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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Actress Betty Driver, who plays barmaid Betty Turpin in Granada TV's long running serial Coronation Street, about to board a helicopter to be airlifted from her remote farmhouse at Cobden Edge, Stockport, to the studio.

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