[Acrylic-bob]

Exactly. And Hilda Ogden, a figure of fun and ridicule and yet there was not a dry eye in the country when she lost Stan. True pathos brought out of bathos. And weren't we shocked to watch Ena Sharples and Elsie Tanner scrapping in the street?

It strikes me that the current crop of soap celebrities, especially the younger ones, are very good at only one thing - playing themselves.