Betty's trademark hotpots have been famous in Coronation Street for years. They've provided many a hungry local with sustenance and are of course the perfect complement to a pint of Newton and Ridley's. But now it seems the hotpot is the centre of a massive scandal.
In a dramatic storyline airing February, Steve McDonald throws a 90th birthday party for Betty and tells the Weatherfield Gazette the do is to celebrate the fact that she is the oldest barmaid in Weatherfield. But when 91 year old barmaid Enid Crump turns up at The Rovers spitting feathers Steve tries to pacify her with a glass of sherry and a dodgy old hotpot pulled from the back of the freezer.
When Enid is rushed to hospital with suspected food poisoning, Betty worries that she might go to prison. "It's murder. I'll have killed her. I'm too old to go to prison," Betty tells Steve. "I'll never come out alive." Steve, however, it seems is less sympathetic: "Look on the bright side, if Enid dies, you can then officially call yourself the undisputed Oldest Barmaid in Town." Classic Corrie stuff. Can't wait.
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Glad they have remembered Bettys 90th! This sounds like classic stuff. Betty is a true classic and steals the show every time she appears on screen. Her scene in the salon the other day was brilliant!