RIP Betty Driver: Coronation Street Betty’s Hotpot Off The Menu

BETTY Driver the 91-year-old actress who played Betty Williams/Turpin as Coronation’s Street’s barmaid and Lancashire hotpot maker in the Rover’s Return is dead.

The former music hall star was recruited for the role in 1969 and 42 years later was still on the cast list.

Despite her famed success as a soap series meat dish master chef, she was a vegetarian and said she couldn’t cook a hotpot to “save my life”!

ITV’s scriptwriters will have to look elsewhere to blame story-line heart attacks.

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File photo dated 23/7/1955 of Betty Driver holding her pet poodles Mitzi (left) and Tina, at her home in Hendon, London.The actress who played barmaid Betty Turpin in the ITV soap for 42 years has died today aged 91, said a spokeswoman for the programme.

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Posted: 15th, October 2011 | In: TV & Radio Comment | TrackBack | Permalink