Lloyd and Cheryl

[owenlee4me]

Can we please ditch this storyline, do we care about this relationship, what it the point of it, apart from finding a replacement for a Kelly Lookalike,
I am bored stiff with this situation to be honest, this little trio (Lloyd Cheryl and Russ) could disappear tonight and i would even miss them, a very empty story.

[alan45]

CORRIE'S Chris Gray is back to his bad old ways, as he sets up love rival Lloyd Mullaney.
The wife-beating builder, played by Will Thorp, is embarking on a romance with Maria Connor (Samia Smith) - and the pair sleep together this week.

But Chris is still smitten with his ex Cheryl (Holly Quin-Ankrah), and decides to frame her boyfriend Lloyd for robbery.

He is seen here paying pal Billy (Neil Bell) to burgle Janice Battersby's flat.

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Chris then plants the stolen Battersby bling in the boot of Lloyd's cab, where shocked Cheryl finds it.

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(C) THE SUN

[TaintedLove]

Wow!!! That`s a twist I never expected.

[alan45]

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A police officer takes a shocked Lloyd Mullaney (Craig Charles) to the station after a bag of stolen goods is found in the cabbie's car. Janice Battersby (Vicky Entwistle) looks on in surprise.

[tammyy2j]

Why would Lloyd do it?

[Chloe O'brien]

I wish Corrie would axe these two or at least Cheryl. She is just a moan and Llyod's got really boring since he hooked up with her.

[tammyy2j]

I wish Corrie would axe these two or at least Cheryl. She is just a moan and Llyod's got really boring since he hooked up with her.

Yes I didnt mind Lloyd with Liz or the Morton mother

[parkerman]

Yes, send him back to Red Dwarf. A new series would be good.

[walsh2509]

Aye , with Hayley looking straight at the guy as he ran towards her and turns and looks at him running away, he's tall skinny and white (no his hood was not up). Lloyd's, short and fat and black.

[lizann]

I wish Corrie would axe these two or at least Cheryl. She is just a moan and Llyod's got really boring since he hooked up with her.

Yes there are very boring

[alan45]

Anyone who watched the latest series of Doctor Who will know about the Silence: a race of creepy aliens who only exist when you are looking at them. You can chat to one for hours on end, and the minute you turn your back, they are forgotten.

Steven Moffat has got a lot of kudos for this brilliant idea. However, it's one that Corrie has successfully used itself for the past year. Except their version is called Cheryl.

Cheryl is almost completely forgettable. It's fascinating to see her turn up on screen, because every single time you ask yourself, "who's that?". Barney, David Platt's rabbit, had a greater impact on the Street and its history, and he's been dead for ten years.

She first entered the show as a friend of Leanne's from their escort days. Like Leanne, she's moved up in the world, though while Ms Battersby had found herself a fiance and a business, Cheryl had become a lap dancer. Not so much a step up as a leg up. StreetCars got a contract with Cheryl's club to ferry tired businessmen back to their hotels in time to tell their wives they really loved them, and soon Lloyd was becoming besotted by the lady of the night.

What followed was a low-rent version of Mona Lisa, the classic 1986 British film. Bob Hoskins was nominated for an Oscar for his part in the film; the Corrie version had Lister from Red Dwarf instead, so you can imagine how well that turned out. The Weatherfield version shied away from giving Cheryl an underage lesbian lover, and instead gave her a dodgy husband and an irritating child.

Within weeks she was sporting a black eye, courtesy of husband Chris, and she was sleeping on Lloyd's sofa. Why she ran to Lloyd (a man who was clearly obsessed with her) instead of, for example, Leanne Battersby, or perhaps any other humanoid in the solar system, was never made clear; all we knew was that in her time of need Lloyd was there for her, putting her up rent free and making puppy dog eyes in her direction, which she blatantly ignored.

Dev gave her a job in the kebab shop; her years of sex work had given her a great deal of experience in handling rancid meat. She paused in her work at giving bits of dodgy beef to Jason Grimshaw only to bawl abuse at her ex-husband, who'd taken work with Owen the builder, and who kept coming into the kebab shop and making threatening gestures with a Doner. During all this, Cheryl slept with Lloyd, because the best way to keep a man at arm's length is to get underneath him. She claimed it was a mistake and she should never have done it, but at some point changed her mind and moved into his bed permanently; we were never told why she relented, so I've assumed Lloyd used Jedi mind tricks.

Soon Cheryl wanted to do more than just ask people if they wanted salt on that, so she did what any forthright career minded girl would do: she got her boyfriend to give her a job. She elbowed Eileen off the switch in the cab office and was soon redecorating the place to her own vision; it seems that public transport's gain was interior design's loss. Fat Brenda's views on the new pastel coloured walls and soft furnishings remain, sadly, unrecorded.

Throughout her onscreen appearances, Cheryl managed to display zero charisma, charm or personality; when Chris and Lloyd began fighting over her, their fellow punters in the bar spent most of the time asking "who?". The intervention of a tram into the Joinery was all that stopped the two men from beating each other to death in the most pointless battle since the Charge of the Light Brigade.

Chris moved onto Maria, while routinely glowering in Lloyd's direction, often with his shirt off. While he acted with his pecs, Cheryl chose to act with her hair, and her joyously curly tresses are the most interesting thing about her. In fact, there are rumours that Phil Collinson is negotiating with the hair to continue its role on the Street after Holly Quin-Ankrah leaves.

Now that she had her claws into Lloyd, Cheryl was able to reveal her true, shrew-like personality. It had been kept relatively under wraps before because (a) no-one likes to be harangued by a stripper and (b) Chris threatened to belt her every time she got uppity, but now she was able to unleash the full force of her Hyacinth Bucket pretensions. She dismissed Sally Webster's taste in decorating, pushed her son Russ into the school production like Dina Lohan on uppers, and forced Lloyd to buy the shell of number 13. She conveniently overlooked the fact that her son nearly burned to death in the same house on the night of the tram crash; presumably his psychological well-being is less important than a through lounge.

She's now manageress of Nick's Bistro, once again proving that prostitute and restauranteur are all part of the same service industry. Gail was keen to take the role, but Nick felt that her years owning and running her own cafe were insufficient experience for such a demanding job; besides, Cheryl did a trick with some ping pong balls at the interview and he was sold.

The recent announcement that Cheryl's contract wasn't going to be renewed was met with bewilderment by Corrie fans, mainly because no-one realised she was an actress; most thought she was just a production assistant who read other people's lines when the proper actress didn't turn up. She won't be missed. In fact, give it a few minutes, and you'll forget she was even there

[owenlee4me]

Hey well said, talk bout finding a role for someone in Corrie, that is basically so boring!!!!!!!!!
Oh i so hope they don't renew her contract, watching paint dry is more intersting

[parkerman]

Sorry. alan, I don't know who you are talking about. Cheryl who?

[alan45]

While he is sworn to secrecy about what the future holds for Lloyd on Coronation Street, Craig Charles has revealed that he will be taking a break from the soap later this year so that he can film a new series of cult sci-fi show Red Dwarf.

Talking about his Corrie role, he said: "I've got a great storyline happening at the moment, which will see Lloyd leave in November for three months, because I'm off to film the new Red Dwarf series. Then I'm coming back to Corrie at the end of January. I'm just really glad they've let me do that because I wasn't sure they would at first, they've never done it for anybody else. But it'd have been a shame to have missed Red Dwarf - it'll have been 25 years since we started it. I can't believe it's been that long!"

Craig Charles also revealed his own love of music inspired Corrie writers to make his character Lloyd Mullaney a Northern Soul fan. When the 47-year-old actor is not playing out the dramas of cabbie Lloyd's life or appearing in his other massive hit show Red Dwarf, he is a DJ, with his own Funk and Soul show on Radio 6 Music.

Asked if he had any influence on his soap alter-ego being a soul music fan, he said: "Kind of, yeah. It's nice when your two worlds collide! Everyone at Corrie knew I was into Northern Soul, so I think they tapped into that, made him a sort of DJ and record collector - just like myself really.

Craig will be back in DJ mode to present The Craig Charles Soul All-Nighter: No Sleep 'Til Breakfast from 6pm on Saturday August 27 on Radio 2.

[Chloe O'brien]

I think he should swap houses with Peter & Leanne. Now Cheryl's gone he isn't going to be needing the house it's more suitable for Peter, Leanne and Simon.

[Perdita]

Craig Charles has thanked Coronation Street bosses for giving him time off to film a new series of Red Dwarf.

The new episodes of the sci-fi comedy were confirmed by co-creator and chief writer Doug Naylor earlier this year. Charles previously revealed that he would spend three months shooting at the end of the year.

"It is exciting," the actor told ITV's This Morning. "The last series was 1998 - and we started it in '87... but I'll be back in the leathers, back in the dreadlocks. Everyone is back on board and they are building the sets now at Shepperton.

"It's going to be like the old days, we are going to rehearse, and record it in front of a live studio audience. Everyone's older, but I could still fit in the costumes!"

He continued: "We all really wanted to do it... the only problem was trying to get some time off Coronation Street, but they've been really good to me and given me the time off. It would've been terrible if they went off to do it without me!"

Speaking about his role as cabbie Lloyd in the ITV1 soap, Charles told presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby that he would have liked his late mother to see him in the Manchester serial.

"It wasn't really a big decision - it's one of those things as an actor, everyone wants to be in it," he said. "I didn't think I'd be staying this long but... my mum had died and it was her favourite show and I just wished that she had been alive to see me in it.

"We used to watch it in the house - she'd always have it on, so it was one of those things that 'my mum would would've been really proud of me, let's go and do that'."

[alan45]

Craig Charles, who plays Coronation Street cabbie Lloyd Mullaney, is returning to Coronation Street at the end of this month.
Craig was interviewed on BBC News this weekend with respect to BBC Radio 6 Music's 10th birthday. Craig DJs the wonderful Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show for the station each Saturday and it's a great show, I He talked about working on BBC Radio 6 Music as he's worked on the show since its inception 10 years ago. And he also talked about taking a break from Corrie to film the new series of Red Dwarf, which Craig said would be on TV this autumn.

Asked if he was returning to Coronation Street soon as Lloyd, Craig said he'd be back filming at the end of this month. This should mean we'll see him on screen a few weeks later, so perhaps later April or early May. I wonder what his return storyline will be as Tracy, Amy, Beth and Craig are now living in his old home. Maybe he'll move into the Streetcars office with Steve again?

Lloyd was last seen on Corrie in December last year when he moved away from Weatherfield after splitting up with the awful Cheryl Gray. Lloyd packed up his troubles in old kit bag, wore a natty hat and smiled as he left Corrie to a 10-horn salute from the Streetcars cabs. Before he left, he sold his share of the cab firm to Becky.

[owenlee4me]

blimey never even noticed he was gone!!!
And really is he needed in the show, sorry craig but your bit naff