{"id":211451,"date":"2025-10-19T17:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/211451\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T17:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:46:10","slug":"coronation-street-legend-thelma-barlow-remembers-most-difficult-time-on-soap-28-years-after-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/211451\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Street legend Thelma Barlow remembers \u2018most difficult time\u2019 on soap 28 years after exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soap icon Thelma Barlow has remembered one of her most challenging storylines during her time on Coronation Street<\/p>\n

11:11, 19 Oct 2025Updated 11:32, 19 Oct 2025<\/p>\n

Coronation Street star Thelma Barlow has admitted her love triangle storyline as Mavis Wilton was one of her most challenging times on the long-running soap.<\/p>\n

The actress, 96, portrayed Mavis between 1971\u20131997 on the ITV<\/a> series for an incredible total of 1,207 episodes.<\/p>\n

Barlow made an appearance on Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh today (Sunday, 19th October), reminiscing on some of her most iconic moments from her soap tenure.<\/p>\n

Presenter Titchmarsh set the scene: \u201cThen came the romantic involvements.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to mention two names here. I\u2019m going to mention Derek and I\u2019m going to mention Victor Pendlebury.\u201d<\/p>\n

The names brought out a strong reaction in Barlow, who exclaimed: \u201cOh! That was a difficult time for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AlanAlan Titchmarsh chats to Corrie icon Thelma Barlow(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

Throughout Mavis\u2019 time on the series, she was primarily romantically involved with Derek (played by Peter Baldwin), eventually marrying in 1988.<\/p>\n

However, their relationship was challenged with frequent appearances by Victor (Christopher Coll), who was obsessed with her and formulated schemes to split Mavis and Derek up.<\/p>\n

On one occasion, Victor gives Mavis a foot rub, which she enjoys until they\u2019re interrupted by a furious Derek.<\/p>\n

\"ThelmaDerek walks in on a steamy moment between Mavis and Victor(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

After playing the scene in question for Love Your Weekend viewers, Titchmarsh joked: \u201cCaught red-handed by Derek!<\/p>\n

\u201cPeter Baldwin was a great double act, there was a great rapport between [you two].\u201d<\/p>\n

Thankfully, despite the challenging storylines, Barlow was already well-acquainted with her long-time co-star.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had worked together in the theatre,\u201d she recalled. \u201cAnd that was lovely.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he was coming in, I knew I\u2019d got a new man. Mavis had a lot of men in her life!<\/p>\n

\"ThelmaBarlow admits Mavis’ love triangle was a “difficult time”(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the director said, \u2018Come and meet your new lad. He\u2019s someone you used to live with\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barlow gasped and added: \u201cThat takes the mind back! And it was Peter, we\u2019d all shared a house together in Exmouth, my first job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Titchmarsh also reminded Barlow she also used to live with Gail Platt legend Helen Worth, whom Barlow reveals she still sees on occasion.<\/p>\n

Love Your Weekend airs Sundays from 10am on ITV1 and ITVX.<\/p>\n

Coronation Street airs Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8pm on ITV1 and ITVX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soap icon Thelma Barlow has remembered one of her most challenging storylines during her time on Coronation Street…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[32072,2525,96,347,2534,91015,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-211451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-alan-titchmarsh","tag-coronation-street","tag-entertainment","tag-itv","tag-soap-operas","tag-thelma-barlow","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}