015 at 12:53 pm

Next thing you know they’ll be watching Australian and American soaps too!
Niallo January 20, 2015 at 10:36 pm

Same reason we are so enthralled with their football teams, we are a poor cousin, always have been, probably always will be, just look at the content (or lack thereof) on our national tellybox stations compared to theirs.
Why do we watch corrie ? Cos its not fair city, thats why.

Disasta January 20, 2015 at 11:45 am

Worthy and the attention it’s getting.

Not.

Don Pidgeoni January 20, 2015 at 11:52 am

And yet here you are contributing to that attention.
1. Disasta January 20, 2015 at 12:47 pm
  
  I know that didn’t escape me.
  I’m a quivering ball of shame.
  1. Don Pidgeoni January 20, 2015 at 1:19 pm
    
    Or, you know, a moany gee-bag
    1. Richard Faraday January 20, 2015 at 2:35 pm
      
      charmer
    2. Don Pidgeoni January 20, 2015 at 2:38 pm
      
      Shut up and kiss me Richard
    3. Disasta January 20, 2015 at 4:15 pm
      
      Gee-bag…I haven’t heard that in years. Fair play.

Anthony Finucane January 20, 2015 at 11:55 am

Rest in Peace Deirdre Hunt-Langton-Barlow-Rachid-Barlow. Your stuffed marrows and chain belts will be missed.

Holden MaGroin January 20, 2015 at 12:04 pm

Ah remember the poor Rachid fella. Was he stabbed?
1. Mani January 20, 2015 at 2:35 pm
  
  I think it was a Samir of Sam kind of deal.
2. Anthony Finucane January 20, 2015 at 9:51 pm
  
  Yeah. Down by the canal. Tracey has one of his kidneys.
Kieran NYC January 20, 2015 at 3:27 pm

Ha!

Bertie Blenkinsop January 20, 2015 at 12:07 pm

She was a good actress with great comic timing.

May she rest in peace.

Murtles January 20, 2015 at 12:17 pm

Poor auld Deerdreeeee, if what happened to her down through the years happened to anyone in real life they’d be looking for an excorcist or a witch doctor or any form of voodoo to get rid of whatever curse that made them the unluckiest person in the world (and immediatley move away ta f**k from the hellhole that is Coronation Street).
Sad to hear as she was a young enough woman and it was only late last week I was reading in a paper she was returning to the show. RIP.

Fairhill January 20, 2015 at 1:03 pm

She’s had a tough year one of her main husbands having the Paedo court case must have been streeful

Mani January 20, 2015 at 1:28 pm

I’d wager she was very streed.

K January 20, 2015 at 2:07 pm

Poor Ken and Trayssehhh.

Mani January 20, 2015 at 2:36 pm

Old Trace-e or new Trace-e?

Mr. T. January 20, 2015 at 3:28 pm

Idiots mourn death of fictitious character.

Idiots don’t realise soap operas dull their senses and make them feel their lives are just a bit better than tragic and to be grateful for small mercies so they remain docile and complicit instead of rising above their stations and living their own lives to the full.