Curly Watts

Curly Watts is a fictional character and primary protagonist of the ITV British soap opera Coronation Street.
In his characterisation, Curly was a kind-hearted man unlucky in love who was introduced in 1983 and became a long-standing resident on the street until he left the area with his family in 2003.
He was portrayed by .
==Biography==
Curly Watts arrived in Weatherfield on 1983 and became one of the regular residents for two decades.
Upon settling himself on the street, Curly befriended local mechanic Kevin Webster. They soon got acquainted with wayward neighbour Terry Duckworth, and later on Curly helped a home removal's business with Terry despite often disapproving on the latter's dodgy behaviour. Curly also lodged with Emily Bishop and became like a son to her.
In 1988 the business folded after Terry ran off with the wife of one of his army mates. Soon afterwards Curly began sating Shirley Armitage who worked at Mike Baldwin's factory.
Curly and Shirley's relationship led to a falling out between Curly and Alf Roberts asked her for a reference but then agreed to let Curly move in without one. They accused Alf of being racist. Eventually Alf backed down when Emily threatened to tell people about the "misunderstanding"
Curly later wrote a report on the factory but since it was negative Mike forced him to hand it over by threatening to give Shirley the sack. Curly threw Shirley's friends out when they were having a party so he could study for an exam and she dumped him. 
Curly was evicted by Alf since he couldn't afford the rent and was taken in by Terry's parents Vera and Jack Duckworth who became a second family to him.
Curly later got a job at Betabuy's supermarket working under Red Holdsworth. Despite their constant bickering and wildly different morals they became friends and genuinely cared for one another. However Curly occasionally stood up for others to Reg such as when he stopped Reg from making Vera redundant by blackmailing him over an affair he was having and saving Ivy Brennan's job from Reg when her alcohol problem interfered with her work.
Curly married Raquel Wolstenhulme but things didn't work out and she left the street, taking her daughter Alice with her. In 1998 Curly's co-worker Anne Malone tried to ruin his life which ended with her death after a security guard locked her in a freezer by accident.
Curly started dating a policewoman named Emma Taylor and became the local councillor. In 2000 Curly was taken hostage alongside Mike and several others like Ken Barlow and Fred Elliott but they were all saved by Emma. In 2001 Curly supported Jack and Vera after Terry was framed for attempted murder.
On Christmas of that year Emma gave birth to her son Ben with the help of Norris Cole who became Ben's godfather. In 2003 Curly was disgusted by Emma's behaviour when she lied to cover up her colleague Mick Hopwood's assault on Les Battersby but forgave her. When Les out of prison and attacked Mick Curly came to Mick's rescue but let both men know exactly what he thought of them. Ultimately Curly and Emma moved away from the area to get away from what had happened.
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*He made a total of 1563 throughout his time on the show.
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