Queen of Soaps? Not a chance!

[optimisticcynic]

I have never liked Corrie and feel no adulation for Julie, so feel able to say there are other more worthy candidates for the title Queen of Soaps. Here are my top 5. Who are yours?

1. Joan Collins - Alexis Colby (The Colbys)
2. Linda Evans - Krystle Carrington (Dynasty)
3. Anne Haddy - Helen Daniels (Neighbours)
4. Pam St Clement - Pat Butcher (Eastenders)
5. Linda Evans - Sue Ellen Ewing (Dallas)

Don't think Julie would make my top ten as I haven't even touched on Home and Away, and have only allowed myself one from Eastenders and Neighbours.

[flamingGalah!]

I think she is Queen of Soaps...

UK soaps at least ;)

Oh & Sue Ellen is Linda Gray :p

[Niamh.]

Here's the real Queen of Corrie :

http://i.imgur.com/3HJiN.jpg

[Ellen]

Apart from Eastenders none are British.
Julie was the Queen of the uk soaps & personally i think Angie was better than Pat at the Queen vic.

[optimisticcynic]

I think she is Queen of Soaps...

UK soaps at least ;)

Oh & Sue Ellen is Linda Gray :p

Good call on Linda Gray. They were formidable, especially Joan and the two Lindas and are huge globally. Julie has unfortunately begun to believe the big brother hype. I have no idea about the Corrie hierarchy as the show was not for me. Still appreciate that others loved it...

[optimisticcynic]

If she's only been on one soap forever, how can she be queen of them all? All she's done is play the same character for years. Actor friends of mine say that would suggest a lack of range, though it may just be that such a lifetime commitment prevents you from doing anything else.

[HBB1508]

I hate Corrie just the theme tune makes me cringe but from my limited knowledge of it the one person that I will always remember is Ena Sharples (Violet Carson) and not Bet Lynch - I dare say in her day she was thought of as the star but sadly times have changed and moved on.

[Kazanne]

Here's the real Queen of Corrie :

http://i.imgur.com/3HJiN.jpg

That's more like it Niamh:hugesmile:

[chuff me dizzy]

In her own deluded head ,dont forget the utter BS when she left there was 100` of 1000s of people from all around the globe waiting to throw roses at her,when she left Corrie , where were they when she needed them to save her last night ?

[chuff me dizzy]

Here's the real Queen of Corrie :

http://i.imgur.com/3HJiN.jpg

Dead right !!!

[joeysteele]

Julie Goodyear for a fair number of years in her time as Bet Lynch was definitely the Queen on soaps on TV.
She was massively popular in that role, a role and character that still heasn't been completely killed off yet.

[Kazanne]

June Brown(Dot Cotton) is much more a soap legend than julie Goodyear she is older and carries herself with a lot more grace than the awful woman who just left CBB,she is a much better actress too.

[chuff me dizzy]

June Brown(Dot Cotton) is much more a soap legend than julie Goodyear she is older and carries herself with a lot more grace than the awful woman who just left CBB,she is a much better actress too.

Yes a LADY too

[boomoo]

Here's the real Queen of Corrie :

http://i.imgur.com/3HJiN.jpg

Vera Duckworth rose to fame after Bette Lynch.

[Angus]

Jean Alexander (Hilda Ogden)
Pat Phoenix (Elsie Tanner)
Doris Speed (Annie Walker)
Sarah Lancashire (Racquel Watts)
Beverley Callard (Liz Macdonald)
just a few off the top of my head and every one of them could have acted the leopard skin leggings off of Julie Goodyear and were bona fide legends. JG is an utter disgrace as any sort of ambassador for Corrie and she couldn't act her way out of a paper bag.

[minty3]

June Brown(Dot Cotton) is much more a soap legend than julie Goodyear she is older and carries herself with a lot more grace than the awful woman who just left CBB,she is a much better actress too.

100% agree with this she is a ledgend

[optimisticcynic]

June Brown(Dot Cotton) is much more a soap legend than julie Goodyear she is older and carries herself with a lot more grace than the awful woman who just left CBB,she is a much better actress too.

Good Lord! How could I have forgotten Dot? Now there is a Nana!

[Kazanne]

Good Lord! How could I have forgotten Dot? Now there is a Nana!

Love the 'Dot Cotton' character and she plays it so well,and June Brown is a lovely woman.

[Nedusa]

June Brown(Dot Cotton) is much more a soap legend than julie Goodyear she is older and carries herself with a lot more grace than the awful woman who just left CBB,she is a much better actress too.

I have to agree when comes to an acting master class there are few better than June Brown aka Dot Cotton.

A consummate professional in every sense of the word, she gets my vote every time.

[waterhog]

Here's the real Queen of Corrie :

http://i.imgur.com/3HJiN.jpg

good old veria duckworth.

[Patricia4]

Julie is the queen.

[Withano]

You should change your name to pessimisticcynic. You're so grumpy all the time!

[Heaven = Winner]

Vera and Dot are the Queens of Corrie and Eastenders imo, respectively.

I also think Peggy Mitchell could make a reasonable Queen of Soaps too.

[smudgie]

nah, never ever Queen of Corrie, far too many ahead of her. She was only playing herself really as well, hardly hard work, a common uncouth vulgar hag playing a vulgar uncouth hag, how hard could it be.

[optimisticcynic]

You should change your name to pessimisticcynic. You're so grumpy all the time!

Another life-altering suggestion. Thank you. I shall think long and hard about it this afternoon.

[Jake.]

You should change your name to pessimisticcynic. You're so grumpy all the time!

:joker:

And I love how what we saw from Julie from CBB is being brought into it, despite being completely off topic.

[sarakss]

I hate Corrie just the theme tune makes me cringe but from my limited knowledge of it the one person that I will always remember is Ena Sharples (Violet Carson) and not Bet Lynch - I dare say in her day she was thought of as the star but sadly times have changed and moved on.

I'm in the US and decided to watch a few episodes of Eastenders and Corrie. Eastenders was not bad and kept me entertained... for a soap. Corrie was terrible, and the music gave me the creeps from the start. I watched one episode, tried to watch another, and had to stop - it was rubbish from beginning to end. Extra thumbs-down for that awful theme. If the Bates Motel ran a commercial, that would be their jungle.

When I heard that music, all I could envision was Julie dressed head-to-toe in tacky leopard print, sucking on her ciggie holder and flashing her yellowed veneers at me as she chomped on that phantom piece of chewing gum.

[Scarlett.]

Queen of Soaps? She's crap, she returned in 2002 stayed to record an episode and then quit, forcing tonnes of rewrites, queen of soaps, my arse