List of Coronation Street characters introduced in 1989
7 Coronation Street in the name of Rita's dead ex-husband Len Fairclough and had the letters addressed to the shop so she wouldn't find out.After leaving the security business, she worked as an estate agent and showed Mike Baldwin and Alma Sedgewick around a new flat on a new dockside development known as Weatherfield Quays.Alison Oakley, played by Helen Swift in 1989 and Shelley Willetts in 1998, is a woman who Brian Tilsley meets in a nightclub on 15 February 1989 after splitting from his wife Gail.As Nigel was a top brewery director, Tina thought she'd struck gold and started taking liberties at work by not turning up for shifts and demanding a raise.However, when Tina, bored of Percy Sugden (Bill Waddington)'s war stories, told the pensioner that he was barred, Bet sacked her on the spot herself.As Nigel was a top brewery director, Tina thought she'd struck gold and started taking liberties at work by not turning up for shifts and demanding a raise.However, when Tina, bored of Percy Sugden (Bill Waddington)'s war stories, told the pensioner that he was barred, Bet sacked her on the spot herself.She first appears in June 1989 when she tries to convince garage manager, Kevin Webster not to encourage Mark's interest in banger racing.Wendy worked for the council and had an affair with Ken Barlow (William Roache), which led to his divorce from his wife, Deirdre (Anne Kirkbride).[1] When Mervyn Watson joined Coronation Street as their new producer, he felt that the serial "needed gee-ing up slightly" and set about making changes.[6] While working as a secretary for the council's Planning Committee, Wendy begins leaking information about corruption to Ken, owner of the Weatherfield Recorder.They eventually begin an affair and Wendy decides to leave the newspaper so Ken can use the excuse of having to run the office by himself to stay out late.Wendy tells Ken that a year after they parted, she married a man called Christos Papadopoulos and moved to Norfolk.In 2022, Abi Webster (Sally Carman) is placed under the supervision of Wendy - now an experienced foster carer - as part of her attempt to regain custody of her infant son, Alfie.Maurice Jones, portrayed by Alan Moore, was a property developer who built the east side of Coronation Street in 1990.Josie Phillips, portrayed by Siobhan Finneran, was a packer at Baldwin's Casuals who then transferred to the sewing room after the departure of Shirley Armitage.He reassured her that her job was safe but didn't believe him and was proven right when Mike sold the factory to Maurice Jones, who demolished it to build a new development.The three lived in relative harmony - Reg as a member of the Square Dealers – until he was posted by Firman's Freezers to their Lowestoft branch, which meant a long commute.He also reprised the role in 2010 for the DVD special A Knight's Tale, in which he worked for former colleague Curly Watts as an event planner at Tatlock Towers, a medieval castle and tourist attraction.A few years later, Callard's agent called and told her that the soap's series producer, Mervyn Watson, wanted her to come in for an audition as he had remembered her.[7] The character was married to Jim McDonald (Charles Lawson) and they had twin sons; Steve (Simon Gregson) and Andy (Nicholas Cochrane)."[8] Renee Dodds, played by Christine Cox, was a store detective for Bettabuys, who had an affair with Reg Holdsworth, who was a married man.She was subsequently dismissed in December, believing it was Renee behind the sacking, but it was actually down to Curly Watts' staff assessments that led to the decision.Marie, who was suffering with PND, dumped Jamie on Eddie and he began to raise him alongside his mother at 1 Cromwell Street.Jamie Ramsden was the son of Eddie, who was initially raising him as a single parent due to his mother, Marie Lancaster was suffering with PND.Steve's storylines include his many marriages to Vicky Arden (Chloe Newsome), Karen Phillips (Suranne Jones) twice, Becky McDonald (Katherine Kelly), Tracy Barlow (Kate Ford) twice, and Michelle Connor (Kym Marsh), as well as Tracy giving birth to his daughter Amy (Elle Mulvaney) and also depression.In September 2015 Gregson announced a break for personal reasons, and Steve was off-screen from October 2015 to 22 April 2016 after going to Spain to visit Andy.[12] The pair had "great fun" as they memorised fight sequence choreography to make it appear as though Andy and Steve were "having a real go at each other".[13] Cochrane told Rob Sharp in the book The Official 1997 Annual of Coronation Street that he loved arguing with Lawson during filming."[12] He makes occasional returns to his former home, attending remarriage of his parents and the wedding of his twin brother, Steve, where he serves as best man.