Curly Watts in Coronation Street was the store manager from Bettabuy – and later Freshco – who won the heart of cobbles legend Raquel Wolstenhulme.
Curly first appeared in Corrie as a paperboy, working for Rita at the Kabin, briefly became a binman alongside Eddie Yates, and then landed the job at Bettabuy after completing a business course.
He worked with Reg Holdsworth at Bettabuy, and when Curly was sacked for sexual harrassment, he followed Reg to his new job at Firman’s Freezers, which became Freshco.
Coronation Street: Who did Curly Watts marry?
Curly – whose real name was Norman, though only Emily Bishop really called him that – dreamed of settling down and having a family but he had several disastrous romances over the years.
Eventually, his on/off relationship with Raquel led to marriage, much to Curly’s delight.
But Raquel was really still on the rebound after her ill-fated love affair with Des Barnes.
Though she had proposed to Curly, their marriage didn’t last and after a year, she left Curly for a new life in Malaysia.
Unbeknownst to Curly, Raquel was pregnant when she left in 1996, and later gave birth to his daughter, Alice Diana.
Curly didn’t find out about his little girl until Raquel turned up three years later and asked for a divorce.
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