CHARLIE CONDOU - No.932

GADABOUT

Nici_: OH MY GOD CANT BELIEVE IM SAT ON THE TABLE NEXT TO MARCUS FROM CORONATION STREET!!!

Nici_: @Charliecondou just saw you in Jamie Oliver! Xxx

Charliecondou: @Nici_ I get about x

FESTIVE FUNDRAISER

TroikaTalent: Do join @Wendy_Wason and friends for a festive fundraiser in aid of the tragedy at Clutha in Glasgow. Tues 17th, 10pm http://bit.ly/IES6aT 

Charliecondou: RT @TroikaTalent: Do join @Wendy_Wason and friends for a festive fundraiser in aid of the tragedy at Clutha in Glasgow. Tues 17th, 10pm http://bit.ly/IES6aT

IT'S TERRY TIME

terryronald: @Charliecondou it was very nice to meet you this morning.

Charliecondou: @terryronald you too dear x

DUFFLE COAT

mamasandpapas: A timeless coat that will always look great on your little boy, our navy duffle coat will smarten any outfit! http://www.mamasandpapas.com/product-boys-navy-duffle-coat/s0011216/type-s/

Charliecondou: @mamasandpapas do you make them for 2 year olds? I love it!

mamasandpapas: @Charliecondou Hi Charlie, is this the duffle coat? If so yes, our smallest size will fit a 2-3 year old :) Thank you

I'M HOPIN' I WIN

IMKellyHoppen: Don't forget to follow me at @kellyhoppenhome for a chance to win an item between 12-3pm from my new home collection http://www.kellyhoppen.com 

Charliecondou: RT @IMKellyHoppen: Don't forget to follow me at @kellyhoppenhome for a chance to win an item between 12-3pm from my new home collection http://www.kellyhoppen.com 

STRAIGHT MEN KISS

Charliecondou: I love this! British GQ should do the same http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/straight-male-celebs-kiss-fight-gay-hate-russia111213

msloobylou: @Charliecondou Phwaor yes! I mean, very important political statement there.

Freudenschade: @Charliecondou  *speed dials Ben Cohen*

Tom_in_Oz_: @Charliecondou my son is 32 he still gets a hug and kiss from me ... Not enough dads teach their sons to be in touch with their humanity.

WEATHERFIELD

msm4rsh: Weatherfield already!!! Too early!

Charliecondou: @msm4rsh get the kettle on! X

CENTRE OF ATTENTION

OC: Your Celebs in Shabby places....

Charliecondou: @OC I saw myself in a shop called "Luvyababes" in the Arndale centre yesterday

mistermarkjones: @Charliecondou @OC Ha ha! Well played, fella!

SNEAK PEEK AT 

FRIDAY 13TH CORRIE

Here's Maria, Marcus and Todd at the Rovers. Little does Maria know what a viper Todd will turn out to be. Todd is already causing havoc for others - he's just knocked Sean for six by rejecting his advances. This Friday Todd reveals to his aunty Julie that her hubby Brian is accepting a teaching job in Wales which will ruin her plans to foster children. Todd is such a scheming manipulator. 

I know some of the writers on Corrie are gay, so it astounds me that they make 2 out of 3 lead gay characters so one-dimensional. Are all gay men self-centred, nasty and vain like Todd and Sean? It seems incongruous that a nice boy like Marcus would be attracted to Todd - it will be an acting masterpiece for Charlie Condou to make it seem believable when the projected pairing of Todd and Marcus unfolds!

I think it's time the Corrie writers watched Aussie TV serial "House Husbands" which has some of the best representations of gay men running households parallel to their heterosexual counterparts - without falling into any clichéd drivel. In my opinion, it's time to get with the program, Corrie writers!

LAST NIGHT'S CORRIE

Brian tries to corner Marcus at Roy's Rolls so he can go on about his problems with Julie. Marcus has had enough of his prattle.

Marcus tells him, "Not now Brian, I've had the day from hell!" Todd eavesdrops on the conversation as Brian departs.

Todd slimes his way into sitting with Marcus.

Todd does his best to discover what's beeen going on with Brian.

Marcus tells him a little of the story and asks Todd not to share his news with anyone.

 Todd leans over and suggests now they are at Roy's Rolls maybe Marcus might like one....a. roll that is!

Stunned look from Marcus!

-End of Scene- 

*This bit may not be true*

Now press play and forward to the 8 min mark to see the real events unfold.

struthdavison: @Charliecondou is corrie eye candy.

tonypony: #corrie I do believe todd will be emptying marcus's sack at xmas

TOM'S SECRET STASH

Presenting another set of pictures from my secret stash! Here is Rob James-Collier, Alison King and Charlie Condou rehearsing a scene from 2008. It was a child's funeral scene so the cast were in a sombre mood. Both shots remain commercially unissued.

DOOMED, I TELL YA!

Charliecondou: She's totally devastated @realsamia RT @digitalspybrk: Samia Ghadie: 'I knew Maria and Marcus were doomed' http://dspy.me/1bCSBgo

Coronation Street's Samia Ghadie: 'I knew Maria and Marcus were doomed'
By Sophie Dainty

Coronation Street star Samia Ghadie had admitted that she is sad over co-star Charlie Condou's decision to leave the soap. The pair's characters Maria Connor and Marcus Dent are currently in a relationship on screen, but there is set to be trouble ahead as viewers will see Marcus fall for Todd in the New Year. Condou announced his upcoming Coronation Street departure last month, adding that his exit storyline would be exciting. Reflecting on the news, Ghadie said to Inside Soap: "He's lovely, he's so easy to work with - it will be strange not having him around. "Obviously I knew that Maria and Marcus wouldn't stay together, because Maria's love life never runs smoothly and Marcus is gay! "I knew they were doomed, so I knew that me and Charlie wouldn't be working closely forever. But I was really sad to hear that he was going." Ghadie also suggested that her character could reunite with former boyfriend Tyrone Hobbs. She said: "I really enjoyed her being with Tyrone. I think everyone fondly remembers Maria and Tyrone being together, which is nice. "You never know, they might get back together - stranger things have happened."

TittyOShea: @Charliecondou @realsamia @digitalspybrk we ALL knew Maria and Marcus were doomed.

Rollissimo: @Charliecondou @realsamia @digitalspybrk how COULD you, Charlie? How COULD you?

Charliecondou: @Rollissimo @realsamia #totesemosh

Rollissimo: @Charliecondou @realsamia when can I come and visit the set?!?

Charliecondou: @Rollissimo Do you want new set or old set? If old, then you'd better hurry up cos we leave next week

Rollissimo: @Charliecondou oh Flubberducks! I may have to do the new one as I'm stuck in London for a while..

damoncorrie: Me and @JOJEHARVEY on our historic Quay St cobbles for the very last time before we move to our new home #nostalgic

Ghadie wants Maria back with Tyrone

Coronation Street star Samia Ghadie has revealed she wants her character Maria Connor to get back together with her childhood sweetheart Tyrone Dobbs. Maria is headed for more heartbreak in the New Year as gay boyfriend Marcus Dent is set to fall for Todd Grimshaw, with actor Charlie Condou, who plays Marcus, leaving the soap. Samia told Inside Soap: "I really enjoyed her being with Tyrone. I think everyone fondly remembers Maria and Tyrone being together, which is nice. "You never know, they might get back together - stranger things have happened." Maria entered the soap as Tyrone's love interest in 2000, but they called off their engagement two years later when Tyrone fell for Fiz Brown. Tyrone and Fiz have recently found love together again after both experiencing very difficult relationships. Samia also admitted she would miss working with Charlie. She said: "He's lovely, he's so easy to work with - it will be strange not having him around. "Obviously I knew that Maria and Marcus wouldn't stay together, because Maria's love life never runs smoothly and Marcus is gay! "I knew they were doomed, so I knew that me and Charlie wouldn't be working closely forever. But I was really sad to hear that he was going."

HOW DID GQ MAGAZINE GERMANY MAKE IT POSSIBLE?

FROM SOMEWHERE

OVER THE RAINBOW

- WITH TOM IN OZ -

MY FIRST CABINET MEETING

ChasCondouBlog: Guess who's been nice, not naughty? Yes hard to believe I know! Got china display cabinet for Xmas delivered today. #CarltonWare

NigelfWright: @ChasCondouBlog very nice you've got good taste, how are you? ready for xmas yet

ChasCondouBlog: @NigelfWright yes ready, it will be fairly low key for us. We are having time with our kids rather than them coming home. How's ur preps going?

NigelfWright: @ChasCondouBlog slow but sure lol comes down to the ugly word money, still the best pressie this yr is all my kids over for dinner, priceless.

SPECSAVERS

Tom_in_Oz_: Should have gone to Specsavers.....local bloke in Taree NSW hurtled car backwards into eyewear shop!

GENERAL MOTORS TO CLOSE OPERATIONS IN OZ

randlight: so everyone knows who forced GENERAL MOTORS to leave Australia

THAT INAPPROPRIATE MANDELA FUNERAL SELFIE

Barak Obama's speech paid tribute to a "giant of history". His symbolic handshake with Cuba's leader, Raul Castro, has been decades in the waiting. So why did the US President take part in a "funeral selfie" with the Danish Prime Minister? With a distinct lack of the decorum expected at a memorial service to the icon of the South African civil rights struggle, the US President giggled and playfully patted Helle Thorning- Schmidt as she lined up her smartphone camera for the now ubiquitous selfie. The selfie, so beloved of social media website users, unleashed a torrent of abuse on Twitter. 

 It did not appear to go down well with the First Lady either. Michelle Obama glowered from the other side of her husband as he cavorted with the Danish premier, who is married to Stephen Kinnock, son of the former Labour Party leader Lord Kinnock. The First Lady later managed to transplant herself between her husband and Ms Thorning-Schmidt. One image captured the froideur as Mrs Obama turned her shoulder on the blonde premier. Not that Britain's Prime Minister escaped scot-free from Selfie-Gate. David Cameron was also captured leaning in to Ms Thorning- Schmidt's mobile phone snap. One irate Twitter user posted: "I wonder if Neil Kinnock got an ulcer seeing his daughter-in-law do a selfie with David Cameron . . . at a memorial service." The Thorning-Schmidt snap will perhaps be regarded by historians as the point when selfies - loosely defined as a smartphone or webcam self-portrait uploaded to a social media website - overreached themselves. The Oxford University Press has pronounced selfie its word of the year. There is, however, an etiquette to selfies: funeral ones are particularly frowned upon. 

The authors of a blog "Selfies at Funerals", which have documented the tasteless and bizarre self-portraits taken at funerals, decided after the Thorning-Schmidt snap that enough was enough. "Our work here is done. Thank you, world, and good night," its authors said. Mr Obama's selfie is not the only Mandela-related image to elicit ridicule. Mike Sonko, a senator for Nairobi, Kenya's capital, posted on his Facebook page hours after Mandela's death a picture of himself purportedly with the former South African President. Only one problem: it was a badly photoshopped image. The original featured Mandela with Muhammad Ali. Mr Sonko had inserted his image on top of Ali's. At least Obama, Cameron and Thorning-Schmidt have not had the temerity to do that . . . have they?