Spoiler:CORONATION Street battleaxe Blanche Hunt is set for a romance - with former Raffles star Anthony Valentine.
Seventies telly heart-throb Anthony plays Weatherfield's new OAP-about-town George Richards.
And Ken Barlow's acid-tongued mother-in-law - played by Maggie Jones - confesses to daughter Deirdre (Anne Kirkbride) that she is "in love".
As well as playing gentleman thief and ladies' man Raffles, Anthony also became a household name as the sadistic German SS security officer Major Horst Mohn in hit TV drama Colditz.
He was also renowned as the psychopathic Toby Meres in the hit series Callan with Edward Woodward.
The 70-year-old veteran Valentine turns up in Weatherfield as the father of Lucy, the late wife of Peter Barlow (Chris Gascoyne) and the grandad of five-year-old Simon.
And George is soon ruffling feathers with Ken (William Roache) who is upset that he's stealing his thunder as well as spoiling their grandchild rotten.
But smitten Blanche welcomes him with open arms, telling Deirdre: "Now that's what I call a man.
"Good looking, good company and loaded to boot. I think I'm in love."
So she sets about impressing him - by telling him she was England's yo-yo champion when she was a teenager.
She says: "I had all the moves. I did sleeper, walking the dog, loop the loop.
"And my speciality was the reverse spaghetti loop the loop."
Blanche boasts: "No one else in the world has ever mastered that like I did."
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