It has been a big week on Coronation Street for the Bailey family, after Dee-Dee (Channique Sterling-Brown) gave birth to a baby girl.
The birth was a traumatic ordeal for Dee-Dee, who’s pain was dismissed multiple times.
It wasn’t until she was finally seen by a doctor that it was confirmed she had pre-eclampsia, and needed to be taken in for an emergency caesarean section right away.
She faced further horror when her midwife brushed off how bad she was feeling after the operation, until Dee-Dee passed out and was rushed into emergency surgery.
It was revealed that she had suffered a haemorrhage and doctors had had to perform a hysterectomy to save her life.
The ordeal has understandably taken a toll on poor Dee-Dee, and her family and friends have tried their best to support her.
However, viewers have noticed that Dee-Dee’s mum, Aggie Bailey (Lorna Laidlaw), hasn’t even been mentioned throughout this storyline, let alone visited her daughter.
‘Still no mention of Dee Dee’s mum, Aggie, especially when she needs her what she’s going through, so silly and unrealistic, she should get a mention at least!’ One fan pointed out on social media site X/Twitter.
‘Surely Aggie would come and see her daughter,’ another agreed, while a third added: ‘This is the time that Aggie should be back. Dee Dee needs her mum right now.’
Metro has reached out to Coronation Street for comment.
Aggie last appeared on our screens in 2023, when she left for Birmingham to look after her sick aunt.
In 2024, she ended her marriage to Ed Bailey (Trevor Michael Georges) after hearing about his gambling addiction and subsequent debts.
Last year, on an episode of the Chicken Soap for the Soul podcast with actress Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh, Lorna Laidlaw explained how she had helped to shape the Bailey family, after questioning the way they were being portrayed.
‘I think [the producers] wanted [the Baileys] to have Jamaican accents and I questioned that’ she revealed.
‘I knew it wasn’t truthful. I said to them, “I would guarantee that all the actors you’ve auditioned don’t speak in a Jamaican accent because they were born here. I don’t understand why you give them a Jamaican accent because it makes you feel like they’ve just come here and it makes them that further apart from being rooted in Manchester or wherever you want them.”
‘So we had that discussion. There were lots of little discussions. You know, some people had rehearsed in a Jamaican accent and I just said that I think it’s wrong.
‘Let them feel like they’ve been born and bred. Let them own this city just like everybody else. But I still got the job. So when we started, I had to do a Manchester accent.
‘If you bring grandparents in, that’s a different thing. You know, it’s a different thing. But this generation, my generation, this age group was born and bred.’
Since leaving the cobbles, Lorna has appeared in Channel 5 drama The Good Ship Murder, alongside fellow soap stars Shayne Ward and Catherine Tyldesley.
