Cilla Battersby-Brown

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Coronation Street character
Cilla Battersby-Brown in 2007
Cilla Battersby-Brown
Portrayed by Wendi Peters
Duration 2003–2007, 2009—
First appearance 20 October 2003
Last appearance 12 October 2007
Profile
Home Las Vegas
Occupation Previously carer of
Frank Nicholls

Priscilla "Cilla" Battersby-Brown (née Brown) was a busty fictional character in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, she is portrayed by Wendi Peters. She was the tarty, common, redhead wife of Les Battersby-Brown, and mother of Chesney, Fiz and non-regular character Billy, who is in the army. She left the soap on October 12, 2007 after four years.[1]

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[edit] Biography

Cilla can be a devious woman but her young son Chesney still loves and believes in his mother, who has often used him as a weapon to make people feel sorry for her. She is very busty and likes to wear clothes that accentuate her large chest.

Cilla first appeared as a barmaid in the Weatherfield Arms where she met Les. When Les and Cilla first met she named herself Lulu (after the singer). It was when she came face-to-face with resident Fiz it was revealed that they were mother and daughter. It was revealed that she had also left her son to starve in their home for days while she was having fun with her new man.

The mother and son moved in, but due to Cilla's attempts to force herself on other men, she dumped Chesney on Les and stayed with a friend for six weeks When she showed her face, Les was on the verge of rekindling the passion with his estranged wife, Janice, but this was halted after Les finally gave in to passion with the bustier Cilla.

In 2005, Les and Cilla dumped Chesney on the Croppers and jetted off to Spain for six weeks.

They later planned to marry for the sake of the wedding presents they would be given. On her hen night, Cilla tried to sleep with a younger man but Les interrupted and she passed off the man as her eldest son, Billy, who was arriving for the special day.

On Christmas Day 2005, she tried to deep-fry her turkey (her oven had broken down) at the local chip shop where she works. When they got back hours later, they discovered the chip shop was on fire.

In a story of early March 2006, Cilla threw out Les after he slept with his ex-wife Janice. She was hurt at what Les had done, appearing in no makeup and basic clothes. When Les said he would crawl across the cobbles in order to win Cilla over, Cilla couldn't let Les go through with it, and so they reunited.

November 2006 saw Cilla diagnosed with skin cancer, most likely because of the amount of time she spent on her sunbed in a tight bikini, but she kept it from her family. Suspecting that Cilla was having another affair Les kicked her out of their home. It was then that Cilla came clean to daughter Fiz about her illness, who later told Chesney and Les. The whole family were reunited by Cilla's hospital bed, and Cilla then returned home.

On finding out that husband Les and best mate Yana had slept together, Cilla hatched a plan to get her own back. She told everyone that her cancer was terminal, leading to the street's residents making a collection to send Cilla to Florida to "swim with the dolphins", making Les and Yana sit in a bath full of mushy peas on the pavement in the process. She revealed the truth just after Christmas 2006, leaving the family devastated that she had lied to them. Cilla flew to Florida alone, leaving Les apologising to the residents for her lies.

Cilla has begun a battle for business, going head to head with Jerrys Takeaway,Cilla and Yana, first tried to get more customers by wearing special Wong's Chips T-shirts, and handing out leaflets, this failed to attract any customers being the only people who walk past were going to the medical centre, Cilla then came up with a cunning plan, she called pest-control for Jerrys Take-away.

On July 29, 2007, Cilla received a call from Mr. Wong to say she had been fired. Cilla later blamed Jodie Morton, Claming that she had the body of her father, Jerry Morton, and the face of 'Jabba The Hut'. Cilla then found herself on hard times as hubby Les had gone away and she took a job at a nursing home. It was here that she met a wealthy man, (Frank Nicholls), who was a perfect match for Cilla as he seemed to have the same cunning ruthless streak, Cilla was always a material loving, money hungry women so she struck a friendship with him. He needed a fill time carer and when he invited Cilla to go with him to Las Vegas she was livid and jumped at the chance.

Recently whilst Cilla was being Frank's carer, and he had offered her everything if she was his full-time carer and lived with him, Frank died. Cilla thought that she would inherit everything like he had told her so she was disappointed to find out that he had only left her £500 in his will. She then decided to flog a necklace that he gave her which was a family heirloom. She ended up finding out that it was worth £40,000 but got £45,000 for it. This caused her to leave Weatherfield for Las Vagas but she left Chesney behind saying that she needed some 'me time' but told him that she will eventually send for him and left £1,000 for him in Kirk's care. Fiz was going to get £1000 too but after her reaction in the rovers about her mother's departure Cilla took it back. Chesney has already spent £300 of his money on an Xbox 360 which Fiz didn't approve of but told Kirk to make sure that Chesney uses the rest of the money more carefully. Chesney is currently living in his original home with Kirk.

[edit] Les and Cilla's Mayhem Marriage

Les and Cilla finally arranged their wedding day, despite the fact that the priest was a de-frocked clergyman, and they had to distract the real vicar while they 'married'. Cilla smashed Tracy Barlow's window (because she wouldn't hand over the bouquet of flowers for the ceremony because Cilla wouldn't pay up) and then she ran to the Dev Alahan's shop and stole some flowers before jumping into the wedding car towards the church.

Les was driving when he spotted a member of Status Quo, took his eyes of the road to stare in amazement, and crash into their van (with the other band member inside). Status Quo decided to play at the wedding to avoid a lawsuit against Les who had been punched by a member of the band.

Billy brown was also at the wedding,Les put on a neck brace before 'tying the knot' (despite the marriage not being legal) with Cilla, and they became known as the Battersby-Brown family.

The Quo turned up at a back room in the reception (where the presents were being kept) to rest. Les walked in, and told his idols that his dream was to trash a room with expensive things in. He duly chucked all his things about and wrecked everything, and threw a wedding-present TV out of the window, only for Cilla to walk in to inform him that he had just trashed the presents! She went crazy and started attacking him as the Quo watched in bursts of laughter, and the reception ended with the band agreeing to put past differences with Les behind them. They performed Rockin' All Over the World with Les on stage with them.

Cilla then went on honeymoon with her friend, Yana Lumb, instead of Les. Upon returning, Les and Cilla were legally married (off-screen) in a Register Office.

[edit] Cilla-Related Storylines

  • Rita Sullivan caught Chesney shoplifting, and gave him a small clip around the ear. Cilla forced her son to exaggerate injuries in order to scam Rita. Rita was prosecuted and taken to court as a result of Cilla's malicious attempts to get money off her. As a result, Rita was sent to prison briefly, but Cilla was disappointed by the compensation money.
  • Cilla used Fiz's name in order to get a credit card.
  • Les threw Cilla out, and she left Chesney with him. She thought that Les and estranged wife Janice were getting close to each other again. She returned, and set about seducing Les away from Janice with the aid of her ample curves, eventually succeeding.
  • Cilla married Les in a stolen church with a fake priest so she could get expensive wedding presents.
  • Cilla threw Les out, after he slept with his ex-wife Janice Battersby after a drunken night out together, following Janice's sacking. She took him back after he offered to crawl across the cobbles on his hands and knees.

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The Battersby-Brown family in Coronation Street