Coronation Street’s Simon Barlow gets drunk
Corrie’s Simon Barlow hits the bottle later this month – but it is Leanne Tilsley who will end up with the headache.
When Zeedan questions Leanne about the bruise on her leg, she lies and tells him that she walked into the dishwasher door.
Leanne hopes to get on Simon’s good side by letting him invite a group of friends over to her restaurant for lunch.
As he and his friends become increasingly drunk, Leanne is horrified to discover the empty bottle under the table. Leanne’s pleased when Simon appears to be enjoying himself but doesn’t notice when Simon steals a bottle of vodka from behind the bar.
(Picture: ITV)However, the row is set to lead to another tense showdown between the pair, with Simon set to lash out once again.
What happens when Leanne gets a drunken Simon back home?
None of that trouble could have prepared her for her most recent hurdle though, as adopted son Simon spins wildly out of control and starts taking his anger out on his mum in the most violent of ways.
“Leanne is too mad to listen to Simon as he tries to make excuses and blame other people”. Leanne obviously really wants to help him, but it’s a vicious circle. “She doesn’t want to be defeated though”. “Her and Simon have always been a little team and she’s determined enough to want to deal with it on her own”.
Desperate to get him off her, Leanne pushes him away, causing Simon to stumble and cut his arm. When Tracy then catches a customer flirting with Robert she storms out again, but Ken advises her to grab love when she can.
Later, when Ken invites them both round to the house to ask them what’s been going on, will they keep the details of Simon’s rages a secret? Knowing she has to help her daughter, Andrea rings Jess back and tells her she’ll have her money in a couple of hours…but where does she plan on finding the cash? Leanne doesn’t have a support network to lean on, so eventually she will probably have to consider some form of help.
Has this been a hard storyline to work on? “Alex has done so well and I’m so proud of him”.
There’s a double-bill of episodes of Coronation Street on Monday 10th August, and in the first, Simon’s grumpy argumentative with Leanne…