It's finally clicked with me just now the potential this storyline has... I'm not a big fan of either character, but i'm thinking back to the other night when Tracy was in the Rovers, boasting to Shelley that Charlie could never control her... yet tonight, he is doing exactly that. Is she going to end up going down the same type of route as Shelley... being controlled by Charlie...?!

Actually looking forward to how this is going to unfold now...

I'm loving the storyline but hope she does't becuase Charlie needs something fresh. I think she hsould get pregnant, see how they cope. Perhaps kid is disapled and Charlie changes.

I can't enjoy them and I have tried. Charlie in particular is played so ubelievably bad by Bill Ward. That stupid laugh he does when he opens his whole mouth is just cringe inducing

I'm looking forward to see how they work, could be interesting.

I'm with you, I can't enjoy any storyline that features him because I can't stop looking at his mouth, he pulls it into such contortions. Maybe it's called acting

Or maybe he's gurning on a pill

LOL... munching on his jaw... apparently that's what happens...

Evil gurning Charlie..

I agree with the pregnancy storyline.
but wow did your keyboard have a mind of its own while you were typing???!!!


He really is scary, the amount of work that mouth does... he slaps his lips, opens it wide, and even when he speaks, it opens as wide as poss.

Tracy doesnt deserve to have Amy as her daughter at all. She is so out of order dumping her on Ken and Deirde and up and leaving her just to live with Charlie on her own. Ken and Dierde should report Tracy!. Tracy aint fit to be a mother to Amy the way she treats her.

All i have to say to tracy is "YOU BITCH!!!"

You know you love it when he licks his lips!

i think it would be a good storyline if tracy got pregnant to charlie and steve fought for custody of amy, surely steve wanting amy is obvious, i havent heard anything like this mentioned.

Charlie & Tracy is a wonderful combination. Can't believe it took them so long to get together

I'll to control my keyboard this time. I agree Steve should definetley get Amy the only problem is what then. I think (I know bad idea) that Ronnie is leaving, I'm glad she's so boring. But him just raising Amy will be exceedingly boring. Any women around for him?

it wouldnt just be him though, tracy and charlie would be around to stir things up and im sure they'd come up with other storylines for them. i so wanted deirdrie to say tonight to tracy that if she left she'd give amy to steve!

i think tracy has had that poor child for far too long!

just had a thought, tracey wouldnt be able to fight steve for custody of amy if she wasnt planning on having amy live with her, so this could be a good storyline to see how far charlie can actually control tracey, if ken and deirdrie are both pushing tracey to fight for amy and charlie is pushing her to let amy go this could be a good 'how far will charlie go' storyline

A good pairing I want to punch them both!!

You're looking forward to seeing what could be a carbon copy of his last storyline? Feisty woman turned into doormat?

Wouldn't it just literally be repetitive?!

I don't think it is going to be a repeat of the Shelley story. Charlie seems to be really smitten with Tracy rather than just going through the motions with Shelley.

And I don't believe Tracy would ever let herself get into the same state as Shelley.

Tracy has met her match in Charlie. Steve was a doormat but Charlie will stand up to her.

As for Amy. Poor little mite is best off out of the situation.

Bill Ward said in every interview he did at the time that Charlie really does Shelley, he's just a control freak. Shelley was as feisty and ballsy as Toxic is when he first met her - she just wasn't the poison Toxic is. He turned her into a wreck.

So he wasn't going through the motions with her at all,and if he really loved Toxic - which I don't think he does, except in the physical sense ... then he'd take her daughter as part of the package and he doesn't want the whole package, does he? Amy interferes with sex anytime any place anywhere. That seems to be what he loves Toxic for. And the fact, as he IS a control freak, he needs always, TO control. And he can control them better when he's living with them.

But if they did it right, Tralie could be done so much better than the Sharlie storyline.

Firstly, Tracy is renowned for being such a hard faced cow, she doesn't take crap from nobody. So, it would be interesting to see how far Charlie would actually go with her. And there would always be that warning that Shelly gave Tracy at the back of Tracy's mind. I wonder...

I think that Steve should go for custody on the grounds that Tracy is an unfit mother, and that Ken and Dierdre should be on Steve's side because there's actually only so much you can put up with from your offspring - I know! Despite Dierdre and Dot Cotton I don't think everyone can put up with their kids being complete ar**s all the time without at some point saying "okay, fine, but don't expect me to pick up the pieces!"

It's difficult to see what Ken and Deirdre can do about it. If Tracey says "I'm going anyway, whether you agree or not" then they must take care of Amy, what's the alternative? They won't put her into care, they surely won't ring the Social. They're her grandparents, she's family. And this is what Tracey is banking on.

Charlie has a habit of splitting mothers and daughters up, first Shelley and Bev, now Tracy and Amy.

I don't care how much Tracy protests she loves Amy, NO man would dictate to me "it is either me or your kid" because they would not like the answer .

But are we really surprised she has dumped Amy, after all she sold her to Roy and Hayley