Gloria Hunniford interviews Pat Phoenix about her long running role in Coronation Street. Phoenix would leave the street less than two years later in 1984
Pat came to open Woolco in my town centre and she was pushing a trolley. She said hello to me as we passed each other. My late mother was a regular viewer of Coronation Street and never missed an episode. I told her I had met " Elsie Tanner " in Woolco because she opened it. I told her that she was lovely.
Saying about bloopers, there was one from the ‘70s where the camera followed Elsie through to the other bar after talking to Betty, and whacked her on the back of the head! I think Helen Worth said when Pat knew she was going to dry up during a scene, she’d bang her hand on the table, that would be the cue for her to come in with something. She was an agony aunt on tvam for a little while and starred in a flop sitcom Constant Hot Water.
Well,sadly,she'd only have had less than 3 years left on the show,had she stayed (she also requested a fixed more time off after her return from 3 years away from the show in the mid 70s)🎩
Elsie left for Portugal with her lover old flame Bill Gregory to open up a bar it was only revealed a couple of year's ago ( by Dennis Tanner ) that both Elsie and Bill were killed in a car accident in Portugal!!
Lovely to see her and hear her voice again.
Pat came to open Woolco in my town centre and she was pushing a trolley. She said hello to me as we passed each other. My late mother was a regular viewer of Coronation Street and never missed an episode. I told her I had met " Elsie Tanner " in Woolco because she opened it. I told her that she was lovely.
Middlesbrough bus station, as it is now, was officially opened by her - unfortunately, I wasn’t there to meet her!
A pioneering icon of British TV. RIP Ms Pat Phoenix. We will never forget you.
What an absolutely lovely and beautiful lady, So open and honest, R.I.P Pat ,
She was VILE , a really nasty bastard . She used to come into my family’s dress shop and they hated her
Brilliant! Lovely to see :)
One in a million
Thank fuck
22 years ago!!! ..bet they never dreamed it would still be going 42 years after even that !!! lol
That's when coronation steet was full of great character actors unlike now Pat Phoenix RIP
She only had 4 years left 😢🎩
At the time she didn't know, she was going to contract lung cancer from her heavy smoking habit
Lung cancer may have already been forming? Who knows?
Saying about bloopers, there was one from the ‘70s where the camera followed Elsie through to the other bar after talking to Betty, and whacked her on the back of the head! I think Helen Worth said when Pat knew she was going to dry up during a scene, she’d bang her hand on the table, that would be the cue for her to come in with something. She was an agony aunt on tvam for a little while and starred in a flop sitcom Constant Hot Water.
Love Pat 👍🏴
Always struck me as a really nice woman
She was a very good looking lady !
'Elsie' left in early 1984 - moved to Portugal. Very abrupt and odd for a major character...and never to be heard of again!
Well,sadly,she'd only have had less than 3 years left on the show,had she stayed (she also requested a fixed more time off after her return from 3 years away from the show in the mid 70s)🎩
Elsie left for Portugal with her lover old flame Bill Gregory to open up a bar it was only revealed a couple of year's ago ( by Dennis Tanner ) that both Elsie and Bill were killed in a car accident in Portugal!!
Glamorous lady
What happened to pats possession s