corrie blamed for neck break!

[crisgal]

there's this guy in manchester, who wouldn't watch corrie for ten years, as he broke his neck the last time he watched it.
(he says he ran upstairs to the loo in the ad break and fell)
Anyway, he watched it again recently and said (obviously!) that he didn't know what was going on.
The article then says that ten years ago, the storyline involved Gary and Judy mallet's adopted baby dying from meningitis!
I have always watched corrie and cannot, for the life of me, remember this happening!
Does anyone?

[Ethel]

Yes! Before they had the twins Gary and Judy tried to adopt the baby of a runaway teenager - baby Shannon - but the baby died of meningits

[happyjo]

I remember this too..
Didn't Vera blame herself for her death as she had a car crash a few days before and judy and the baby was in the car with her... or am I getting confused with judy dying!!??

Now I am confused

[Ethel]

Shannon's mother was Zoe, played by Joanne Froggatt

[Ethel]

That was much later - after Judy had the twins. Vera did blame herself for Judy's death though.

Judy and Gary renamed Shannon to Katie - they tried to 'buy' her. Judy met Zoe when Judy was working in the amusement arcade.

[happyjo]

Cheers Ethel... aka the fountain of all knowledge!! :-)

[crisgal]

i remember zoe - didn't she go out with ashley?
I can picture judy saying "our katie" but have no recollection of the baby dying! How funny.
I remember the twins, she called them rebecca and william, and gary kept saying becky and billy!

They were a great couple - and judy's mum was brill too.
thanks allx

[Postdog]

I wonder if I'll make the news - I've been unable to watch Eastenders for fifteen years because the last time I did I nearly died of boredom.

[Tizzi247]

And didn't Zoe have a son called Jamie who used to help Jack look after his pigeons. I believe he is now in Emmerdale playing one of the Dingles (Eli)

[chessington]

hiya
No Zoe was a teenage Mum and only had the one baby called Shannon, it was someone else quite a bit older that had Jamie who helped Jack with his Pigeons, I can't remember her name but she used to be a barmaid in the Rovers and I think Rita used to foster her way back or something and she came back to the street.

[shylock73]

I`ve heard of people `Breaking their neck for a pee`, but come on, no need to be serious and actually do it.

[Ethel]

That was Jamie Armstrong, Trisha Armstrong's son.
Tricia hooked up with Terry Duckworth and they had a son, Brad.