I just watched the Hayley Tammadon and Dan clip from Dancing on Ice, which was brilliant, but I’m increasingly becoming saddened by Hayley Cropper’s very sad and cruel imminent death.
Julie Hesmondhalgh is playing the part brilliantly and is actually looking increasingly very frail as each episode is aired and is indeed a true portrayal of somebody in this condition.
I’ve cried on several occasions during Roy and Hayley’s private moments together. 
Mollie, that’s why it is so watchable, because of their terrific acting. They underplay it, not like some actors/characters, who overdo it!
Indeed and the contrast between their so excellent acting and some of the other members of the cast is becoming increasingly obvious !
When I watch some of the actors, and actresses, I sometimes think, do you, would you, talk and behave like that in real life? Some of them need to tone it down.
I’m not sure I like this storyline with Hayley and Roy - I can’t help wondering about people who have recently received the same kind of diagnosis, how must they feel. Will it make them think there is no hope and just give up? Will they worry when they see Hayley and think ‘that’s how I’ll end up’?
I find it all thoroughly depressing and have started to tune out now when those scenes come on (mind you, I do that when I see Leanne and Nick, Kylie and David, Liz and anyone else).
It is most probably a controversial storyline, but I’m sure Corrie crew have researched it all sensitively.
I’m getting thoroughly bored with the Leanne and Nick storyline.
Too right Stella, same here. I’ve been fed up with them for a while now.
BV The same thoughts have passed through my mind about Hayley’s decline, mainly because of Mum’s cancer.
I know people can’t not talk about it, but the detail they are going into looms very ominous to me. Hayley’s ill looking make-up particularly strikes a chord because Mums colouring and skin and changed so much too.
I, too, have started to not watch some bits as Hayley worsens. I will deal with things as they come along, but I don’t want to watch on telly as well.
I just wish they would bring Norris and Mary (annoying as she may be) back - at least there was a little humour in their lives. Everything is so depressing with all the story lines at the moment - nothing at all to have a laugh about. Like others - I skip over the Hayley decline.
I’m in two minds about this. I think it IS very hard for those who have similar situations in life, but I also think it is portraying something which is often rather a taboo to talk about, and I think it is portraying it very sensitively. But it probably makes a difference that I have seen many people in this position. If I hadn’t, and I were in your situation, Mups, I guess I too might switch it off.
Lots of hugs to you, Mups.
That’s what I mean - it doesn’t matter how sensitive they handle it (sorry Jazzi, not a dig at you) it will be upsetting for people who are going through it. I remember walking into my husband’s hospital room and when he looked like Hayley, even though I’d been warned, I couldn’t help a split-second facial reaction and I know he saw it :-(:-(
If it was an awareness programme fair enough but they’re doing it to gain ratings and that’s why I’m uncomfortable about the detail they are going into.
I couldn’t agree more zinnia. I watch telly to be entertained and, hopefully, amused - I am quite capable of depressing myself, I don’t need them to do it for me!
I already missed a few programmes and it didn’t bother me - and I’m a Corrie addict :shock:
The thing is, we watch the soaps, especially Corrie, for the many realities of life, whether we like them or not. Whether it be drug addiction, alcoholism, brutality, murder, or a sad decline by one of the worst illnesses known to mankind.
Obviously, it’s not all real life as most people know, but some of it is aimed in that direction.
This is not shown for entertainment, but to bring true reality to sufferers, which happens in real life and I for one will not shy away from a realistic situation because my darling friend died from the same illness that Hayley is suffering, and that was incredibly difficult to see her go through that.
People can put blinkers on and pretend it’s not happening, but it is.
The point is, Corrie brings in really true situations that ordinary folk have to go through and deal with, and turning a blind eye won’t make it go away. The acting here is extremely emotional and very sad indeed, for all involved, not just the victim of the illness, but for those who love her as well.
I agree with you Mollie, and at one point I did think the people on Corrie were too healthy, no one ever seemed to have anything wrong - which is not true to life. In Corrie land you were more inclined to be murdered than have an illness!!
I can’t speak for others Mollie, but I personally am not “turning a blind eye” at all, it’s when I’ve had it all day I don’t want a double dose in the evening when I’m trying to put the worry aside for a while.
In all fairness though, maybe I’d feel differently if it wasn’t for my current situation - who knows.
Re Steve’s dilemma, at least Andrea is standing up for him! It usually makes me so cross that when a woman demands her man has the snip, no-one ever suggests the woman has a permanent procedure to avoid unwanted pregnancies!!! Why is it always the man?!
And Beverley Callard really cannot act!
Corrie is the modern day “minstrel in the gallery”, maybe.
Ey? Excuse my ignorance but aint got a clue what you mean SF (surprise surprise 
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Mups, I’m so sorry. It is very difficult for anyone who is in that situation and I truly do understand it.
As to Michelle. How dare she demand such an invasive operation of Steve. They aren’t married and, if indeed they did split up and he wanted more kids, she’s absolutely no right whatsoever to demand that of him.
Perhaps if she doesn’t want any more kids then maybe it is she who should consider the idea of being sterilised, but she’s no business asking that of him.
Alternatively, they should have safe sex?
Me neither! Far too cryptic for me.
