Janice Battersby
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| Portrayed by | Vicky Entwistle | |||||||||
| Duration | 1997–2006, 2007— | |||||||||
| First appearance | 4 July 1997 | |||||||||
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| Status | Divorced | |||||||||
| Home | 14a Victoria Street | |||||||||
| Occupation | Factory Machinist | |||||||||
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Janice Battersby (née Lee) is a fictional character played by Vicky Entwistle in the British television soap opera Coronation Street.
[edit] Storylines
Janice was introduced in 1997 and was the mother of the new "common" family on the series. Janice was married to Les, living with him and daughter Leanne from his earlier marriage, and a daughter of her own, Toyah, who was the result of a fling Janice had with Ronnie Clegg when she was 16. Although not above occasional law-breaking, Janice is nowhere near as anti-social as Les.
Janice worked in the Underworld garment factory, where she was consistently rude to her various managers. She broke up with Les after beginning an affair with Dennis Stringer. Les was so upset that he attempted suicide, and while driving him to hospital, Dennis was killed in a car crash; Les survived. Janice later became involved with police officer Mick Hopwood. When Mick and Les got into a fight, Les was unfairly imprisoned, and Janice split up with Mick. A later attempt at reconciliation with Les failed as a result of interference from Cilla Brown. Meanwhile her latest Underworld manager, Danny Baldwin, had his own nickname for her: "Lippy".
In the summer of 2005, Janice to her horror discovered that she had nits. Drunkenly, she asked Sean Tully to shave her head. When she saw her bald head in the mirror she was appalled. A couple of weeks later she had a mud fight with resident Claire Peacock on the Red Rec after Claire called her a "pug faced scumbag".
In a storyline in early 2006, Janice and Leanne were involved in a car accident, when Danny didn't ask Kevin Webster to perform a full service on the car. They crashed into Gail Platt's front wall. Since then Janice became increasingly angry at the Websters, leading to a rivalry with Kevin's wife Sally, Janice's co-worker at Underworld. The rivalry came to a head on February 27, 2006, when Janice was sacked by her employer Danny Baldwin, and shortly after she was punched by nemesis Sally, in the middle of the Rovers Return Inn. She left the street in shame.
However, it was reported in December 2005[1], that despite original plans for her to be written out of the series, Vicky Entwistle's contract was renewed. The scenes that were intended to be her final scenes in fact weren't and she is now back, having returned in April 2006.
In January 2007, Janice's heating broke down and she called plumber Roger Stiles to fix it, who turned up late. After socialising some bit, Roger asked Janice to go away with him for a few months to France, to which she accepted. She returned alone in March and Roger returned in June. She found out that her step daughter Leanne is a prostitute. This has got out and she even had a brawl with Kelly Crabtree on the street.
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