Close Ken and Deirdre first wedding in The faces of Deirdre Barlow. Expand Expand. Ratings winners: Anne Kirkbride with her on-screen husband William Roache. Read More Coronation Street bosses have planned poignant on-screen funeral farewell for much-loved Deirdre Barlow.
TV News Coronation Street bosses have planned poignant on-screen funeral farewell for much-loved Deirdre Barlow Coronation Street's Deirdre Barlow will be laid to rest in a soap funeral months after the death of actress Anne Kirkbride, who played the part for more than 40 years. Galleries Anne Kirkbride as Deirdre Barlow through the years News Anne 'embraced' me on the show from start - Keith Duffy Actor and Boyzone star Keith Duffy has spoken about his heartace over the death of his Coronation Street co-star Anne Kirkbride, revealing she "embraced" him on the show from the start.
Life Anne Kirkbride Corrie's Queen of the cobbles The word icon is overused, particularly when it comes to characters in soap opera. Corrie's femme fatale ANNE KIRKBRIDE, who died aged 60 last Monday, played Deirdre, the bespectacled, careworn femme fatale in ITV's soap opera Coronation Street for more than 40 years, and became renowned for her cracked, throaty voice, caused by chain-smoking in real life, and straining neck cords that were even more alarming than her enormous glasses.
Dr Murray said: "Martyn had his [tattoo] taken away so I am carrying on the baton His body art tribute featured on E4's Tattoo Fixers on Monday. Dr Murray said it was "fitting" to have his tattoo done on the same TV show that did his stepson's in What an amazing and unique tribute to an awesome person!
TattooFixers pic. Dan Hett, Martyn's brother, said the family were "super amazed" at his stepfather's body art. I know Martyn would be howling with laughter at it too," he said.
Martyn's mother Figen Murray tweeted she was "in awe" of her husband's "amazing tribute". She tweeted: "He was in agony for hours but is so proud to have Martyn dressed as Deirdre tattooed on his leg! So in awe of my husband Stuart being featured in your programme. He was in agony for hours but is so proud to have Martyn dressed as Deirdre tattooed on his leg!
Amazing tribute! E4TattooFixers thank you for a brilliant job! An abrupt end to 42 years on the cobbles. My earliest cogent memory of Deirdre was when she found out that Ken had been having it away with brazen hussy Wendy Crozier from the council.
And with the righteous lack of any self-awareness that is characteristic of the truly betrayed, she turfed him out, painting her colours atop the moral high ground. It was these bubble-perm years that crystallised the character for me — Deirdre downtrodden-but-never-out, while Tracy spent years at a time upstairs playing tapes, although higher drama would follow. Her Moroccan toyboy Samir was murdered on the canal, on his way to donate a kidney to Tracy after she made the classic soap mistake of taking drugs for the first time.
Disaster turned to comedy at her touch. I remember the dawning horror on his face as he sobered up and the cat-at-the-cream beam on hers. A smile so wide it seemed hooked over her ears. Coronation Street is matriarchal, and women came in clumps. Murder was always on the cards at No 1, loneliness never. A version of Deirdre survives in The Archers. Lilian has the same raucous gin-and-it cackle, the lifelong inability to do anything domesticated, the dance-in-the-old-girl-yet spirit.
It is something to know that we can still hear, like an echo, that indomitable laugh. Deirdre, as I see you are looking vague, is the one who looks exactly like Montravia Kaskarak Hitari, the Afghan hound which did so well at Crufts and, as came out in the wash last night, she is up to her silky ears in an affair with Mike Baldwin, the sweat shop owner with the squeaky sofa.
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