As you will hopefully have seen, yesterday I launched my first poll on the Coronation Street Blog. I hope you've all been voting! In order to help you make up your minds on your favourite Corrie mum, I'm going to post some blogs on the contenders this week, highlighting some of their strengths and weaknesses! I shall try to take an even handed approach (not easy!)
So moving on from the Barlow duo, we come to our next two contenders: Michelle Connor and Gail McIntyre!
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| Michelle & Steve ponder if this really is Ryan |
Let's start off with the fragrant, effervescent Michelle Connor. When we first met Michelle in 2006, she was a singer - with two soon to be dead brothers and a moody son who rarely spoke. Now she is knicker factory entrepreneur with two dead brothers and a moody son who says too much. We shouldn't be surprised she hasn't noticed son Ryan has aged, and changed both shape and heads given her track record. Ah yes. I couldn't really discuss Michelle's track record as a mother without mentioning the debacle that was the Ryan/Alex storyline.
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| Go on Michelle, tell us which is which |
Strengths:
1. Her survival instinct. Michelle has beaten the curse of death that circles her family (so far). 2. She has always supported her son - recently helping him through a very short lived drug addiction. 3. She provides for her family, having dragged herself up from part time singer to knicker factory mogul without so much as a qualification to her name.
Weaknesses:
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| What was she thinking? |
Now we come to Gail. Ah yes. Gail Potter Tilsley Platt Hillman McIntyre. As you can tell it's all about the husbands with our Gail. First there was Brian, father of Nick(y) and Sarah-Lou. She married Brian twice after sleeping with his cousin and getting divorced. Brian was then stabbed to death (not by Gail). Then came toyboy Martin, father of David. Martin had an affair with that Geordie nurse, then had a relationship with a teenager and was last heard of in Liverpool. Then came Serial Killer Richard Hillman, who tried to bump off several old friends, herself and her entire family. And then came Joe who tried to fake his own death, but unfortunately succeeded, leading to Gail being banged up in a cell with Tracy Barlow.
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| What was she thinking? |
Strengths:
1. Her family means the world to her. 2. She always bounces back, no matter what life throws at her. 3. She always supports her children - she stood by Sarah-Lou when she became pregnant with Bethany, and David every time he does something horrible.
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| What was she thinking? |
Weaknesses:
1. She has turned into mother-from-hell, Ivy Tilsley. 2. She inflicts her dreadful taste in men on her family, time and time again. 3. She was very recently prepared to ditch her family and run away with her mother's ex-boyfriend.
And don't forget to vote for your favourite Coronation Street Mum before the winner is revealed on Sunday 10 March. Next up will be Stella Price and Audrey Roberts! I can't wait!
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11 comments:
We don't know that much about Michelle's parenting skills. She arrived on the Street with one teenager and he was hardly onscreen. Since the drugs episode, she's hardly spoken to Ryan. Oth, we have watched Gail grow up and have observed her life with each husband and her wayward children. Michelle's a nothing mum (0)while Gail's a smother-mother (-5).
Gail is one of those mothers for whom the sons are substitute boyfriends. That is, until a man shows some attention. Then she forgets her boys. Neither of these mothers have heard the word 'discipline'. A disgrace to motherhood.
What do you mean one of Michelle's weaknesses is going on a cruise with a member of Boyzone? - I highly resent that - 'No Matter What' still makes my heart beat faster. :0 I totally agree with all else in your description of Michelle's attributes and flaws.
Let's just say your taste in television redeems you ChiaGwen! ;)
Gail is pure evil genius. If Shakespeare was alive today he'd be proud to create a character so foul and poisonous.
I don't think that makes her a good mum though.
What's wrong with me? I really like Gail (except when they write her stupid). If only she had a purposeful job...
I can't wait for the favorite Dad vote, because that hands down has to be Tyrone. He never had real parents until he was taken in by the Duckworths; essentially he had no childhood. Yet he was able to do the painfully right thing and give Jack to Kevin, and he has also been a superb caregiver to Ruby under the worst situation. I can forgive him the ridiculous attempt to run away - the man was at the end of his rope and only trying to do what was best for his daughter.
You forgot to mention their yummy-mummy factor. After all, Michelle goes out of her way to share condoms with her son when she's not striding around in her lacy knickers in front of his horny young friends. Gail's so hot that she once had Jason try it on with her! *shudder*
Completely agree with Janice that Gail uses her sons as substitute boyfriends. I think that certainly makes her more creepy than Michelle, who has obviously chosen to just ignore hers (real or not).
That's like choosing between tripe and liver.
They both suck.
How is Gail a bad mother? Her only crime has ever been to fall in love. And she has become the mother-in-law from hell only because she has been graced with the daughters-in-law from hell: the sulky and superior Leanne who has broken Nick's heart many times and the volatile and often vicious Kylie, who 2 weeks ago was gloating about shoving the woman who welcomed her into her house and family and raised her son into the box bedroom! That is nasty behaviour.
Leave Gail alone.
I'm not sure either Michelle or Gail would want to be compared to offal, Anonymous!!
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