Jenny Connor

**Coronation Street's Jennifer ''Jenny'' Connor nee Bradley is Jonny Connor's Wife and Daughter of Alan Bradley**

**6 January 1986**

### **1986–1993**

**Jenny was fostered by Rita Sullivan (Barbara Knox), following the death of her mother, Pat in a road accident. Her father, Alan Bradley (Mark Eden), was traced after being absent for six years and re-entered her life. Although she initially felt bitter towards him, they soon bonded as he settled into No. 7 with Rita.**

**Aged seventeen, Jenny ran off to France with Martin Platt and met a medical student, Patrice Podevin (Franck Dubosc), and fell in love with him. Patrice followed her back to the UK and they got engaged, though Patrice promised Alan that he would wait until he had finished his studies before they got married. However, after he discovered that Jenny had kissed another man at a party, Patrice called off the engagement and returned to France. On the Eve of her eighteenth birthday in 1989, Jenny stops Alan suffocating Rita but continues to stand by her father regardless, although she was torn between her loyalty to him and her love for Rita. Due to his trial plea, he is allowed to walk free but returns and starts stalking Rita, causing her to have a breakdown and losing her memory. Rita moves to Blackpool, but her absence makes many residents think Alan has killed her, and he becomes the object of widespread hatred and suspicion. Alan soon tracks Rita down, but dies after being hit and killed by a tram whilst chasing a distressed Rita across the tracks. Jenny blames Rita for his death and begins to study Biology at Weatherfield Polytechnic the following year. During this time, Rita moves into a flat on the other side of the street and rents the house to Jenny and her friend, Flick Khan (Rita Wolf), also a student at the Polytechnic. Jenny drops out of her course after becoming bored and starts an affair with a married dentist, Robert Weston (Philip Bretherton). When he leaves his wife, she moves in with him but the relationship does not last very long, and in 1991; Robert went back to his wife and Jenny left the street. In 1993 Jenny visited Rita and asked her for £30,000 to start a beauty salon but Rita gave her £1,000 and threw her out of her home. Jenny later marries a man named Mr. Midgeley and they had a son named Tom, who drowns in a paddling pool. Jenny left him unattended while she went inside to get her handbag for money to buy him an ice cream from the ice cream van. Tom was four years old when he died.[3]**

### **2015-**

**Jenny is revealed to be the woman Kevin Webster (Michael Le Vell) has been talking to on a dating website. Kevin asks her to come to The Rovers Return Inn, but she told him that she wanted to put the past behind her and wondered how Rita would react to seeing her again. Later that month, Rita and Jenny met in The Rovers. Rita was distraught and Jenny stormed out of the pub because of Norris Cole's (Malcolm Hebden) nasty comments. Rita visited Jenny at Kevin's house and warned Jenny not to try her "little schoolgirl tricks". Jenny and Kevin slept together and she became obsessed with his son, Jack (Jaxon and Maddox Beswick). Kevin's 20-year-old daughter, Sophie Webster (Brooke Vincent) becomes suspicious of Jenny and tells her girlfriend, Maddie Heath (Amy James-Kelly), and Kevin but they do not believe her. Sophie remains wary, despite Jenny's attempts to ingratiate herself. Maddie realises that Sophie was right when she goes home and finds that Jenny has packed a bag for Jack and is wearing a brunette wig. She guesses that Jenny is planning to run away with Jack and tries to stop her but Jenny pushes her over and vows that Maddie will not be leaving. Jenny mentions that she didn't mean to hurt "Tom", and a shaken Maddie manages to escape, only to be killed by an explosion triggered by Tracy Barlow (Kate Ford) setting fire to Carla Connor's (Alison King) flat in Victoria Court.**

**After Sophie and Kevin leave for Maddie's funeral, Jenny seizes the opportunity to abduct Jack as Kevin agreed that Jenny should look after him, leaving the Websters distraught. She takes him to a flat in Hull and throws a birthday party in her dead son's memory. He had died aged four in April 2013 after apparently being left unsupervised in a paddling pool – with Jenny believing that Jack can take his place. When she notices Jack is not participating, she shouts at him and sends him to his room; Jenny is seen on the flat's balcony later with Jack, releasing balloons into the sky. Rita arrives after a tearful Jenny phoned her, asking her to visit. Rita visits, bringing Kevin and Sophie, but Jenny is enraged as she asked her to come alone. Sophie tells Jenny to bring Jack down but Jenny refuses, disturbed by her grief at losing Tom. Kevin tries to reason with her Jenny returns Jack and prepares to jump, feeling she has nothing to live for. As the police arrive, she breaks down in tears and says that she doesn't know who she is any more, before she is arrested and brought down. She apologises to Kevin but he is no mood to listen and she is led away into a police car. The next day, Jenny is sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983. In January 2016, Jenny contacts Rita through Facebook. Rita visits Jenny, who tells her she has changed and got a new flat. However, when Jenny runs away, Rita sees the state of Jenny's flat and allows her to stay with her; to the annoyance of Sophie and Kevin.**

**She later sparks a romance with Johnny Connor (Richard Hawley) and he takes her to Blackpool for her to say goodbye to her father on the anniversary of his death. Kevin and his friend Tim Metcalfe (Joe Duttine) have taken Jack to Blackpool as well. He runs from them and Jenny saves him from being hit by a tram, earning everyone's respect again. A few days later, once she has appeared in the newspaper; Jenny asks Johnny if she can get a job as a machinist to which he agrees. After work, he goes to teach her and Jenny flirts with him. Lead on by this, Johnny tries kissing Jenny but she pulls away. She still continues to flirt with him however, meaning that she could be using him or she's "playing hard to get". Johnny later proposes to her.[4] They split up briefly but reconcile when Johnny tells her about his multiple sclerosis. On Jenny's hen night, Rita collapses and is taken to hospital and Jenny is upset when Gemma Winter (Dolly-Rose Campbell) tells her that Rita has been suffering from memory loss. The next day, Jenny and Johnny are unsure whether to go through with the wedding but they decide to get married and go to the venue on motorbikes. After Sally Metcalfe realised that nobody is there to give her away, she decides to do it. Later, Jenny and Johnny say their vows but realise they can't do it without Rita's presence and go to the hospital to get married there. Jenny and Johnny's new life as newlyweds doesn't go off to a great start when they find the factory empty of furniture and even without the roof intact. Upon learning that Johnny's son Aidan Connor's (Shayne Ward) fiancée Eva Price (Catherine Tyldesley) is responsible as revenge for Aidan's affair with Maria Connor (Samia Longchambon), they ultimately disown Aidan and eventually report Eva to the police. In time, however, Jenny and Johnny forgive Aidan and plan to move to Spain for a new life in the sun. However, a few days before they are due to leave, Aidan commits suicide and the Connor family are left distraught.**

**Jenny later finds out that Johnny had an affair with Liz McDonald (Beverley Callard) although she forgives him as he was grieving for Aidan. She, however, grows paranoid, drinks alone and puts a tracker onto Liz's phone. After, Johnny finds out, they argue and Jenny falls down the stairs, leading Gemma to believe that Johnny is abusing Jenny. On Christmas Day 2018, an upset Jenny gets drunk and accidentally runs over Liz with Johnny's car. Johnny initially takes the blame but Jenny tells Liz as she cannot bare the thought of Johnny going to prison. Liz tells the police and they are both arrested. After this, Jenny starts to shut herself away and starts drinking heavily again. However, on the day of the trial, Liz changes her mind about going and instead goes on holiday, with the help of Gemma, who Jenny now sees as family. The next day, Jenny and Johnny have a heart-to-heart about their marriage when he quizzes her on her drinking. They both later realise how much they love and need each other, agreeing to put the last few months behind them.**