Jenny Bradley

Jenny Connor (also Bradley) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, played by Sally Ann Matthews.She returned for four months from 18 February 2015 after meeting Kevin Webster (Michael Le Vell) through online dating, and they began a relationship.She is seen to develop an obsession with his young son Jack (Jaxon and Maddox Beswick), which culminated in Jenny abducting him, before being found in Hull, where she is arrested by police, leading to her departure on 15 June 2015.Jenny was fostered by Rita Sullivan (Barbara Knox), following the death of her mother, Pat, in a road accident.Aged seventeen, Jenny ran off to France with Martin Platt and met a medical student - Patrice Podevin (Franck Dubosc), whom she ended up falling in love with.Rita moves to Blackpool, but her absence makes many residents think Alan has killed her and he becomes the object of widespread hatred and suspicion.Jenny blames Rita for his death and begins to study Biology at Manchester Polytechnic the following year.Jenny drops out of her course after becoming bored and starts an affair with married dentist, Robert Weston (Philip Bretherton).[3] Jenny is revealed to be the woman that Kevin Webster (Michael Le Vell) has been talking to on a dating website.Kevin asks her to come to The Rovers Return Inn, but she tells him that she wants to put the past behind her and wonders how Rita would react to seeing her again.Rita was distraught and Jenny stormed out of the pub because of Norris Cole's (Malcolm Hebden) nasty comments.Maddie realises that Sophie was right when she goes home and finds that Jenny has packed a bag for Jack and is wearing a brunette wig.Jenny mentions that she didn't mean to hurt "Tom", and a shaken Maddie manages to escape, only to be killed by an explosion triggered by Tracy Barlow (Kate Ford) setting fire to Carla Connor's (Alison King) flat in Victoria Court.He had died aged four in May 2013 after apparently being left unsupervised in a paddling pool– with Jenny believing that Jack could take his place.Jenny is upset when Gemma Winter (Dolly-Rose Campbell) tells her that Rita has been suffering from memory loss.Jenny and Johnny's new life as newlyweds doesn't go off to a great start when they find the factory empty of furniture and even without the roof intact.Jenny later finds out that Johnny had an affair with Liz McDonald (Beverley Callard) although she forgives him as he was grieving for Aidan.In October 2020, Jenny learns that Johnny was involved in a robbery over 40 years ago with Scott Emberton (Tom Roberts).In May 2021, Jenny learns that Sharon Bentley (Tracie Bennett) is working with drug lord Harvey Gaskell (Will Mellor) and that she is behind Sam Blakeman's (Jude Riordan) kidnapping.Relations between Jenny and Johnny remain amicable and it is clear there is still a spark between them even when she begins dating younger man Leo Thompkins (Joe Frost).Matthews decided to leave the programme in late 1990 and made her last appearance on 1 March 1991, in which Jenny moved in with married dentist Robert Weston.Matthews chose to leave in order to prove herself as an actress: "I hadn't been to drama school, I am northern and I had been in a soap.Bosses of the show revealed details of the storyline which would see Kevin making a connection with a mystery woman online.Jenny has also turned to the online dating site after a nasty divorce and was pleased to find Kevin's face among the profiles, as she reveals that she had a crush on him when they were younger.When Jenny comes back, she meets people that she has never met before and they are nice to her but then somebody will have a word in their ear and attitudes change."[5] On 19 April 2015, it was reported by The Sun newspaper that an upcoming plot would see Jenny kidnap Kevin's young son Jack."[10] Producer Stuart Blackburn also offered his thoughts on the storyline, praising Matthews for exploring the difficult subject matter with sensitivity.Hawley admitted that he was surprised about the storyline as he thought Johnny would more likely begin a romance with Liz McDonald, portrayed by Beverley Callard."[11][12] In March 2016, it was announced that an upcoming storyline would see Jenny return to Blackpool along with Johnny for a holiday together - the last time she was there was when her father Alan Bradley (Mark Eden) was killed by an oncoming tram in 1989.
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