Has 'our Ken' Gone A Little Too Far This Time?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/9939558/Sex-abuse-victims-bring-it-upon-themselves-Bill-Roache-claims.html

[emmie]

perhaps all those women keeping him young looking... personally i think he's off his trolley but that's another matter.

[ludwig]

Amazingly he's going out with the weather girl Emma Jesson...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ken-barlow-is-all-mine-now-girlfriend-797074

Maybe she did something wrong in a former life.

[sandyRoe]

That's a remarkable syrup he wears. I wonder how much one like that would cost?

[emmie]

i thought that relationship was off, and he doesn't wear a syrup?

[Sharingan]

I thought that too Sandy Roe, my Mother reckons it's his own hair though. Are you a Samuel Beckett fan then?

[emmie]

i can spot them a million miles off and that looks pretty real

[sandyRoe]

I like some of his black humour but wouldn't go so far as to call myself a fan.

[sandyRoe]

Life's not fair. I'm as bald as a coot and that eejit has a head of hair like that. :-(

[emmie]

and he has a job for life, unlike most ordinary folk..

[sandyRoe]

He must have been almost saintly in his last incarnation to reap so many rewards in this one.

[Sharingan]

I dunno I think that's most actor's idea of hell being in Coronation Street

[emmie]

it would be my idea of hell, but then it's a paid job, he is not the sharpest tool in the box though is he?

[emmie]

i have noticed that many well known actors seem to hanker to get on the show, some notables in recent days Sir Ian McKellen, Timothy West, to name just two.

[sp1814]

em10

...and Peter Kaye...who was magnificent in his cameo appearance (IMO).

[emmie]

there have been lots of guest artists in recent years, i have gone off the programme, not that i was a big fan, i don't like most of the actors, some couldn't act if their life depended on it, like dev...