There's a ridiculous story today in The Mirror pointing out a list of things that the tabloid (wrongly) says are leaving "fans baffled" about Coronation Street. I won't bore you with the list of things they've mentioned as none of them are worth blogging - apart from one.
They say that it's a miracle that Billy is able to haul himself up and down the stairs at his flat even though he can barely walk as he struggles with his painkiller addiction and going cold turkey.
It's no miracle. It's not even a secret. There's a stair lift in the flat. Owen Armstrong installed it when Izzy lived in the flat and needed the lift to get herself up and down the stairs. This happened in Deceember 2014. I know this because I mentioned it in the Corrie weekly update for that month, as follows:
Now that Anna and Owen have moved into Carla's old flat I've been beside myself with worry as to how Izzy will make it up all those stairs, especially when she said she was going to be spending Christmas with her family. Anyway, problem's solved when Owen says he is going to be fitting a stair lift. Phew, I can breathe a sigh of relief now.
So there you have it.
Actor Daniel Brocklebank, who plays Billy Mayhew in Coronation Street, pointed this out on Twitter too - rather forcefully, it has to be said. But I suspect he was fed up to the back teeth of people asking him how Billy got up and down the stairs too.
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