Julie Carp Julie Marie Carp is the younger half - sister of Eileen Grimshaw and was a machinist at Underworld . She is the former girlfriend of Kirk Sutherland , Brian Packham and Dev Alahan . Biography . 2008 - 2009 . She first appeared waiting at the Rovers , where she briefly spoke to Dev Alahan , she was waiting her boyfriend , Kirk Sutherland to arrive . She is a bubbly character who likes to think she shares a personal empathy with other people ' s problems . This was particularly evident at the funeral of baby Paul Connor Jr . ' s funeral as she was very moved by the sadness of the occasion and when Fiz ' s brother Chesney developed a crush on Kayleigh Morton , Julie was interested , as she had made Kirk tell her . She clashed with Fiz several times , as Fiz felt she was trying to take over and Julie thought Fiz wanted Kirk back . In July , she was living with Kirk , Chesney , and Fiz at 5 Coronation Street . When they found out John Stape had been making anonymous phone calls to Fiz , Julie suggested Fiz go to the police . She was also on hand with Kirk when his friend Tyrone Dobbs proposed to Molly Compton . Julie looked for a job in the factory after having spoken to Tony Gordon and managed to get a job and covered for Fiz ' s friend Sally Webster whilst she went on holiday . Despite the past conflicts between Fiz and Julie , they appeared to be good friends . When she spotted Fiz having a drink with John she later told Fiz that she thought John was a kind man and she suggested that Fiz should reconcile with him . In September , Julie admitted that she had been engaged twice before and been in a disastrous marriage before she met Kirk . In February 2009 , Julie admitted that she was getting fed up of her partner Kirk , because of being unemployed and not doing anything about it . Julie ' s boss Tony Gordon put her in an awkward position at work , as he told her to sack one of the seamstresses , who were also her friends , though as supervisor , Tony felt it was necessary to step up to her role more effectively . Tony carried on bullying Julie into sacking one of her friends until she decided to stand up for herself . Tony then told her that she would be sacked unless she did the task in hand . She was later saved by newcomer Luke Strong who told her that her job was safe and undermined Tony . In March 2009 , Julie ' s relationship with Kirk began to strain . She had a pregnancy scare , which was confirmed to be negative much to her delight but to Kirk ' s regret . It was evident that Julie had began to tire of Kirk ' s childish nature and the fact that he was unemployed . In April , she confessed to Hayley Cropper that she needed a " real " man and that she had fallen out of love with Kirk . She was later stunned when Kirk ended their relationship when he saw how they were drifting apart . Julie then moved out of the house . Discovering . Julie ' s mother Paula shocked Julie and friend Eileen Grimshaw with the revelation that they were half - sisters . Eileen continued to pester Julie by asking her about her mother because Eileen and Paula were friends at school . Following her split from Kirk , Julie began to show an interest in Eileen ' s son Jason . The pair got drunk in the Rovers and headed back to No . 11 for a night of passion , little knowing that they were blood - related . At Colin Grimshaw ' s 70th party at the Rovers a few days later , Paula arrived there drunk , urging Julie to stop seeing Jason . This lead to a row between mother and daughter and ended with Paula announcing that they couldn ' t be together because they were related . Colin tried to get her to leave before she said any more but Paula then told the whole pub that Colin was Julie ' s father . A few days later , Julie was horrified to discover that Colin has suffered a stroke . Determined to get to know her father , she went to visit him in Weatherfield General . She was distraught when he passed away , and devastated that she hadn ' t had a chance to know him . In 2010 , Julie started working with Eileen ' s boyfriend Jesse Chadwick in his children ' s entertainment venues , however , when a paranoid Eileen found out , she forbade him to see Julie , even though they briefly still worked together secretly before calling it quits . After a strain in Eileen and Jesse ' s relationship , Jesse kissed Julie and told her that he had feelings for her . A guilty Julie later told Eileen about this in the Rovers and they chase him out of the pub and away from the Street . Julie and Eileen then bonded and promised to make a fresh start with their new - found relationship . Brian Packham . In October 2010 , Julie met John Stape ' s ex - teaching colleague Brian Packham and were both instantly smitten with each other . John however , who was afraid that Brian seeing Julie would uncover his lies to cover up an identity theft , decided to do all he could to split them up . When dining in a fancy restaurant , John and Fiz quickly joined them ; and as Julie and Brian went to the bathroom , John called Brian ' s wife Margaret ( who according to Julie he has separated from ) to tell him what he was doing . After Fiz and John left , Margaret turned up at the restaurant and told a broken - hearted Julie that they were still married before she stormed off . Later that evening , Brian turned up at No . 5 as Margaret had kicked him out and Julie was still insistent that she and Brian were meant for each other . Meanwhile , John claimed that Julie once had a restraining order for stalking a man who didn ' t return her texts . This scared Brian when Julie later turned up at the house ; after Brian finally reconciled with his wife and left , Julie turned up at No . 5 with a bottle of wine before breaking down . In January 2011 , Julie helped Eileen break in to the Builder ' s Yard to obtain Owen Armstrong ' s dodgy accounts and documents , in order to use them as a counter blackmail against Owen ' s threats towards Eileen who cashed a £10 , 000 cheque for Owen into her own account . In June , Julie saw Brian once again at Fiz ' s house when he came over to question Fiz about John . Julie stormed out in anger . Later however , she admitted to Fiz that she still had feelings for him . A guilty Fiz then told Julie how she and John intentionally split her and Brian up in order to conceal John ' s secrets . Julie was shocked but believed that fate would help them reunite and she continued to search for Brian . At the beginning of 2012 , Julie revealed that she was expecting a baby with boyfriend Brian , but it later turned out to be a phantom pregnancy . In late 2013 , Julie and Brian separated after he accepted a job in Wales and ruined their chances of fostering a child . Quotes . " Budge up then ! " ( First line , to Dev Alahan ) " You two look after each other , I ' ll send you a postcard . Bye bye . " ( Final line , to Aadi and Asha Alahan ) See also . Full list of appearances