This beautiful lady would’ve been 100 this year ... RIP BETTY XX
@renataloren23847 ай бұрын
What are remarkable woman, actress and singer? I wish I had met her in real life I was far too young, she is my favourite on coronation Street. Love you, Betty.❤️❤️❤️❤️
@brandonh79804 жыл бұрын
Being 20 years old i unfortunately missed out on seeing her in Corrie during the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, but i'm glad i'm old enough (even though i can't remember a lot from the episodes due to only being a kid at the time) to have watched Corrie from 2003 onwards and got to see legendary characters like Betty, Blanche, Jack and Vera. I stopped watching it properly after Betty Driver died because it wasn't the same any more.
@agems56 Жыл бұрын
Brandon H You can watch all of the episodes, or most of them on KZfaq!
@neighbourhoodwitch182 жыл бұрын
Blimey, she would’ve been 101 this year! What a lovely lady 🥰
@wobber999 Жыл бұрын
When I went to eden camp a gorgeous picture of Betty was In the dining room
@Sh0ckmaster4 жыл бұрын
Incredible to think Betty had a film career during the golden era 25+ years before Coronation Street even began. Seemed like a lovely lady, I have many memories of her being on Coronation Street when I was young. RIP.
@1lordthorpe4 жыл бұрын
Coronation street was part of my childhood. I'm 70 something, haven't watched the show for decades. I have a great fondness for the characters of the older era. Many of the old stars had interesting lives and careers, what an interesting life Betty Driver had. I'd forgotten about "Betty's hotpot" Get the feeling that if you met Betty Driver, she wouldn't have been very different to Betty Turpin. She has a warmth and un-pretentiousness.
@louisemorgan95275 жыл бұрын
Wow! What an amazing lady. It was an absolute pleasure watching that. Rest in peace Betty 😘😘😘
@sandsean622 жыл бұрын
great doco, thank you
@christomngrace335 жыл бұрын
betty driver is like angela lansbury everyone wanted them as their grandma
@rogertemple73135 жыл бұрын
"the episodes from the 60's,70's,&80's were full of both drama and humor Bet and Betty always at the pub waiting on the Coronation Street characters to numerous to mention all of them but you know them, that came in and out the doors and listening & interacting with them was great and putting up with Mrs. Walker,her son Billy,&Fred Gee at the Rovers Return,thanks."-🤗. 🌐📻🌐.
@qpulse3 жыл бұрын
I would loved to have met Betty she was an amazingly talented lady and so down to earth. The bit at the end when she was on about her hot pot had me in stitches. Thank you so much for keeping millions entertained Betty, a true star RIP lovely lady xx
@Eurafrican6 жыл бұрын
Aww what a lovely tribute to one of our national treasures. I had no idea her off-screen life was so tough. I'm glad later success at Corrie gave her the laughs and financial security she deserved. What an inspiration!
@andrewquick41763 жыл бұрын
Wow. I didn’t know ANY of this. Absolutely fascinating and heartbreaking What an icon
@douglasholt83534 жыл бұрын
R.I.P Betty Driver
@rollinstone52175 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading this, I thoroughly enjoyed it! I was pleasantly surprised to learn that this docu was narrated by Sir Ian McKellen! Betty is surely missed, fabulous character and I think a genuinely nice person in private. I'm glad she made it to 91, well deserved!
@Tidybitz Жыл бұрын
What a lovely video. My parents were roughly the same age as Betty, and having watched corrie almost from the start, I was told how big a star Betty was years before. I've never seen any of her films but I've heard her lovely singing and I'm so glad she agreed to join the cast of corrie later. Lovely lady. Thanks for posting this.
@brianhaskard10426 жыл бұрын
My old Mum loved to tell me how she saw Betty Driver singing in our local theatre.
@leighmac1625Ай бұрын
An absolute star, I miss her.
@louiseowusu246 Жыл бұрын
I think Betty and Bet were my favourite characters in Corrie. Betty reminds me of my friend - blunt and really funny. Such a lovely humble woman in real life. It was sad when she said that she would have liked her mum to hug her.💔 May Betty RIP
@robertomoi20445 жыл бұрын
Not watched it since she passed. Legend. Tear in my eye :(
@markorollo.5 жыл бұрын
i'll be honest, i used to think "just a soap actor". had no idea she did all that before the street.
@martinward104 жыл бұрын
Same here, I just assumed she had came to acting later in life. Boy were we wrong!
@martinward104 жыл бұрын
@Abbie Hazel Florence Hunter you're an absolute prick and you toon the comment so far out of context so u can have a wee angry rant. Fuckin nutter
@paulmiles91027 жыл бұрын
such a wonderful actress and a lovely lady r.i.p betty gone but never ever for got
@Aaronation-ju9vl4 жыл бұрын
Coronation Street is not the same without Betty Driver. RIP Betty Driver 😢😢😢
@rickallen63785 ай бұрын
It's not the same period. I can't watch any of the episodes past the early 80's.
@jeansuk14 жыл бұрын
Betty....A lovley lady and talent X
@curtwall70894 жыл бұрын
Betty was a talented woman legend
@andywright34503 жыл бұрын
Love Betty great actress lovely lady sadly missed by many 😭😭
@margaritadikanti90626 жыл бұрын
This was lovely. R.I.P. Dear Betty Driver♥
@smokerlad3 жыл бұрын
She was wonderful Betty
@Aaronation-ju9vl8 жыл бұрын
Betty is a kind, ernst and understandable land lady who I wouldn't cross and her time on the Cobbles has made my childhood (especially in the 80s). :'(
@josephlandrut41544 жыл бұрын
Elizabeth Driver was well know for her hot port stew in Coronation street. and for many years was everyone's mother image.
@declancarroll1799 Жыл бұрын
An enjoyable biography. Thank you 😊.
@donnablackman39542 жыл бұрын
Legend♥️
@markgenner33915 жыл бұрын
I Miss Betty Driver
@Lee-sv8su5 жыл бұрын
Much missed!
@rhondamcclements3562 жыл бұрын
One of corrie's legends
@rodkirkbride2230 Жыл бұрын
Betty. What a lass. Ey up our kid. Love ya.
@takexioxlxodkdjohnson66863 жыл бұрын
Amazing career, fantastic actress. Corrie legend and excellent in hit TV series ugly betty
@gerryogilvie92944 жыл бұрын
You can truly call Betty a legend.
@maggieb3694 жыл бұрын
One of my favourite Corrie characters for sure! When I hear “ot pot” I think of her
@kevinhoward87942 жыл бұрын
Wonderfull lady xxxx Wow Wonderfull lady x
@bunnyboyau9 жыл бұрын
Loved Betty
@SandraRees7 жыл бұрын
Betty was such a wonderful, down to earth character and will always be truly missed:-) R>I>P Betty.xx
@maxwelljohnson50285 жыл бұрын
Glasgowlass I loved her
@007vauxhall12 жыл бұрын
Very nice tribute to her! :-)
@clivestuarteardley60495 ай бұрын
She was absolutely 💯
@josephwickham60423 жыл бұрын
Rip Amen
@thunderbirdsigns4 жыл бұрын
sigh, feeling nostalgic
@alanmundy1276 жыл бұрын
To hear a more detailed and moving interview, go to Betty Driver's Desert Island Discs appearance in January 2011 on BBC R4 (all the more poignant as she died later that year). I knew little of her, but was moved and impressed with her plain and humble speaking. I admired in particular the way she said she'd never forgiven her mother, though without bitterness.
@davidjanson99006 жыл бұрын
the biggest star coronation street ever had by a mile
@benswindlehurst18574 жыл бұрын
david janson wasn’t one of the Monkees in Coronation Street?
@scottsmith96918 жыл бұрын
♥♥♥ Betty ♥♥♥
@haydo83735 жыл бұрын
I still remember her saying "I know chook, I know chicken" when consoling a younger female on coro (it may have been maria) - ~15 years later
@brandonh79804 жыл бұрын
Are you not thinking of when she consoled Claire after Ashley died in the Tram crash/Joinery explosion?
@josephlandrut41546 жыл бұрын
betty would know her true partner now she has achieved perpetual life, one man, one wife make harmony together and when they put company will come together eventually.
@dawngilmour69614 жыл бұрын
Betty's hot pot any day. A Legend. God Bless ya girl xxxxx
@youtubehatesus26512 жыл бұрын
Ha ha. I looked up Betty's hot pot recipe online. +_+ Thanks for video.
@melanieblake26897 жыл бұрын
rip betty.
@karenimran33493 жыл бұрын
Betty had such a wonderful personality. She was everyone’s favourite.
@darrensheahan1763 жыл бұрын
What a legend xx
@bbmeesci59507 жыл бұрын
Legend ,
@analogueandy8x104 жыл бұрын
19:03, Betty nails it as to why Coronation Street is boring today...at least for me.
@alittlebitoflight12 күн бұрын
Much respect to Ian McKellen, and most of all to the great lady herself. It's an earthy and classy production. All too appropriate.
@swaggerjagg225 жыл бұрын
They should have kept the way they used to do thing in the old days more talk less action cause coronation street was supposed to represent every day people in the north but now it doesnt
@teresacalladine7479 Жыл бұрын
Very very interesting
@oliver91ist2 жыл бұрын
Was the show edited as I remember this was a hour long and they talked more about the Betty’s storylines like for example her secret son Gordon with Bill Kenwright talking about their scenes and that she became a second mother to him
@KazgarothUsher3 ай бұрын
That bloody hotpot :D
@karlmaldensnose58896 жыл бұрын
Ken Barlow does all these Tributes, Betty was a stalwart and was always part of the scenery, never had any memorable storiylines
@alex-xz2dm4 жыл бұрын
i a to l him intro this doc
@cidercik4 жыл бұрын
12 pound new born? Holy shit.
@bonniescott64704 жыл бұрын
When coronation street was good stopped watching in the 90s
@johnstonion6 жыл бұрын
Betty Turpin
@nativenewlondoner3 жыл бұрын
Hotpot Ken?
@MultiVince958 жыл бұрын
Nice
@aprilblossom92682 ай бұрын
She really was a one-off... Bizarre that her Father was a Policeman and that her invisible hubby in Corrie was also a Policeman...Never saw him that I remember...off to find her hot pot recipe now. Lovely that they still have her photo on the pub wall.
@janhangland54997 жыл бұрын
Corrie changed after Betty passed. I stopped watching and William Roache was the only actor I liked anymore. Writing is ludicrous. The writers lost sight of what made Corrie great. It's now a trashy soap opera devoid of humor and warmth. The characters have all married one another, at least twice. They need to cancel Coronation Street or get rid of 90% of the cast and take the show back to the original values.
@Eurafrican6 жыл бұрын
Well said Jan. I believe they can have a balance. Revive their character based comedy and drama, with one typical soap full of action plot running every six months. Their ratings would revive as well, I'm pretty sure of that.
@Eurafrican6 жыл бұрын
I believe they should go back to their original format too. It would work if they had one melodramatic plot running every six months or so, and focus on what made the show into the iconic phenomenon it did.
@laminage5 жыл бұрын
Betty was like The "Mommy" of Barmaids. She represented the last of the Old School Barmaids. She worked with Annie Walker, Bet Lynch and today's Generation of Coronation Street Folks would be blown away at how things were like back in the day. I had no idea that Kimberley Walsh of Girls Aloud auditioned to play Maria Sutherland and lost to Samia Ghadie Smith.
@patrjckmccullry38495 жыл бұрын
I agree gone to far
@martinward104 жыл бұрын
Agreed. It's such crap now
@orlansmith62306 жыл бұрын
Betty Driver passed away in hospital in 2011 aged 91 from bronchopneumonia She was in hospital for six weeks As of 2018, she's been in Heaven for 7 years so far
@MrWeekendoff6 жыл бұрын
It’s funny at half speed!
@talonfrench77033 жыл бұрын
Around In The 1980s She Said "Tomorrow I'm Going To My Solicitor And I'm Suing You For Defamation Of Character. So Mrs Walker,You Can Your Best Sherry Where The Monkey Punches Its Nuts Do I Make Myself Clear."
@estellecollins27736 жыл бұрын
Can anyone upload the episode where Alec tells Betty that she is sacked and she walks out. It's a clip on this video toward the end?
@lauracook7586 Жыл бұрын
who can forget bettys hot pot
@gregbouchard414 Жыл бұрын
She wos a rally good Lady she ded a rally good Lady
@robloxfanvlogs75284 жыл бұрын
She would have been 99
@GraceEH5 жыл бұрын
Can anyone give me the date of the episode when Betty is in hospital, also episode date 2:47 xx ? What a talented women Betty was RIP xxxx
@dannythomas47265 жыл бұрын
It was from may 1982, betty had been mugged
@AllansArts5 жыл бұрын
42 yrs...pinched a living.
@johnrider374910 ай бұрын
She was the last of the gritty no nonsense northern female characters from the golden age of coronation street,
@nicholasgargano7396 Жыл бұрын
Betty bet Fred Annie greatest rovers team ever
@debsy914 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised to learn what an illustrious career she enjoyed. I saw her character as two dimensional on Corrie because she never had a backstory. More a glorified extra than one of the main characters who would pop up behind the Rover's Return bar on occasion and have a couple of lines.
@rodkirkbride2230 Жыл бұрын
Betty, like a lot of older stage actors werent used correctly on soaps. They were caricatured. Lynne Perrie (Ivy Tilsley) as a prime example. Saying that like, Fred Feast, had some great comic timing. Very under rated actor Fred.
@ysgol34 жыл бұрын
Betty D was of course lovely, but Classic Corrie reveals, amazingly, that Betty T was a snappy aggressive judgemental old bat.
@craig15382 жыл бұрын
I thought a Betty Driver was the Queen's chauffeur.
@richardloring75452 жыл бұрын
Born 12 llbs...Was she born eating hot pots.....very pretty young woman....I clean a 95 year old ladys windows and she is still beautiful....its strange really n dont obviously mean sexually biut its quite nice n she is lovely temperant....Gives me hope....Smashing
@leeandrews24735 жыл бұрын
Ha ha. Betty's hot pots.
@susankitson47325 жыл бұрын
Oak
@hugoboss5895 Жыл бұрын
They don’t make um like Betty anymore.
@cn49364 ай бұрын
Mr and Mrs Formby would be the people 'we would avoid' these days. Not exactly 'right'. I dare say Betty dodged a bullet.
@sunnysim79214 жыл бұрын
My Mum started her professional singing career at age 13 yrs in 1947, and sang with Vera Lynn in a concert. She was humble, and modest all of her career, and could have gone very far after appearing on Opportunity Knocks if she hadn't decided on bringing up her family in the 70's. I would say Betty Driver seemed quite conceited about her talent, and success, which is not becoming.
@Feddergenetics2 жыл бұрын
Her mother pushed her into it so your research first before typing nonsense !!