Coronation Street viewers beg for ‘iconic’ resident to take over Rovers from Jenny

Coronation Street: Adam exposes lying pregnant wife Sarah at gender reveal party Coronation Street fans were left begging for Glenda Shuttleworth (played by Jodie Prenger), to take over the Rovers Return after Jenny Connor’s (Sally-Ann Matthews) last resort to save it failed. Jenny admitted to Daisy Midgeley (Charlotte Jordan), Glenda and Sean Tully (Anthony Cotton) that the pub was in trouble, she realised she needed to pull a drastic measure. She decided it was time to see if a brewery would buy into The Rovers to keep it afloat calling in the help of Phillip Newton (Malcolm Scates) and his son Henry Newton (George Banks). The pair headed to The Rovers tonight to assess the atmosphere, how many punters it was pulling in and how well their accounts looked to see if they would buy into it. Their plan was to have Glenda sing for the night, but after practising through the night, she ended up losing her voice and called in a favour of an old friend. READ MORE Win a pair of tickets to The Coronation Street Experience Coronation Street viewers beg for ‘iconic’ resident to take over Rovers from Jenny However, their plan went downhill after Glenda was heard complaining about Phillip hitting on her and saying some personal things about his appearance. After the entertainment died down the residents of Weatherfield began to leave which left Jenny panicking about giving Henry the wrong impression. He pulled Jenny aside to speak to her about whether their deal would work and unfortunately told her that because of how bad her accounts were, they were unable to buy into The Rovers. She revealed the news to Daisy, Sean and Gemma Winter (Dolly-Rose Campbell) and was left confused as to what to do. Coronation Street viewers beg for ‘iconic’ resident to take over Rovers from Jenny SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Henry gave her a company card so she could sell The Rovers and it be turned into flats, and as she locked up apologised to Betty Williams (Betty Driver) for not keeping the place afloat. Viewers of the ITV soap were left devastated that Jenny has been forced to consider selling The Rovers but thought Glenda would be the perfect solution to keep it open. Taking to their Twitter accounts, user @jonnymgdraws begged: “Just give her the Rovers already! #corrie #coronationstreet,” alongside an image of Glenda. James Manda commented: “Just give the pub to Glenda already ffs #corrie #coronationstreet.”(sic) Trending