Eddie Yeats

Edward Jeremy Timothy "Eddie" Yeats is a fictional character from the British soap opera Coronation Street, played by Geoffrey Hughes. He made his first screen appearance on 23 December 1974.

Casting

Hughes joined the cast of Coronation Street as Eddie in 1974. He departed in 1983, but made a brief return in 1987 as part of Hilda Ogden's (Jean Alexander) departure from the show. Hughes was approached several times about a return to Coronation Street, but he declined all offers.

Storylines

1974–1987

Eddie Yeats was born in Liverpool on 22 August 1941. In adulthood, Eddie held low-paid jobs and made extra cash by helping out his disreputable friends with carrying out burglaries and selling stolen goods. In 1973, Eddie was caught by the police and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment. His cellmate at Walton Jail was Jed Stone.

When he was paroled and released from prison, Eddie arrived on the doorstep of Jed's former landlady Minnie Caldwell in Coronation Street, hoping she would give him a room before he had to go back to Walton. His friend Nobby Harris asked for his help to rob a supermarket, but Eddie wanted to stay clean and preferred to pursue barmaid Bet Lynch. During a date the police arrived to escort him back to prison. Eddie had told Bet he was on leave from the army, and she went off him.