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Article: SoapBox: BET'S BIG GAMBLE; Tony Stewart's week ahead.(Features)

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The Mirror (London, England)
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June 8, 2002
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Byline: Tony Stewart

CORONATION STREET

There's more bristling leopard skin than at supper-time on an African game reserve. Her bare-teethed smile is as false as her blonde wig and eyelashes, and there's as much gold jewellery dripping from her neck as venom spilling from her mouth. "I'm going to Weatherfield, cock," she says squeezing into a cab. "Pub called the Rovers Return, Coronation Street... if yer know it." Queen Bet's back and she means to reclaim her crown.

Seven years on from her acrimonious departure, Bet Lynch is a vulgar collision ...

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