Deathray 2,940 Posted June 20, 2018 Despite having the Betty Driver Memorial Thread and the Yewtree thread @YoungWillz thought that I should start a thread for the only person who's managed to hold down a job he can't do for knocking on 60 years. Corrie bosses if you're reading this I'm also a shit actor and like Coronation Street, could do with a 60 year career fucking up my lines and giving two emotional expressions only to cover every situation. Just PM me. Claims to have shagged 1,000+ women. Probably why he struggled to remember details when he was intimately grilled about them in the name of Yewtree but got away with it. Best known for fucking up his lines in thousands of episodes of Coronation Street, yet being an egotistical maniac who thinks he'd have been the next Hollywood superstar if he had turned Corrie down. Views himself as the guardian of Ken Barlow and constantly argues with producers over whether Ken would do something. One of the last survivors of the original cast of Coronation Street and cult icon in the United Kingdom. Despite his obvious insanity, purely through longevity he's become important in the national psyche and penetrated far beyond the world of soap, how many fictional marital scraps have the outcome shown on the scoreboard at Old Trafford? Spiritually searching for something with his weird cults that he belongs to, aged massively in the past few years so might be about to cark it you never know. Wants to work until he's 100 unfortunately for those of us who actually watch Corrie, but working that long might induce a stress related heart attack to save us all from his one emotion and bad delivery.... I'm only starting this thread to avoid whoever does when he eventually carks it opening it with some post-humous glowing eulogisation of the ineffective, lucky old cunt in his thread's first post. Always remember he's a shit actor who isn't sacked because he's been their too long to sack. 7 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 6,329 Posted June 20, 2018 I reckon he still has a few years left. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,726 Posted June 20, 2018 20 minutes ago, Deathray said: Claims to have shagged a 1,000 women. Although official figures in 2013 put it closer to 995 women and 5 young girls. (this later got corrected by the courts back up to the original 1,000). 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,940 Posted June 20, 2018 34 minutes ago, Sean said: I reckon he still has a few years left. Reckon he'll be working into his late 90s, unfortunately. That's said a badly position set of wires on set and it's tara Ken Barlow. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fergie86 376 Posted June 20, 2018 Bill Roache is one seriously weird guy, he believes he is going to live to be 120 as he is actually getting younger as his body is regenerating itself and his cells are being replaced by new younger ones due to him training his mind and body to get younger. He thinks the body is designed forever and that pure love can save the world. He probably will live to his mid to late 90s and be in Corrie till his dying day which is a shame as he can’t act and is annoying as hell. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,940 Posted June 20, 2018 Just now, Fergie86 said: Bill Roache is one seriously weird guy, he believes he is going to live to be 120 as he is actually getting younger as his body is regenerating itself and his cells are being replaced by new younger ones due to him training his mind and body to get younger. He thinks the body is designed forever and that pure love can save the world. He probably will live to his mid to late 90s and be in Corrie till his dying day which is a shame as he can’t act and is annoying as hell. At least the other actors who fanny about into their 80s and 90s on Corrie and other soaps have some acting ability. Eileen Derbyshire has many scenes from the 70s and early 80s that show she was competent, Barbara Knox is an astounding actress as the 70s and 80s and quite a bit of the noughties show even if she's become a caricature lately. William Roache has over half a century of line fluffing and phoning it in. I wish they'd repeat Corrie uncensored from the start at a time most of humanity can actually watch it (6.00pm and 6.30pm on a week night on ITV3 and available on itvplayer would be ideal). Partly so the myth that William Roache used to be good can be put to bed forever. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the_engineer 1,415 Posted June 20, 2018 2 hours ago, Fergie86 said: Bill Roache is one seriously weird guy, he believes he is going to live to be 120 as he is actually getting younger as his body is regenerating itself and his cells are being replaced by new younger ones due to him training his mind and body to get younger. He thinks the body is designed forever and that pure love can save the world. He probably will live to his mid to late 90s and be in Corrie till his dying day which is a shame as he can’t act and is annoying as hell. He's already outlived two of his wives and 2 kids. Maybe He's sucking the life force out of them and extending his own. Joking aside i read once the human body is built to live a maxium of 120 years.genetics,luck, standard of living and life choices cut that down. Seems to me the newer generation have gained a decade. People in their 20s still acting childish and like teenagers, people in their 30s getting their life together, marriage kids late 30s /early 40s. Life begins at 50 etc. People in their 60s and 70s alot more active than the generation of people in their 60s and 70s before. On holiday i met and active couple in their mid 70s all my grandparents were dead before their mid 70s. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted June 21, 2018 Roache opens up to the Mail about his life and recent troubles: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5867185/Coronation-Streets-Bill-Roache-86-opens-JANE-FRYER.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,940 Posted June 21, 2018 4 hours ago, YoungWillz said: Roache opens up to the Mail about his life and recent troubles: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5867185/Coronation-Streets-Bill-Roache-86-opens-JANE-FRYER.html For a mail article that's quite interesting, although we might need to change the tag-line to "won't answer questions about how many women he's actually shagged". 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,940 Posted June 21, 2018 Fair play to the mod who changed the tag-line Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,976 Posted April 18, 2020 He looks pretty excellent in lockdown: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/coronation-street-star-bill-roache-21888591 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,248 Posted April 18, 2020 If I look as good as this at 87 (88 next saturday) I will be very happy ! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,605 Posted April 25, 2020 Happy 88th Birthday. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Miracle Aligner 249 Posted June 12, 2020 Posted in this in Betty Driver but probably more apt in here, https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/11817844/coronation-street-bill-roache-lockdown/ A rare glimpse of 'William Roache' as opposed to tarted up 'Ken Barlow' That pic makes me wonder if the 'stroke' he had in Corrie was written to sit around a real life one he had in private? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Watcher 317 Posted June 12, 2020 The last two photos look as if they were taken about 10-15 years apart. The latter one looks like Nigel Havers in 20 years time or a cross between Havers & Bill Nighy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,141 Posted June 12, 2020 13 minutes ago, The Watcher said: The last two photos look as if they were taken about 10-15 years apart. His hair looks the same. Can't see his hands in the first one. I will say, a smile can make a big difference. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Redrumours 861 Posted June 12, 2020 2 hours ago, Miracle Aligner said: Posted in this in Betty Driver but probably more apt in here, https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/11817844/coronation-street-bill-roache-lockdown/ A rare glimpse of 'William Roache' as opposed to tarted up 'Ken Barlow' That pic makes me wonder if the 'stroke' he had in Corrie was written to sit around a real life one he had in private? Looks like he's got a big dog! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,248 Posted June 13, 2020 21 hours ago, redrumours said: Looks like he's got a big dog! He's certainly deteriorated a lot since April ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,976 Posted November 7, 2020 On 20/06/2018 at 17:30, Fergie86 said: Bill Roache is one seriously weird guy, he believes he is going to live to be 120 as he is actually getting younger as his body is regenerating itself and his cells are being replaced by new younger ones due to him training his mind and body to get younger. He thinks the body is designed forever and that pure love can save the world. He probably will live to his mid to late 90s and be in Corrie till his dying day which is a shame as he can’t act and is annoying as hell. Update (or just repetition?) on his quest for immortality: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/13130169/coronation-street-bill-roache-reverse-ageing-process/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fergie86 376 Posted November 7, 2020 16 minutes ago, gcreptile said: Update (or just repetition?) on his quest for immortality: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/13130169/coronation-street-bill-roache-reverse-ageing-process/ I read the article earlier he is certainly away with the fairies. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheKeysOfMarinus 390 Posted November 7, 2020 Looks pretty much the same in both of the photos to me, just one is posed and one is papped. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JR976evil 906 Posted November 9, 2020 On 07/11/2020 at 11:41, gcreptile said: Update (or just repetition?) on his quest for immortality: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/13130169/coronation-street-bill-roache-reverse-ageing-process/ Presumably all the shagging younger women is part of this process too Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted March 26, 2021 https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/14469562/coronation-street-bill-roache-soap-break-fallen-ill/ Bill Roache taking time off Coronation Street after falling ill. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,605 Posted March 27, 2021 13 hours ago, Gooseberry Crumble said: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/14469562/coronation-street-bill-roache-soap-break-fallen-ill/ Bill Roache taking time off Coronation Street after falling ill. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9409215/Bill-Roache-88-forced-time-soap-testing-positive-Covid.html has revealed he tested positive for Covid but has now recovered, 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathrace 1,171 Posted March 27, 2021 1 hour ago, The Old Crem said: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9409215/Bill-Roache-88-forced-time-soap-testing-positive-Covid.html has revealed he tested positive for Covid but has now recovered, Hopefully it's just long Covid and nothing more sinister. He has done well to beat Covid as an 88 year old bloke to be fair. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
