Coronation Street favourite's unexpected romance after devastating betrayal

Daily Mirror

4 days ago

Coronation Street's Jenny Connor (Sally Ann Matthews) has been unlucky in love during her time in Weatherfield but could be about to embark on a surprise new romance
A Coronation Street favourite has recently had their heart broken thanks to her scheming family, but romance could be about to be on the cards all over again.
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Jenny Connor (Sally Ann Matthews) was recently conned out of £60,000 by her stepdaughter Daisy Midgely ( Charlotte Jordan) and had discovered that the whole plot linked back to Daisy's mother Christina Boyd ( Amy Robbins) and her accomplice Dom Norwood (Dominic Rickhards).
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But prior to the dramatic revelations, Jenny was under the impression that she and Leo were the real deal, having met on a dating app in the weeks before all the truths unravelled during a quiz night at the Rovers Return.
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Since Daisy managed to get her hands on the money and flee to Bali, Jenny has been left heartbroken and on her own. She has had to give up her job as Rovers landlady and now works at The Kabin. But spoilers have revealed that her next romance will come from within the pub itself.
Spoilers have revealed that in scenes yet to air, barmaid Glenda Shuttleworth (Jodie Prenger) will persuade her brother George (Tony Maudsley) to download a dating app as he attempts to move on from Eileen Grimshaw (Sue Cleaver) following her move to Thailand.
But Jenny then comes into he pub and she tells the undertaker that there is a burst pipe at the newsagents, so he rushes to fix it. As a thank you, Jenny cooks dinner for George but later has to hide her disappointment as Glenda tells her that George has already had some interest on the dating app. Some viewers may think that Jenny is already unlucky-in-love given her Weatherfield dating history.
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The character was first introduced in the 1980s under the name of Jenny Bradley when she became a foster daughter for Rita Tanner (Barbara Knox) and was heavily involved in the storyline that saw her father Alan Bradley (Mark Eden) abuse the backstreet newsagent, ultimately ending in his demise when he was ran over by a Blackpool tram.
Following this, she had an ill-fated affair with married man Robert Weston (Philip Bretherton), and she left the street after they split in 1991.
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After an absence of more than 20 years, Jenny made a comeback to Weatherfield in 2015 where she struck up a relationship with Kevin Webster (Michael Le Vell), and she became obsessed with the idea of becoming a mother to Kevin's young son Jack.
It was later revealed that during her time away from the Street, Jenny had had a child called Tom with her now-ex husband but he had drowned in a paddling pool as a toddler.
At the time, Kevin's daughter Sophie's ( Brooke Vincent) girlfriend Maddie Heath ( Amy James-Kelly) and was the one who had discovered the truth, but she died in an explosion before she could tell anyone. Jenny later decided to kidnap Jack and try to replace her own son with him, but was eventually sectioned.
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When she made another comeback return to the Street, Jenny caught the attention of businessman Johnny Connor (Richard Hawley) and the pair married in 2017 before going on to run the Rovers together.
Their union survived Johnny's brief affair with Liz McDonald (Beverley Callard) and the prison sentence that Johnny received over a historic robbery, but ultimately came to an end in 2021 when the Platt's sinkhole caused mass destruction on the Street.
Having climbed in to save his wife, Jonny quickly began to suffer from hypothermia and then drowned. Jenny also had a relationship wit Leo Thompkins (Joe Frost) and they were due to elope, but he was killed by Stephen Reid (Todd Boyce), whom she had also had a brief dalliance with.
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In real life, Sally Ann, who has also starred in Emmerdale, Doctors, and Waterloo Road over the years but has also enjoyed an illustrious career in theatre, married senior barrister Nicholas Rhodes in 1999 in a secret ceremony after the birth of her son James and they have been together ever since.
"I never wanted to get married, ever," she told former Loose Women anchor Kate Thornton on White Wine Question Time. Sally Ann surprised her family and friends with news of the couple's secret wedding on the same day as her birthday and her son's christening.
"I wanted to be with somebody and for me, the decision to have a child was a much bigger commitment. So we decided that we would start a family and we did. Then as soon as James was born, I kind of went: 'Oh I want the same name as everybody else'.
"So all right, 'I'll marry you now but I don't want a fuss and you're rubbish at remembering dates. So we'll get married on my birthday at James's christening'. So that's what we did. Every year on my birthday I forget it's also my wedding anniversary!