The scene with Nick was lovely and moving, they are much better friends than lovers. Jane did a fabulous job.

I'm in two minds for Leanne and Peter to get back together, Peter treated Leanne like dirt after the separation and a lot of water has been put under the bridge since then (custody battle, Peter marrying Carla, Leanne marrying Nick and then getting with Kal etc) but they worked so damn well together, such a gorgeous couple, their family unit was brilliant.

I wonder when Chris Gascoyne will return as Peter full time, or is that starting when he returns for Deirdre's funeral


Thanks, I am looking forward to this, to see how Leanne reacts to this but it's going to be so sad to watch their relationship disintegrate

Jane is on 'This Morning' in the morning btw.

What an actress! I know there are some wonderful actors across soap, but few can move me like Jane Danson can. Here scenes with the Nazirs were breathtaking.

I agree.
Yes, and I think that for the first time in ages, Leanne will belong to a family again.
Les, Toyah, Janice, they all left. Stella arrived but really IMO Janice had been more of a Mum to Leanne than a newly-arrived biological mother. Stella's mother arrived and left. Eva arrived and left, albeit temporarily.

I think the bedroom thing was purely to drive the plot – it allowed Tracy to think about murdering Carla and mess around with the candle without realising that Amy was there.


BIB: I am an Arsenal fan. Plenty to be happy about at the moment. I thought Southampton did brilliantly last season considering all the players that left.


I thought that there were a few too many holes in the fire story line to make it as good as I'd hoped it would be. That said, Jane was excellent throughout. Leanne went through a lot and all of it was so believable. Her shocked, almost blank reaction when they pulled the body out "I need to know, I need to see him," was an understated and stark contrast to Yasmeen's howling, which I couldn't help but laugh at!

Although it is kind of annoying that the blame culture always starts up so quickly in the soaps, I can quite understand why Leanne was quick to have a go at Carla. After all, as Leanne described in the dialogue, it felt like the same thing was happening to her again – she'd lost everything at the hands of the other woman. I'm interested to see how it all might go forward with them.

Agreed that they broke the news to Simon in a sort of patronising manner, he's nearly 12!

After Zeedan's initial grief-stricken anger, I'm really pleased that Leanne and the Nazirs have all been brought together. I think it's led to some of their strongest scenes together. The bit on Monday where Leanne went to see them was wonderful – Alya's sadness coupled with delight; Yasmeen giving Leanne the ring; Zeedan gently tapping her on the shoulder.




For me, Leanne and Nick's scene on Friday was the best scene of the whole week. No dialogue, just him holding her while she cried, it was fantastic.

Ken said - You still have Simon, and Deirdre and me.

Simon will behave way out of character towards her soon, and Deirdre will be no more soon. Then there will be Ken and, thank goodness, Kal's family.

I agree with this, whilst I really enjoyed Leanne's relationship with the Price's, it was never as good as the Battersby's. Janice would always have Leanne's back and fight tooth and nail for her, no matter what she had done. They really needed to develop Leanne and Stella further, it was like 30 years was swept under the carpet after about 6 months. I thought they did really good with Leanne and Eva, it took them 3 years with ups and downs to become good and close supportive sisters. Not as good as Leanne and Toyah but a bloody good substitute.


I love Arsenal!

Jane has been fantastic again all through this week, especially the funeral scenes, her facial expressions and crying are on par. Like you say, there is a massive contrast between Jane and the rest of the Nazirs.

I can understand Leanne blaming Carla as you automatically blame someone when an event like this happens and the way Leanne sees it, Carla has destroyed yet another one of her relationships and now has Nick but I hope this doesn't drag on for months on end like Karl etc and Tracy does get her comeuppance. I wonder if Leanne and Carla will ever rebuild from here, as they were just starting too recently after Peter and that took about two years. Jane said on 'This Morning' that there is lots of interesting stories ahead for Carla and Leanne, so I wonder where it goes. I have a feeling it will keep building up until the live episode and then the climax of this story will happen.

The Nazirs are so much more bearable when they are supporting Leanne, the scenes that we got throughout last week were fantastic to watch, especially Yasmeen giving Leanne the ring. You could see them supporting each other through all the tough times.



I have been really enjoying seeing Ken support Leanne this past week, even though Peter and Leanne haven't been together for years it's so nice to see Ken still cares for Leanne and is there in her times in need like in the aftermath in Kal's death and going to the funeral. He's seem to taken a nice supportive father figure in a way.

Has the domestic abuse storyline been and gone?

I think it is only the start.

*creeps in sheepishly*

Hello all

Leanne's having so much thrown at her now (literally!) so I really, really, really need to get back in the habit of logging in here more often.

Gracie, I saw your thread on the main forum and I'm trying to figure out if The Hat hates Leanne Whacked by Nick, Kal dead, Simon thumping her and now a psycho ex-client who used to knock her about...why is she suddenly the Street's punchbag?? I mean it's great that JD is actually getting material after that period not so long ago where she effectively vanished, but all this misery is a bit much. Give the woman a break!

Just what I posted on the main forum:



MsWilder! How are you?

Poor Leanne, she's lost the love of her life and now she's getting kidnapped by PC Quinnan I can't wait for the fabulous performances from Jane.

I am pleased they are revisiting her past, hopefully we get to see Leanne talk about her prostitution days as Leanne didn't talk about it much after the Paul fiasco and since then it has only been mentioned to put Leanne down (Tracy, Natasha etc). I still remember the scene when Janice found out Leanne was a prostitute in a hotel, you could see the hurt and disappointment in her eyes but Leanne was doing what she thought was best, it was heartbreaking to watch. One of my favourite Corrie scenes ever.

I can't decide whether Blackburn likes Leanne or not either, first she is given almost nothing to do for 18 months. Blackburn obviously hasn't heard of the word moderation.

Thank you.

Hello, everyone.
Yes, from the spoiler, I think it will be awful, and there will be no going back for Simon and Leanne, the end of the road for them, he will not want to know the "Mum" that he loves / loved after he is told about her part of her previous life.

As much as I don't want to see Leanne's character being tortured (and that unfortunately seems like the route Corrie is taking), I am really looking forward to Jane's performances.

[quote=trevon1;78569009]As much as I don't want to see Leanne's character being tortured (and that unfortunately seems like the route Corrie is taking), I am really looking forward to Jane's performances./QUOTE]

Yeah I hope they can salvage Simon and Leanne's relationship like David/Gail but even that took ages..

Hi, Gracie! *waves* I'm doing a little better, thanks. Hope you're well?

In a way, I'm glad that part of her past is being brought up again; I think the last time it was referenced was when Nick announced it to the Nazirs (?) and then Leanne scurried back into the flat and broke down crying Obviously it's one of those things she's genuinely ashamed of so it's going to be horrible to watch Simon find out about it.

BIB - Maybe he had a load more misery planned for Carla but since AK is "taking a break", The Hat's redirecting it at Leanne!



I don't think Simon and Leanne's relationship is going to be written off; going by The Hat's MO, the 'resolution' willl probably be a quick five minute chat with Zeedan making Simon see the error of his ways, Simon will apologise to Leanne, she'll hug him and everything will go back to normal.


It's a double-edged sword, isn't it?

Hi! I have shin splints Painful to walk and run, doctor told me no exercise for two weeks. And I'm off to physio tomorrow.

That was awful to watch, it's bad enough having it mentioned to random people and neighbours, but pretty awful when it's your future in-laws. Tracy mentioned Leanne's prostitution days when Leanne had a row with Tony in Barlows Buys about Tony under paying Zeedan. I really hope Simon doesn't turn it against Leanne but he inevitably will.

BIB - then never to be mentioned again and swept under the carpet, sort of like Miss Hell's other 'son'.

Oh no! How've you ended up with them? Wishing you a speedy recovery.


Ahhhh, but then murdered trumps escort


I think TPTB realised just how hideous that SL was but, unfortunately for them, viewers remember...


I'm also not looking forward to the eps with the news about Deirdre I'm also not confident that The Hat's team will handle it as well as it should be handled; I mean that just doesn't sit right with me, but I'll hold off judging it as a whole until I see it.

I play hockey a lot and have just really have upped my exercise these past few months and it's all flared up.

Leanne has done nothing illegal


Mind you, anything has to be better than Betty's non funeral with Stella rifling through her stuff

Oh dear Feel better soon! I imagine lots of rest is in order


I know it'll be a depressing watch but Deirdre/AK deserves the focus to be on her impact on the Street; I don't want it to be mixed in with a load of needless 'drama' or have it fighting for screentime with other, crappy SLs.

BIB - Yeah, as much as I liked Stella, it was totally wrong to shoe-horn her into the Betty stuff. I know Collinson wanted as much screentime for her as possible but when long term characters like Betty go, then the characters involved should also be the long termers.

Yeah I really liked Stella too but that was something she should have stayed out of, Betty's death was very disappointing.

Legs are starting to feel a bit better but the endless physio has began. Have been playing hockey again and thats been giving them a good stretch.

Ooh nice to see the Leanne and Dan storyline kicking off last night, very interesting to see how this leads to Dan..

http://www.ok.co.uk/tv/coronation-st...battersby-andy

I'm beginning to think Deirdre's is going to go the same way, judging by tonight's offerings

Glad to hear you're on the mend; Physio should help a lot.


Dan is such a sleazy creep; makes my skin crawl. Eugh!

Simon's turned into a right little shiz, hasn't he? I half wanted Leanne to unleash the Battersby within on him and give him a good smacking round I feel so sorry for her though, she looks so defeated right now I suppose that's natural though considering she's lost Kal, Simon's gone demon on her and Sleazy Dan is going to make her life even more of a misery.


What a fab photo

That really did make me especially Jack. He seems like such a cool guy to hang out with.


Last night's episode was a shambles, the writing, the acting and especially the b-side version of Stan's death with Ken opening Deirdre's glasses. I never though I would say this but Kate Ford saved the day.


Every time I see Dan, I see PC Quinnan from my days of watching The Bill Honestly I want to punch Dan one, surely he would do the decent thing and leave. In fact he would be doing himself a favour by leaving McMutton. Though I am really looking forward to this, it does seem quite exciting, about time Jane had some decent screen time. But I hope it doesn't have a disappointing climax like the Jenny and Jack storyline.


I found those scenes on Monday really hard to watch, I dread how I am going to manage for the rest of the storyline. Simon was such an ungrateful brat, it's not like Leanne has enough on her plate with loosing Kal and the way he ditched his birthday tea with her, really made me want to punch the computer screen. I agree with you he could with could smack on the wrist. Also I felt a tiny bit pissed off that Carla came to the rescue looking like an angel with the right shoes, as if Leanne Simon's verbal abuse wasn't bad enough, they had to make Carla seem superior to Leanne It's just awful watching Simon and Leanne's relationship disintegrate.

Nice to see some normal scenes with Kylie and Gail in the Bistro amongst all this misery with Simon and Dan. At least she still has some friends.

Hope all are beginning to get better.


Carla seems to have forgotten that Leanne saved her life.