[Billy]

i think shes going to die

[Scarlett.]

I hope she will be okay...but...I dont think she will be

[Scarlett.]

Update:

Veteran Coronation Street actress Maggie Jones is in a critical condition after being rushed to hospital, Digital Spy can confirm.


The 75-year-old, who plays Weatherfield legend Blanche Hunt, was admitted to Hope Hospital in Manchester at the weekend for life-saving surgery.


It is thought that the soap star has now undergone an emergency operation, though full details are yet to emerge.


A Coronation Street spokeswoman confirmed to DS tonight that Jones remains in hospital.


She added: "Our thoughts are with her family and everyone wishes her a speedy recovery."


More soon.




Sounding a bit more hopeful

[\PJ/]

If she did die what would happen?

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by PJJ

If she did die what would happen?

On the show you mean? Well I guess Thursday's Corrie would be dedicated to her, she would have to be written out, and maybe 'die' in the soap a few months later, like when Stan died

[Mrluvaluva]

hope she pulls through and gets better soon.

[Scarlett.]

We will have to sit and hope, all Corrie fans will be hoping for her recovery

[Scarlett.]

Youtube video

One of my favourite Blanche scenes

[Tom]

Poor Maggie

I hope shes alright, but the way 2009 has gone with celebs .....

Thats 2 things now in the past few months, I think either way Blanche will be leaving the street in the next few months

[Scarlett.]

Yeah, I dont think she will be staying when she gets out (or if )

[\PJ/]

I love old women on TV there so hilarious!

[Callum]

Aw no, I love Blanche. She's brilliant on Corrie, I never watch it much, but whenever I do her one liners always crack me up. Hope she gets better.

[Scarlett.]

I hope so too, from the sound of things she is gonna make it (I hope)

[Scarlett.]

Much-loved soap star Maggie Jones has been hastily written out of Coronation Street after she was admitted to hospital.
The 75-year-old actress, better known as sharp-tongued battleaxe Blanche Hunt, needed an operation.
Maggie did not want the nature of her illness disclosed, but friends say she is “quite poorly”.
Yesterday, cast and crew on the hit ITV soap were hoping she will make a full recovery.
In the meantime, scriptwriters have had to write out her character for the foreseeable future.
Maggie’s comic timing in delivering Blanche’s acerbic barbs and witty one-liners have won her a clutch of awards.
Most recently she picked up the Funniest Performance gong at this year’s Inside Soap Awards. But she admitted she wasn’t impressed with her character’s sharp tongue.
“I don’t find her funny and don’t think I could play her properly if I did,” said Maggie, who won Best Comedy Performance at the British Soap Awards in 2005 and 2008.
“Blanche genuinely believes what she’s saying is right, and doesn’t say things for comedic effect. If I started trying to play the lines for laughs, they wouldn’t come out right and the performance would suffer.
“Everyone knows someone like Blanche – or if they don’t, they wish they did! We’d all like to be as outspoken as her and have the nerve to say the things she does.”
This is not the first time that injury has seen London-based Maggie sidelined from the Street.
In April last year, shoulder and knee problems kept her away from the set for several weeks.
limped
Maggie was hurt after falling at the Manchester hotel where she lives during filming. She insisted she was OK and even limped the couple of hundred yards to the Granada studios.
But the medical staff there sent her straight to accident and emergency, where her injuries were discovered to be far more serious than first thought.
Maggie has played Deirdre Barlow’s straight-talking mum since 1974, although Blanche’s appearances in the soap have been erratic.
She appeared consistently from 1974-1976, before being reduced to occasional appearances over the next two years.
She appeared briefly again in 1981, 1996 and 1997 and resumed a full-time role in 1998.
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BLANCHE’S BEST BARBS
Blanche on Liz McDonald: Skirt no bigger than a belt, too much eyeliner, and roots as dark as her soul!
Blanche to Ken Barlow, talking about his university reunion: Did you tell them you wash cups in a cafe for a woman who used to be called Harold?
Blanche to Ken: You’re going to have to start taking pleasure in the misfortune of others, Kenneth, or you’re going to have a long and unhappy old age.
Emily Bishop: I wish I was three again.
Blanche: Oh yes, rickets, TB, rationing... Those
were the days!
Shelley Unwin, at the altar, having told the congregation that she will not marry Charlie Stubbs, tells him: You are destroying me. You do go with other women. I’ve seen it with my own eyes! And you made me feel it was my fault! You made me feel scared, you made me feel inferior. I can’t trust you! I can’t marry you!
Blanche: Do you think they wrote their own vows?
Becky throws away her engagement ring after learning Steve McDonald first gave it to Michelle. Blanche to Steve: That’s the second fiancee to chuck that ring away. You’d be better off buying a boomerang!
Ken: Don’t turn off the TV on my account.
Blanche: Don’t worry, it’s only Jeremy Kyle, I’ve more or less been living that show this year.
Liz McDonald enters wearing a low-cut, sparkly mini-dress: Morning, all. What do you think?
Deirdre Barlow: Oh, I say, you look very glam!
Tracy Barlow: We don’t normally dress for breakfast.
Liz: No, this is for me job interview.
Tracy: What job?
Blanche: Prostitute.


The Mirror

[Scarlett.]

CORONATION Street legend Maggie Jones was fighting for life in hospital last night after rupturing her spleen in a fall.

The telly veteran - who plays battleaxe Blanche Hunt - has had major surgery and was said to be critically ill.

Widow Maggie, 75, was diagnosed with the life-threatening condition after suffering the horror fall at her home on Sunday.

She is being treated at the Hope Hospital in Manchester where doctors believe the next few days are vital.


Last night frantic bosses were writing her out of all immediate scenes and breaking the grim news to co-stars on the ITV soap.

A Corrie source said: "Our thoughts and prayers are with her at this difficult time.

"Everyone here is wishing her a speedy recovery and we hope she's going to be OK.

"We're keeping our fingers crossed because obviously she is one of the elder members of the cast.

"There's a very real chance her career's over and the character of Blanche will be off screens for good.

"Even if she manages to make a full recovery she wouldn't be filming again until Christmas, which will keep her off-screen until mid-February at least.

"It's devastating news for fans. She's a very popular actress and has a massive following on the show."

The spleen is an organ in the upper abdomen that removes old red blood cells and recycles them.

In April last year Maggie was ruled out of filming for several weeks when she hurt her knee and shoulder after a fall at a Manchester hotel where she stays during filming.

Maggie made her Corrie debut in the 1960s as a policewoman and put in another guest appearance a few years later.

She first starred as Deirdre Barlow's mum Blanche in 1974 and became a regular cast member ten years ago.

Since then she has won an army of fans with her put-downs and cutting one-liners - winning awards for best comedy performance in a British soap in 2005 and 2008.

With her trademark scowl and "don't mess with me" folded arms, she berates Deirdre and son-in-law Ken.

In one classic snipe, she said: "Good looks are a curse, Deirdre. You and Kenneth should count yourselves lucky."

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz0Tm0CBDQe

[Scarlett.]

The Corrie cast and crew are wishing actress Maggie Jones a speedy recovery.
Maggie who plays acid-tongued Blanche Hunt, was taken ill at the weekend.
The 75-year-old was staying at a hotel in Manchester at the time. She has had an operation and is recovering in hospital.
A show spokesman said: "We are all thinking about Maggie and wish her a speedy recovery. She has been written out of scenes whilst she recovers. Reports that she fell and had a ruptured spleen are totally inaccurate, but the nature of her operation is private."
Blanche is a much-loved character famous for her hilarious one-liners and everyone at Corrie hopes Maggie will a make good, quick recovery.

[Braden]

what's corrie going to be like without blanche !

[Scarlett.]

Not half as funny as it used to be!

[Jackie]

I wonder how they will write her out,hope she gets better soon.

[Scarlett.]

She might go to see some friends

[Scarlett.]

The condition of Coronation Street actress Maggie Jones has improved slightly following major surgery.

The star, who plays Blanche Hunt in the soap, was seriously ill in hospital after falling ill.

"There has been an improvement this afternoon in Maggie's condition and she seems to have turned a bit of a corner," a spokesman for the soap said.

It is not clear what sort of operation she has had, but she has been written out of any scenes for a while.

Several newspaper reports had claimed that the actress, best known for her Blanche put downs, had ruptured her spleen, but that has been denied.

"She's had an operation and obviously she's in her 70s. Our thoughts are with her," the spokeswoman said.

"She's been written out of storylines for the time being, everyone's wishing her a speedy recovery."

'My beautiful Maggie'

Jones has appeared in the ITV soap as Deirdre's mother regularly since the late 1990s.

Her fellow actor Bill Tarmey, who plays pensioner Jack Duckworth, said his thoughts were with the actress.

"My beautiful Maggie," he said. "She is a delight, she is wonderful and I am just hoping she will be OK.

"We just sit and laugh together and I need her to get better otherwise I will be sitting on my own."

BBC News

[Scarlett.]

Coronation Street's ongoing Tony Gordon plotline is to take a new surprise twist as the Weatherfield villain reveals all to a stunned Roy Cropper (David Neilson).

The businessman's conscience gets the better of him as he lies in hospital after suffering a heart attack on the Street.
In scenes to be broadcast later this month, things start to go wrong for Tony (Gray O'Brien) following the 12-month anniversary of his decision to arrange the murder of Liam Connor (Rob James-Collier).

With Carla (Alison King) back in Manchester and threatening to destroy his new life with Liam's widow Maria (Samia Smith), Tony resorts to increasingly desperate measures to stop his crime from being exposed. He approaches henchman Jimmy Dockerson (Robert Beck) to silence Carla for good, but eventually has a crisis of conscience and decides to stop the planned murder at the last minute.

Arriving at Carla's flat, Tony watches his nemesis hitting Jimmy over the head. Mistakenly believing that Jimmy is dead, Carla agrees to let Tony hide the body and promises to leave Weatherfield for good in return for the favour.
However, just as the sinister entrepreneur begins to believe that his problems are over, he collapses on the Street's cobbles due to a cardiac arrest.

After café owner Roy discovers Tony, he immediately calls 999 and accompanies him in the ambulance. Later that night, believing he is about to die, Tony drops a bombshell in his hospital bed by confessing all to Roy.

As Roy reels from the news that the businessman is a killer, Tony's life support machine alarms go off, leaving viewers to wonder whether his confession will be his final act.


See the pictures here

[Scarlett.]

How does it feel to be back at Corrie?
"It really is the strangest thing - you just walk in and it was nice saying hello to everybody in the green room and stuff but all of a sudden you're on set. It was just me mainly at the start, so apart from one scene with Rob [Beck] - who plays Jimmy - it was just me and the crew in my flat, so it was brilliant - and really, really funny. Banter as usual and you're like, 'But that is my first day, is nobody going to make a fuss?' and of course nobody does because they're all onto the next scene."

You're back for a short period then you're going off again – how do all the dates work out? When will we see you?
"I'm back on screen for two weeks and a lot happens. Then I'm off screen for about three weeks and then full steam ahead. I'm back filming full-time now, though."

Your return's quite a seminal point in the storyline, too…
"It sparks the beginning of the end for Tony and where I stand with it all. It's all about whether I tell anyone about Tony killing Liam. It's big stuff. If everybody does find out - which I'm sure they will - my name will be muck and I'm going to be on my own again. I don't know who they're going to get for me to play with because unless my brother gets out of prison I'm going to be hated by everyone again!"

Where's Carla been?
"She's been to LA - and there have been about six million references to LA in case you'd forgotten where Carla was! I think she's been with an old school friend. So the one person she's kept in touch with apart from the Connors has a place in LA, so she runs off to visit her any time she's got a problem, which is nice."

What's her motive for returning?
"I think it's just Carla saying, 'I miss the urban grime, I'm sick of wall to wall sunshine'. No, in all seriousness, I think she's probably sick of hiding. You know how it's great to go on holiday but she's made a few roots in Weatherfield and she doesn't have many, so I presume that she does miss the urban life. It's everything she's built up. That's her only empire and she was quite good at it so she can't believe that Tony's holding off contacting her. She's had a bit of time to get some balls back, too."

She returns for baby Liam's christening…"I think Leanne told her about Maria, so that's probably one of the factors for why she's back. I don't know whether she's heard about the christening or not but she's probably thought, 'I can't let this go on'. But at the same time, she's thought of a beneficial way it might suit her to get the factory back."

Where do we first see her?
"We see her at the graveside in hooded Scottish widow-type fashion! I think it reads like she's arranged to meet him there, which is all quite gruesome, but quite poignant I suppose. I guess in storyline terms, we're near Liam's death so it would be nice if it were all dark and mysterious. I think it's just a reference to his death and that's the place to make him feel under most pressure I guess. My first words when I see him are, 'You're late'. It just goes to show that Carla's completely in control when she comes back - the ball's in her court."

How does Tony react?
"Carla tells him, 'Stop doing what you're doing with Maria or I'll tell her, everybody else and the police that you killed Liam'. She's not going to make it easy for him but he's pretty manipulative himself and whether it's going to be the easy or the hard way you'll have to wait and find out…"

What do you make of Tony and Maria?
"With Maria, Tony has what he's always wanted with Carla. Tony and Maria are the leftovers - they're what Carla and Liam didn't really want. Tony'll be damned if he's going to let Carla screw it up now he's worked so hard to get where he wants. But it's sick - he can't carry on that way forever, not in Coronation Street."

Then there's a shock turn of events involving Jimmy…"Yeah, the fight… I think Tony says something like, 'I want her dead'. Tony wants Carla out of the way and Carla wants him out of the way, so I keep arranging to meet him but he doesn't show up and I'm left with this skulky figure of Jimmy standing in front of me. Carla ends up fighting for her life and there's an amazing twist, too. It just shifts the control again. The ball's in Tony's court… Tony's so controlling of Carla and in her panic, she has to flee again."

What's it feel like to be a new mum?
"Daisy's just here sitting on my knee - she loves the phone, she'll probably try to eat it in a moment! I blew dry her hair last night and she loves that, too. She comes out of the bath and it's all wet - she's not got much at the minute. She loves it when I blow dry my hair, so I put it on this low heat and blew dry her hair into this spiky quiff, it's hilarious and it's kept for today! She looks brilliant.

"Being a new mum runs over you like a steamroller at first. I was working quite hard up until the birth and then the birth resulted in an operation - I had to have an emergency C-section. Then it's just pure hard work and I never realised it would be this hard! The sleep deprivation is just exhausting but she's excellent and so funny now. She's worth everything."

Was it hard to leave her at home and return to work?
"Oh yeah. When I went back to film Carla's return, it was the first time I'd been away all day from her, but it makes it doubly nice when you do come home. I was racing to get home before she went to bed and when I got in, she was upstairs having her nappy changed. She's got really good hearing. When I came in she had this massive attack of excitement that normally only happens when daddy walks in the room, so I was really pleased!"

Have you taken Daisy into the studios yet?
"I took her in a few months ago but she's entered a new phase of life where she's so alert and the different things that have been dangling in front of her for the whole five or six months have now just taken on a whole new world. She's excited by everything. I'm going to take her onto the Street again, and even though she won't understand it, she'll get a whole lot of attention."

Does Carla still have any feelings for Tony?
"No. I think it's complete disdain and he's a piece of poo on her shoe now. She's really got it in for him and what's even more sick and twisted is the fact he's with Maria. It just makes Carla feel a little bit sick. I suppose she's a little bit jealous because Carla wouldn't be Carla unless she had all the attention, would she? It just doesn't make any sense to Carla and she's had all this time to think… She's probably got a boyfriend in LA, actually - they could bring him over! He could be called Frank the Yank!"

Who else on the Street do you think Carla would set her sights on?
"It can't be Steve McDonald and it can't be... There's actually nobody for her! I always thought - and it made me giggle - that her and Dev could make a ridiculous couple. But actually, I think she's just got to have a bit of fun next time - that could be the way forward. I know she likes being looked after but she's done that twice now and it's gone horribly wrong, both with Paul and Tony. Her true love was Liam and he wasn't 'all that', was he? He didn't have cash to flash around."

Do you think Carla Gordon's the new Elsie Tanner?
"[Laughs] Full steam ahead! I just wish I had some of those blouses and her pointy boobs - they were brilliant!"

Why do you think fans love Carla so much?
"I don't know… I think a lot of women like her ego and she's quite real. She's quite gobby but also quite driven. Everyone would like to be a bit like that - to be able to say exactly what they want, when they want and walk with their heads held high and their high heels on down the street jangling their keys and going, 'Oh, get lost - I don't care what you think!' I had a woman come up to me once who said, 'I like Carla, she keeps it real!'"

Kim Crowther promised that Carla will come into her own in the new year…"I've no idea what's happening! Carla's got nowhere to hide now and I think she'll do things to save herself at first, which will make everybody hate her. So with that and how damaged she already is, you're going to see more of a bitch than we have done - and I think that's probably what they all need in the factory."
Digital Spy

[BigSister]

Is really looking forward to tonight ^_^

[Scarlett.]

Does Carla return on Monday? lol or tonight?