Eddie Yeats
| Eddie Yeats | |||||
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| Coronation Street character | |||||
| Portrayed by | Geoffrey Hughes | ||||
| Duration | 1974–1983, 1987 | ||||
| First appearance | 23 December 1974 | ||||
| Last appearance | 2 December 1987 | ||||
| Introduced by | Susi Hush (1974) Bill Podmore (1976) |
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| Classification | Former; regular | ||||
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| Occupation |
Bin man Window cleaner Builder |
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| Home | Bury | ||||
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| Wife | Marion Willis (1983–) |
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| Daughters | Dawn Yeats |
Edward Jeremy Timothy "Eddie" Yeats is a fictional character from the British soap opera Coronation Street, played by Geoffrey Hughes. He made his first screen appearance on 23 December 1974 and remained a regular until 1983, when Hughes opted to quit. However, he reprised his role in December 1987 to facilitate the departure of Jean Alexander as Hilda Ogden. Despite numerous attempts from producers to persuade Hughes to return, he consistently declined, and Hughes' death in 2012 ruled out a return for the character.
Hughes joined the cast of Coronation Street as Eddie in 1974. He departed in 1983, but made a brief return in 1987 as part of Hilda Ogden's (Jean Alexander) departure from the show. Hughes was approached several times about a return to Coronation Street, but he declined all offers.
Eddie Yeats was born in Liverpool on 22 August 1941. In adulthood, Eddie held low-paid jobs and made extra cash by helping out his disreputable friends with carrying out burglaries and selling stolen goods. In 1973, Eddie was caught by the police and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment. His cellmate at Walton Jail was Jed Stone.
When he was paroled and released from prison, Eddie arrived on the doorstep of Jed's former landlady Minnie Caldwell in Coronation Street, hoping she would give him a room before he had to go back to Walton. His friend Nobby Harris asked for his help to rob a supermarket, but Eddie wanted to stay clean and preferred to pursue barmaid Bet Lynch. During a date the police arrived to escort him back to prison. Eddie had told Bet he was on leave from the army, and she went off him.
After serving the remainder of his sentence, Eddie returned to the street and ingratiated himself with the neighbours, hoping someone would let him stay with them. He tried to fix a date with Bet again, but settled for friendship when he stopped her from taking an aspirin overdose when she found out her son, Martin Downs, whom she never knew, was dead.
Eddie went into partnership with Stan Ogden in his window cleaning business and was allowed to lodge with Minnie at Number 5 and later with builder Len Fairclough at Number 9, but in September 1975 he hid a suitcase containing the proceeds of a burglary carried out by his friend Monkey Gibbons, in Minnie's house, where it was found by the police. Eddie turned himself in and he was charged with dishonest handling of stolen goods, and sentenced to another year in prison.
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