HE was Coronation Street’s hopelessly unlucky-in-love supermarket manager with a passion for astronomy. But according to the man who brought him to life, numpty Norman “Curly” Watts’s car-crash romantic history was doing most blokes a favour.
Actor Kevin Kennedy says: “My job playing Curly in the Eighties and Nineties was to make the male population feel better about themselves. “They could say, ‘OK, this has happened to me, that’s happened, but at least I’m not him’.” It is Corrie Week in The Sun as the show prepares to celebrate its 60th birthday next month and, of all its characters down the years, Curly is surely one of the most loved.
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