I don't watch the soap, but past experience tells me that the most unlikely people in soaps pair off.
Look at Corrie, you have Carla there, an angel in human form if ever there was one, who in real life, would be studying the daily long queue of men at her door desperate to take her out, whereas in the soap, she ends up with Peter Barlow, a character with the charisma and social appeal of a paper clip.
Similarly, Michelle Conor has spent enough time luminating the Rovers for at least several hundred eligible men to have heard about her, and turned up to have a chat, but no, not one comes through the doors, and, as all characters in soaps do, she ends up with one or more of the people who live within a hundred yard radius.
I know it's how soaps work, my point is that the demographic of characters means that anyone looking for a member of the opposite, or indeed same sex to pair up with, is going to find someone they see every day - 'twas always thus.