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 15/12/1985 of members of the cast of ITV's soap opera Coronation Street, crowded around a cake replica of the street at the celebration to mark its 25th anniversary at the Dorchester Hotel. Front row, left to right, Julie Goodyear, Eileen Derbyshire, Thelma Barlow, William Roache, Jean Alexander and Betty Driver. Back row, left to right, Liz Dawn, Nigel Pivaro, Anne Kirkbride, Bryan Mosley and Bill Tarmey. Driver has died today aged 91, said a spokeswoman for the programme.
Posted: 15th, October 2011 | In: TV & Radio Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
