Where exactly IS Billy's parish?

The church and rectory seem to be in the middle of the countryside.

I have to admit I find him incredibly creepy, especially when he smiles.

Exactly, is he ever out of the sodding Rovers?
He must be addicted to that foul, watery-looking orange juice he's always drinking.

I'd be more inclined to feeling sorry for Clayton rather than Sean.

He whines on about how all of his relationships fail and every partner he has leaves him, but who's the one that causes the problems? Him. He humiliated Marcus at work by storming in and accusing him of having an affair and he was constantly demeaning Billy's job by asking him what the 'gossip' is after someone confided in him. How are you supposed to trust someone like him if your drug taking brother turns up in need of help? Sean is far too immature to have a serious relationship.

I don't blame Eva for telling Billy about Sean's pettiness with the hotel. He only called to re-book it because she forced him to. Then it turns out someone made a complaint about Billy and Todd to the Bishop - of course she's bound to think it's him and she'd already tried talking sense into him after the hotel thing, so the only option was to tell Billy, as his friend. Ok, so it turns out that it supposedly wasn't Sean who complained to the Bishop, but I still wouldn't have put it past him. It's the kind of petty thing he'd do.

Also, since when were Sean and Todd best mates? Sean has always been closer to Jason and Todd even set out to lead Sean on back in his revenge days. Todd may be trying to consider Sean's feelings now, but they were never close friends.

I agree with those that say Sean doesn't deserve sympathy after how he's treated other people's problems. He's completely two faced and bitchy, one minute he'll be acting like someone's best mate and then he'll be gossiping behind their backs as soon as someone happens in their lives. Now the shoe is on the other foot and he can't handle it.

I can't stand his constant moping and self pitying. That episode after he found out about Billy and Todd was torture, I'm glad Phelan told him to grow up. And all this whinging about turning 40 when he's stuck in the same situation he was 10 years ago due to his own choices. He's never taken the initiative to get his own place, he rarely bothers with his son and he hasn't bothered to look for a new job if he's so unhappy at the factory and the pub.

He's literally a teenager in a grown man's body.

It wasn't Eva's place to blab to Billy at all & certainly not without being in possession of the facts!! She spends all her time these days poking her nose into other people's business when she would be far better concentrating on her own!! Aidan couldn't have made it any more plain if he slapped her across the face & drew her a diagram that he doesn't want to live with her, at least not yet, but she's so busy interfering in other people's lives it's gone straight over her head!!

What facts? That Sean had already tried causing trouble for them then something else happens, which Sean wouldn't be above doing. Billy deserved to know if Eva thought Sean was meddling with his relationship.

The facts of whether it was Sean who had told the bishop or not!! All she needed to do was confront him first, it's not exactly difficult to tell with Sean!! Instead of that she caused trouble where there needn't have been any, lost any future trust with Sean, who's also supposed to be her mate, and into the bargain made Billy into the one in the wrong for accusing Sean without knowing it was him!! She then has the nerve to get all uppity when Sean had a go at her!! I'm no great fan of Sean as a character but at the moment I'm finding Eva far more irritating!!

Thank goodness someone else feels the same as me. She stands there with that incredibly gormless expression on her face and wonders how she could have caused such trouble.

What a pity she can't read Aidan's badly hidden signals that he doesn't want to live with her instead of nosey-parkering about in other people's lives. Grrrrrrr!!

She is another character who goes from dozy to bitchy in a matter of moments and yet no-one seems to remember the nasty things she has done. One of her silly laughs and all is forgiven.

She is mainly decorative. I think they have failed by giving her this type of character. She doesn't have the acting ability. Sally portrays this type of interfering personality - so much better........

She may not have the acting ability but she does have a fine big neb and that's good enough for me.

First thing he should do is get a flat on his own, then expand his horizons away from Weatherfield.. Canal St in Manc would be a good start.

Self-pity isn't going to solve it, laws of attraction means nobody will want someone who sends off that negative vibe.

yES, BUT BEING WATERSHIP(?) CHILDREN WILL DO ANYTHING FOR ATTENTION,,,,,,,,,,,THUS BEST LEAVE SUICIDES OUT(SORRY FOR CAPITALS)

Try to forget her fine big decorative neb & concentrate on the essentials 😉 Meaning.... her acting ability which may/may not result in a plausible story- line 👍

Agreed. Sometimes we press the send button a little too quickly and the intent is not meant as it comes across. We are getting better at it though when it's called to our attention from time to time. I guess that's why we have the benefit of capital's.

Todd was never his BFF. he was not forced to move out of his home, he was only a lodger , a man of 40 should have his own place anyway. Eva is Billys friend too and did nothing wrong telling him about Sean acting like a child and cancelling the room Todd booked.

Before sean met billy and times he has been single they used to mention him goig to canal street or town or to gay bays quite a lot. Then as happens when you get older that has tailed off

Good on you Stigid for posting what loads of us on here think about this whole business.

We all know that gay men kiss, but personally I absolutely cringe when I see a slobbery clinch coming up in a scene. I always look down or turn my head away.

If you're a straight person - irrespective of your gender - can you honestly imagine what it must be like to French kiss a friend of the same gender as yourself?

As Stigid says ... Yuk!

Corrie have never given Eva the chance to show any real acting skills. It would be good to see her do something other than being high maintenance and self-obsessed.

A big nose?

They ought to give her more of an edge. She's be a much better character. And they should ditch that stupid laugh.


This. ^^^ Although they could at least try and give her more character than 99.9% gormless and 0.1% bitch.

Can't believe how I started a thread on here last week about how Sean can be bothered to continue falling for these men that dump on him from a great height and nearly got my head chewed off for the trouble.

It made me sick to listen to Billy last night about how he wants to continue with his Gods work. What the frigggin hell?

What is remotely religious or moral or even good about Billy? He's a twitchy, selfish, self serving, gurning creep.
The way that Billy treated Sean by allowing him to think that he was something different, if he's supposed to be a reverend, he is supposed to take life and relationships a bit more reverently too then. Not to be the sort of person who pretends to be in a stable loving permanent and devoted relationship,( which he did convince Sean off) and then suddenly run off with someone like a drooling lech. It makes me sick also how he looks at Todd. He gazes at him like he hasn't had a square meal in months and Todd is a big juicy pork chop. Nauseating.
He's totally consumed by lust and seems full of his own opinions without much concern for other peoples.
Also the way he talks about his 'flock' makes me heave. It's like a subtle reference to all the parishioners being a bunch of sheep who need Billy's guidance not Godss!!

I do feel sorry for Sean. He has been looking for someone to love him back unconditionally. You could see how he would have been convinced about Billy's sincerity. Look how long it took them to iron out all their problems as though it all mattered just for him to find out Billy's just another promiscuous liar.

And why did Billy become a vicar when he obviously wants to live a very different life?

And his smile is really really creepy. Creepy and crawley. Ugghhh

Did you ever think maybe Sean doesn't like living alone? Some people just prefer to live with someone for the company. As for Eva I get that she is Billy's friend too but before going to Billy with her theory on Sean she should have asked Sean first. Also Billy was out of line for showing up at Sean's job to tell him off. That was so unprofessional for anyone but especially for a pastor.

It's amazing how some can overlook Billy's faults just because of their dislike for Sean. Billy could burn down the church, but people would still see him as a "nice guy" because Sean can be self-obsessed.

I could say more, but notdebbiedingle, Mark_Washingto1 and even AndreaMC have summed up things good enough.

If any vicar, paid by the church to preach morality, were to be having sex in the church house with a succession of girlfriends/boyfriends/village goats, he would be out on his ear immediately it came to the attention of the bishop.

The vicar is a joke, Sean is well rid of him (even though his character is so deplorable!).

I thought about this and IDK how things are in the UK but here in the US we have a lot of pastors that preach against homosexuality but are on the DL, or cheating on their wives with other women or preaching about tithing and using the congregation's money to but a Benz, Lexus or a fancy house. So given that Billy with all his issues is very much like every other man of the cloth