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Corrie: Eileen's new bloke

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scarevola · 15/10/2011 14:15

OK - he has a secret. But what might it be? He certainly seems to be living with someone - married? Other partner?

(Speculation not spoilers, please! or if you have a good spoiler - could you link it, not post the contents. Thanks).

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NettoSpookerstar · 15/10/2011 14:16

I'm just watching the Omnibus and wondering about it myself.
I may have to wander over to Digital Spy and see what I can find out.

moonshine · 15/10/2011 15:18

This link is a spoiler of sorts so do not look if you want some of the truth and some of the speculation.....

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scarevola · 15/10/2011 16:03

Can I steel myself and not click that link?

I like Eileen, and wish she could just find a nice, friendly, uncomplicated man and actually enjoy a relationship.

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HoneyPablo · 15/10/2011 16:14

I wonder if his wife has a terminal illness and is keen on him finding his new partner before she dies so she knows who is going to be stepmum to their children.
I don't think that has been done before on a soap.

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 15/10/2011 17:58

Isn't that a bit like how Ian beale got together with his most recent wife in EE ( disclaimer, haven't watched EE for years so could be wrong).

Where have I seen Eileen's bloke before?

ShutUppaYourFace · 15/10/2011 18:22

He was in Hollyoaks, think his character was called mike

griphook · 15/10/2011 20:54

I reckon that it's either a domestice violence storyline and he can't leave, or his wife has dementia.

DramaInPyjamas · 15/10/2011 21:08

Apparently it's a storyline never seen before in a soap..
Dementia/illness has been done.. I'm thinking polygamy.

BridgetBust · 15/10/2011 21:16

I just wish they could have found an actor who was taller than Eileen. Or at least the same height.

GoodAndBluts · 15/10/2011 21:20

Open marriage?

Marne · 15/10/2011 21:29

I think the wife has an illness and wants to find a replacement mother for her children and wife for her husband before she dies?

Either that or is an open marriage.

kitya · 16/10/2011 10:41

I just want Eileen to be happy!!!

aupmardybum · 19/10/2011 13:14

Yes, he was Mike Barnes in Hollyoaks and does the voice over for How It's Made. Every time I hear his smug voice and see his smug mug I want to punch him. Don't rate his acting, either.

MurielTheActor · 19/10/2011 19:28

Corrie has certainly done bigamy before. Emily married a bigamist way back in the day... can't remember his name. Something beginning with 'A' Hmm

EdithWeston · 19/10/2011 20:16

Arnold Swain.

Peter Barlow has also married bigamously.

MurielTheActor · 19/10/2011 22:59

Thank you Edith! Should have remembered that...

EdithWeston · 19/10/2011 23:18

I think it could well be a scenario where a wife is permitting an affair, for whatever reason.

Pity - I'd just like to see Eileen in a normal relationship with a nice man.

I do like to see Julie with the headmaster!

Bossybritches22 · 20/10/2011 08:45

Paul was also the nice fireman who sheltered Sally in the tramcrash live episode when she forgot 'er 'at !

crazynannawitchbitch · 20/10/2011 08:48

I was going to say maybe his wife is really a man...but we have had that one too,havn't we? Hmm

EdithWeston · 20/10/2011 20:05

His wife has an early onset dementia?

Bossybritches22 · 20/10/2011 20:46

or they have a disabled child?

EdithWeston · 21/10/2011 07:38

I think we'll find out tonight, as Eileen is set on going round to tell his wife what he has been doing.

I'm beginning to warm to Marcus, and Sean is finally beginning to show signs of being a grown up. There are perhaps possibilities in the Grimshaw household after all (though I wish Rosie would go back on extended leave - much better without her, and the spoiler I've read about her upcoming storyline is the most dreadful recycled twaddle I've seen in a long time).

I wonder how much scurrying round and rewriting has been going on, with one actor on unexpected leave of absence and a couple of others down with disgusting colds.

magentastardust · 21/10/2011 18:49

I'm sure dimentia allready married but falling for another partner has happened before just wracking my brains trying to think which soap?

popadop · 21/10/2011 19:41

Can anyone remember when Peter Barlow tried to rape liz macdonald?

It was ages ago when he first came back.

Makes my teeth itch watching him being all nice to Carla, don't scriptwriters remember storylines?

EdithWeston · 21/10/2011 21:19

I don't remember that at all - what happened?!?

Presumable Eileen is going to agree to be the other woman at some point.