Coronation Street fans have pointed out a huge weather blunder by the soap after the UK was hit with a heatwave last week. In the episode which aired on Monday, 11 September, viewers watched as Evelyn Plummer wrapped herself in several blankets and wore two cardigans and fluffy socks as her boiler had broken and her flat was freezing.
While in the real world, people in the United Kingdom struggled as temperatures hit 30C and above in parts of the country in recent days.The scenes got viewers at home talking, and one person wrote on Twitter: "Evelyn on Corrie saying the boiler is on the blink, the flat is freezing, and she sits in two cardies and socks ....
while the rest of us in the UK have had the windows open, fans on and still sweltering! "Does she live in a fridge?" While another laughed: "If ever anyone tells you perfect timing doesn't exist, just show them this episode of #Corrie, where they're having a cold snap that's perfectly coincided with a real-life heat wave." Someone else questioned: "Boiler?
In this weather? #Corrie." It has been a big few weeks for Evelyn after her daughter, Cassie, returned to the cobbles and told her son, Tyrone Dobbs, that she is his mum.Tyrone thought his birth mum was dead, as that is what his nan, Evelyn, told him many years ago.
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