Kimberley Taylor Kimberley Taylor was an employee at Bettabuy supermarket who was engaged to Curly Watts . Kimberley ended the relationship and transferred to another store when Curly pestered her to have sex before marriage . They reunited through a dating agency a year later before splitting for good when Curly blew £2 , 000 converting his loft into an observatory against Kimberley ' s wishes . Biography . 1989 - 1991 . Kimberley Taylor was the daughter of Randolph and Brenda Taylor . She was an only child and had a strict , sheltered upbringing as her parents were old - fashioned church - goers . In October 1989 , Kimberley met Curly Watts , the new assistant manager at Bettabuy supermarket in Albert Road where Kimberley was a general assistant . On Curly ' s first walk around the shop floor , manager Reg Holdsworth invited him to point out where Kimberley had made a mistake in her shelf - stacking technique . Curly re - arranged the display so that it would be more eye - catching to the customer , introducing himself to Kimberley as he did so . Kimberley was taken with " Mr . Watts " but was unsure how Curly felt about her as he ' d praise her one minute and criticise her the next . Curly ' s landlady Vera Duckworth noticed the mutual attraction when she started at Bettabuy and tried to matchmake by inviting Kimberley over for tea at 9 Coronation Street as a surprise for Curly , who didn ' t want to ask her out himself as he was her boss . Away from the cutthroat world of retail management , Curly was nicer to Kimberley and they started to date . The following May , Kimberley was promoted to checkout at Curly ' s recommendation . Curly was keen to take their relationship to the next level and an opportunity presented itself when the Duckworths went on a second honeymoon to Pwillheli . Kimberley agreed to lose her virginity to Curly , but changed her mind at the eleventh hour , deciding to save herself for her wedding night , and slept in the next room instead . The next morning , Kimberley ' s mother Brenda appeared at No . 9 having found out that Kimberley had lied about where she was staying the night , and caught her daughter there in her dressing gown , proving to her that nature had taken its course . Kimberley enlisted Curly ' s help in smoothing things over with her parents , but while doing so , Curly gave the impression that he and Kimberley were planning a wedding . Her parents were so happy with this news that Kimberley - salivating at the prospect - railroaded Curly into getting engaged . Kimberley spent the next few months on a doomed mission to bring Curly into the family . When he turned down invitations to live with the Taylors and accompany them to Barmouth on their traditional caravan holiday , Kimberley started having second thoughts about marrying him . To please her , Curly agreed to go to Barmouth , but he was saved when Reg Holdsworth made his computer training course clash with it as a favour . In December , Curly made plans to whisk Kimberley away to a hotel for Christmas and convinced her to break her vow against pre - marital sex for the occasion . As far as the Taylors were concerned , he and Kimberley were spending Christmas Day and Boxing Day at his parents ' house in Crewe , but their cover was blown when Brenda sent the Watts a letter of thanks and Eunice Watts called her to put her straight . When confronted by the Taylors , Kimberley was shamed into confessing and Curly was thrown out for seducing their " little girl " . Curly was prepared to let Kimberley go - he ' d had enough of her mother - but when the Taylors visited him a few days later to make amends he agreed to reconcile and bring the wedding forward to placate them . Having won back Kimberley , he implored her to stop letting her mum run her life . However , Kimberley loved her mother dearly and his attacks on Brenda upset her . To prove that she had a mind of her own , Kimberley returned his ring and broke off the engagement . Kimberley wanted to make clean break and forget about Curly . Helping her in this endeavour was Adrian Gosthorpe , Kimberley ' s second cousin who began lodging with the Taylors in January 1991 . Their relationship was platonic at first but within a few weeks Kimberley allowed Adrian into her bed . To get away from Curly , Kimberley requested a transfer to another branch of Bettabuy , though Curly intercepted it and tore it up in front of her . When he found out that she ' d slept with Adrian , incensed Curly caused a scene on the shop floor , telling all the customers their business . Reg then intervened and forced Curly to transfer Kimberley to Bettabuy ' s Bolton branch effective immediately . 1992 - 1994 . By August 1992 , Kimberley had joined Cupid ' s Arrow Introduction Bureau and under the guise of Janet Shaw was paired up with Gerald Murphy who turned out to be none other than Curly . Deciding fate had brought them together they gave their relationship another go . One problem was Angie Freeman , Curly ' s lodger . Kimberley wasn ' t comfortable with Curly living with a woman and told him to throw her out . Curly tried to make her believe their relationship was platonic , and tried to satisfy her by asking her to marry him . Kimberley accepted but they hid his living arrangements from parents . When Brenda found a bra at No . 7 which Curly said wasn ' t Kimberley ' s , she assumed Curly was a womaniser and refused to give her blessing to the marriage . Curly decided to stand up to the Taylors , telling them all about Angie and that they wouldn ' t stop him from marrying Kimberley . At this point in time , Kimberley was working for Krazy Kuts , a rival supermarket to Bettabuy . Reg Holdsworth briefly entertained the idea that Kimberley ' s engagement to Curly was actually a front for her to steal Bettabuy ' s secrets . Once he realised he was mistaken , Reg tried to get Curly to pump Kimberley for information about Krazy Kuts ' festive plans . Kimberley told Reg they were using topless checkout girls . With their wedding delayed until Spring because of Randolph ' s hernia , Kimberley and Curly went on holiday to Cornwall . Their plans to consummate their relationship during the outing were scuppered by Kimberley ' s sickness , though they did finally have sex when they got back . Since Curly last knew her , Kimberley had become more assertive . Curly took this as a sign she was turning into her mother and , looking with horror at the Taylors ' marriage , started deliberately upsetting Kimberley to let her know she wouldn ' t be the boss in their relationship . In November , he converted No . 7 ' s loft into an observatory , and bought an expensive telescope . He let Kimberley believe he was having a third bedroom converted , but Neil Mitchell innocently told her the truth . At first Kimberley was upset about Curly not trusting her but once she discovered the project would cost £2 , 000 - when they were saving for a wedding - she told him to choose between the telescope and her . Angie had accused Curly of using the telescope to push Kimberley into breaking the engagement , but whatever his motivation , Curly went ahead with the loft conversion and let Kimberley walk out of his life for the last time . Kimberley collected her things from No . 7 and returned Curly ' s ring , telling him he had given her the confidence to believe in herself . Curly ' s behaviour towards Kimberley came back to haunt him two years later . In October 1994 , he was confronted with a file of harassment claims made against him and sacked from Bettabuy . One of the complainants was Kimberley , who ' d lodged the complaint in January 1991 due to him hounding her about Adrian Gosthorpe . Personality . When Kimberley met Curly Watts in 1989 , she was a naive , romantic young girl in her early twenties who dreamed of being swept off her feet . Having fallen for Curly , she tried to make herself more desirable to him by getting some business books from the library to talk shop . Both parties were reluctant to make the first step and it fell to Vera Duckworth to bring the shy couple together with some match - making . Curly was Kimberley ' s boss but this didn ' t factor into her attraction to him ; when he was officially made assistant manager in July 1990 and became full of himself , Kimberley poured a pint over his head to bring him down to Earth . Kimberley was prim and proper but immature for her age and prone to hysterics , especially when caught between Curly and her parents . She loved and obeyed her strict mother Brenda Taylor , who had continued to treat her like a child into adulthood . Curly tried to break through her conditioning , but only succeeded in turning her against him . Background information . Kimberley first appeared in Episode 2983 ( 25th October 1989 ) , which also introduced Bettabuy and its manager Reg Holdsworth . In Episode 2986 ( 1st November 1989 ) , Kimberley tells Curly Watts that her birth name was Louise and that she was found under a cinema seat as a baby and spent her childhood in foster care before being adopted and baptised at 14 . This backstory ( if meant seriously ) was never referred to again and was contradicted when Kimberley ' s parents were introduced in June 1990 . Kimberley was off - screen between August and December 1990 due to actress Suzanne Hall being on maternity leave . She was written out two months after her return , departing in Episode 3187 ( 13th February 1991 ) . Her 1992 stint ran from Episode 3420 ( 5th August 1992 ) to Episode 3469 ( 27th November 1992 ) . Quotes . " Hello Mr Watts . " ( First line , to Curly Watts )