Coronation Street fans immediately welcomed a new character with open arms as she swept onto the famous cobbles in Friday night's episode (August 5). When undertaker George Shuttleworth arrived for Mr Pugh’s funeral and revealed that he had taken girlfriend Eileen Grimshaw’s strong painkillers to ease his toothache, it was clear that he was as high as a kite.
His colleague Todd shoved George into one of the funeral cars as widow Mrs Pugh gave him the awkward third degree. But it was at that moment George’s sister Glenda arrived out of the blue and saved the day.
Clocking George asleep in the back of the funeral car, she quickly took charge of the proceedings. Later as Glenda, Todd and Sean Tully celebrated how well the funeral went following the wake in the Rovers Return, George sheepishly appeared.
