My two favourite TV Blanches died within a few months of each other. The first was Maggie Jones from Corrie (Coronation Street – Blighty’s longest running soap) who died in 2009. I thought she was magnificent. She had all the best lines, one of the finest being (when she suspected her son-in-law Ken Barlow was having an affair with an old male school friend):
‘I have nothing against the gays, Kenneth. It’s just I don’t want my daughter married to one. I’m old fashioned that way.’ Priceless.
My second Blanche was Rue Mclanahan, my favourite character from the Golden Girls. Now only the fragrant Betty White remains from the cast. ‘And then there was one,’ Liam sighed at the time. We spent a commemorative evening reliving a few of Rue’s golden moments from the golden years of the Golden Girls, especially poignant now that we have reached our own golden age.
Perking the Pansies 
I have to say that Stephanie Cole is fabulous in Coronation St as Roy’s mother at present. A worthy successor to Blanche’s throne.
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I didn’t know. We’ll try and catch it on catch up!
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Golden Girls was quite the pro-aging, pro-feminist statement when it had its debut; a really sign of the times. Each of the characters was fun in her own right.
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Oh goodness i still use Blanche’s risque line
“he wanted to put his big purple taxi in her parking space”
i can’t remember it’s context but do remember her delivering it and it is now very much a part of my after 4 G&T’s out withe girls repetoire.
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A fantastic line. There are so many. I’n glad we took that trip down memory lane.
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