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CORONATION STREET

as Corrie’s Max overdosed on spinach? Is there any other explanation for his having sprouted up 3ft in lockdown? Yes, it’s a different actor, but there’s not a smidgen of similarity; he’s also undergone a personality transplant. Yes, Little Max had problems, but Big Max looks as if he’s eaten three of him for breakfast and still had room left for several Big Macs.

Corrie’s Todd transplant has worked because the character had not been around for aeons, although his transformation into the devil incarnate was never wholly convincing. Now, however, they’ve paired him with undertaker George (played by the hilarious Tony Maudsley), and, lo and behold, another great Street double act is born.

Changing actors is always a bigger problem than characters returning in the same guise. Eastenders’ Janine has returned as if she has never been away, although her born-again maternal instinct is about as convincing as her firefighting skills.

Likewise, Emmerdale’s Bernice slotted right back in. Men everywhere, beware. Janine and Bernice haven’t changed their spots as far as guys are concerned.

Dotty to Sonia, about the latter’s new squeeze, Eastenders

HAIR-RAISING

Hair is always the default switch when major storylines about serial killers and adulterers have run out. Here’s another one, following the revelation that Rita had secretly been having her hair coloured by Claudia rather than Audrey. Well, who could blame her? Audrey’s hair has looked in need of a topiarist for decades.

When Gail arranges a birthday meal, Audrey loses it, and heads out in her car before she hears a crunch – a shocked Gail tells her that she has backed into Rita’s car (pictured). Hang on… since

EDUCATOR OF THE WEEK ‘Keep your head down and copy someone else’s work.’ Shona to Max, Corrie

TOO MUCH INFORMATION ‘I was glad I was wearing earplugs.’

when did either of the women have a car? And why, if they do own them, have they not been arrested for drink driving, when they’ve been over the limit for about five decades?

Toyah, meanwhile, is distressed to discover that Imran has lied to her. No surprise there; he’s been lying to his clients for years about being a hotshot lawyer. Maybe if Toyah shut up for two minutes and stopped indulging Shrinksrus.com (seriously – she’s as bad a therapist as he is a lawyer), then she would stand a better chance of finding out who he really is.

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