From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Curly Watts
Curly Watts
Curly Watts ley and Eddie Yeats, whilst lodging with Emily Bishop,
Jack Duckworth and Vera Duckworth. He later worked
for Mike Baldwin alongside Terry Duckworth. Curly’s
first serious romance was with Shirley Armitage, a black
sewing-machinist from Baldwin’s factory. Opposition
from his old-fashioned parents Arthur and Eunice led to
tension between the couple, and Shirley left when Curly
threw out the guests at his surprise party so he could re-
vise for a course in Business Studies.
This course led to him getting a job at Bettabuy’s su-
permarket, and he became a protege of Reg Holdsworth.
Whilst working there, he had a relationship with employ-
ee Kimberley Taylor. Once again, opposition—this time
from both sets of parents—caused problems. Despite oth-
er brief flings with girls such as Anne Malone and Angie
Curly in 1991 Freeman and Reg’s future wife Maureen Holdsworth,
Coronation Street character who tried to get him sacked when he rejected her ad-
vances, and Maxine Peacock, who slept with him believ-
Portrayed by Kevin Kennedy ing that he was going abroad next day, Curly seemed
Introduced by Mervyn Watson doomed never to find domestic happiness.
After a prolonged on-off relationship, Curly married
Duration 1983–2003
Raquel Wolstenhulme, who eventually left him to work
First appearance 11 July 1983 as a beautician in Kuala Lumpur, and later moved to
France with their daughter, Alice Diana. Curly did not
Last appearance 1 September 2003
know about the child until Raquel turned up unexpected-
Classification Former; regular ly one New Year’s Eve to ask for a divorce.
Book appearances Coronation Street:
Curly met his second wife, policewoman Emma Tay-
The Complete Saga lor (Angela Lonsdale) when she came to investigate a se-
ries of crimes in the area in which Curly was innocently
Spin-off appearances Coronation Street:
implicated. The couple married and had a son who was
Knights Tale (2010)
born on Boxing Day 2001 whom they named Ben, after
Profile Norris Cole’s middle name, as he helped deliver the child.
Date of birth 4 July 1964
Later, Emma committed perjury in order to protect a col-
league, causing friction between herself and the ultra-
Home Newcastle upon Tyne honest Curly. The couple left the Street during 2003 to
Occupation Supermarket assistant start a new life near Newcastle upon Tyne, in the small
town of Ryton. When the character made a comeback
for the 2010 spin-off DVD movie Coronation Street - A
Norman "Curly" Watts was a prominent fictional char- Knight’s Tale, Curly revealed that his marriage to Emma
acter in the long-running British soap opera Coronation has ended since their departure from Weatherfield.
Street from 1983 to 2003. He was portrayed throughout by In August 2007 and again in April 2009, it was re-
the actor Kevin Kennedy. vealed that Kevin Kennedy has expressed interest in
His nickname resulted from him having straight, lank making a come back to Coronation Street[1][2]
hair. His hobby was astronomy, and he installed a tele-
scope in the loft of his house.
Other appearances
Storylines Kevin Kennedy appeared in character as Curly on Univer-
sity Challenge Challenges Coronation Street, a special edition
The character was originally a paperboy for Rita Fair-
clough, before working as a binman with Chalky White-
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Curly Watts
of University Challenge produced for the 1997 Comic Relief [2] http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/a152661/
telethon. kennedy-id-like-to-return-to-corrie.html
Curly Watts made a return in Coronation Street DVD
Special in 2010 titled Knight’s Tale, which saw the return
of another Corrie character Reg Holdsworth.
External links
• Corrie.net profile
• Article on Curly leaving Coronation Street
References
[1] http://entertainment.aol.co.uk/curly-considering-
return-to-corrie/article/20070729021709990002
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