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ExDancer Thu 30-Sept-21 13:09:43

Corrie is about to lose another viewer if this thread about Audrey being an unsafe driver just because she's reached her 80th birthday.
If there's going to be a country-wide brainwashing campaign to rid the elderly of their driving licenses I for one will switch off for good.
Does anyone know how to contact the programmers?

Charleygirl5 Thu 30-Sept-21 13:13:29

I agree, they would be better employed suggesting everybody had been vaccinated.

libra10 Thu 30-Sept-21 13:14:32

I agree with you!

They have a Facebook page

www.facebook.com/CoronationStreet

Also Twitter twitter.com/itvcorrie

You could add your comments.

Galaxy Thu 30-Sept-21 13:42:08

I thought it was linked to the rather tedious storyline of too many cars on the street rather than about Audrey in particular, but I may be wrong, my viewing of it is erratic.

Namsnanny Thu 30-Sept-21 13:45:33

I agree. My heart sank when they went on and on about it.

Visgir1 Thu 30-Sept-21 13:50:48

It will be an eye problem, I'm sure.
tbh I wouldn't want her near my hair tho '

MamaCaz Thu 30-Sept-21 13:51:07

And I thought it might be about the ageist attitude and assumptions of the other characters towards Audrey, until I saw that they were showing her squinting at things, suggesting that at the very least, she does have some issue related to her vision.

Whatever the storyline turns out to be, I hope it is more entertaining than it seems at the moment.

ExDancer Thu 30-Sept-21 13:52:06

libra10 thank you. I suggest, if you all agree, that if it continues we flood the Facebook page with our complaints. We older drivers get enough flack as it is.

Calendargirl Thu 30-Sept-21 14:24:41

Does Audrey still do hair? Did the salon get sold along with all the other houses when the dastardly Ray and Debbie were doing all their wheeling and dealing?

TBH, at the risk of incurring the wrath of GN, at 81, I think Audrey deserves a bit of retirement.

But yes, think the poor eyesight will be a wake up call for eyesight tests for us seniors.

Kate1949 Thu 30-Sept-21 14:29:19

She's only 77 in real life. I wonder how she feels about being 'aged up'. I don't suppose she cares as long as she's getting paid!

Sarnia Thu 30-Sept-21 16:12:26

I take it you haven't noticed her swigging from a hip flask. That's why she keeps saying others are calling her a lush.

Aveline Thu 30-Sept-21 17:16:39

All this sneaky drinking of Audrey's is completely new and goes along with her new personality. Pathetic writers. Audrey deserves better.angry

Galaxy Thu 30-Sept-21 17:19:43

Is it? There has always been heavy drinking in Coronation Street, I would say both audrey and rita are heavy drinkers.

Kate1949 Thu 30-Sept-21 17:20:50

Also, Audrey is very stylish so I'm not sure why her offspring would suddenly start buying her slippers and slankets. Ridiculous.

lemsip Thu 30-Sept-21 17:32:37

well ' Rita' (Barbara Knox) is 88 born 1933 and still going strong.....

BlueBelle Thu 30-Sept-21 17:40:43

Gosh I ve never though of Audrey as stylish
But Freda seems to have gone hope I m not too previous here
Kevin’s looking very old and straggly these days

theworriedwell Thu 30-Sept-21 17:41:25

Don't most people need glasses by their 80s? I can't think of anyone I know in their 80s who doesn't wear glasses.

MamaCaz Thu 30-Sept-21 17:47:30

The word on Google is that she is being killed off, and the sinkhole is mentioned!

vegansrock Thu 30-Sept-21 17:50:44

I heard they are killing off someone, I was hoping it would be Gail. Audrey’s eyesight a non story.

LauraNorder Thu 30-Sept-21 18:04:42

How big is that sink hole?
Hopefully it would accommodate Audrey, Gail, Dev, Freda, Aggie and the new Max.
I do love Roy and his young charge. I really enjoy Sally’s comic lines. Love Evelyn. I like Abby too and hope they don’t bring her back as a junky, she’d become such a likeable character.
I’m glad to see that the feisty Yasmine is returning after the Geoff storyline left her weak. She was a real pillar of the community type at the beginning.

love0c Thu 30-Sept-21 18:16:51

As soon as I watched this I knew exactly where it was leading. Insinuating anybody over a certain age will be classed as not fit to drive!

grannyrebel7 Thu 30-Sept-21 18:30:11

I think I've seen Audrey wearing glasses in previous episodes anyway.

Allsorts Thu 30-Sept-21 18:33:05

I do think Audrey is being a Diva at the moment. What with this story and the Freda storyline I feel very disappointed how older women are portrayed. We are not miserable old bats.

LauraNorder Thu 30-Sept-21 18:44:26

Well let’s hope Yasmine does it for us. ? Sisters ?

Visgir1 Thu 30-Sept-21 18:56:33

I was thinking Cataract or other eye problems?
But yes that hip flask?