Anne Kirkbride's House
I was at home watching MTV's 'Cribs' last year and it just happened to be an episode featuring the 'crib' of Anne Kirkbride (Dierdre Rachid/Barlow) from Coronation Street.

She had a 2 bedroom bungalow in Salford and it was sweet. The show opened with her walking through her porch talking to camera "hey y'all, this is my porch right here! This is my PORCH! Y'all know what I'm saying?!"

She moved on into her spacious lounge where she had one of those fold out tables. Anne grinned a smug grin and winked at the camera "now this is what I'M talkin' 'bout! This table right here folds OUT. It's real small but when you got your homies round alls you got' do is extend this motherfucker! I had Ken Barlow, Betty Turpin, Emily Bishop and Les Battersby sat round this bitch last night man!"

Anne's kitchen was the most impressive room in the house. It had one of those combined washer/dryers. Anne appeared in front of camera wearing a bandana and a pair of shades and declared "Damn! Some fools out there, they got a washing machine AND tumble dryer! That's some crazy ass shit right there! "

Upstairs we went to be greeted by Anne's fold-out futon "This is where I like to chill. I'll kick back and watch my DVD's on my home cinema system" Anne walked over to her 14" black and white tv and gave it an affectionate pat "This wouldn' be my crib without my plasma screen y'all!"

We were in the bathroom next. Anne stood proudly next to her bath and pointed at her bath chair "I got this right here off Thora Hurd. Now I get lowered into my bath at my own pace, damn straight!"

And with that, Anne booted the MTV team out of her house and the show was over.

Oh, and then I went round there and there was a great party going on with chocolate fingers and student's being sick and wacky and so on.
(Andrew Avetoom, Sat 15 Apr 2006, 9:39, Reply)