Hayley gets a message from Christian, wanting to meet in a caf in Bury. They seemed to be back on the road to normality when Tracy dropped a bombshell she was pregnant, and Roy was the father. Following this, in October 2007, Hayley leaves the Street to go on volunteer work in Mozambique for a year. Due to her longstanding feud with Tracy, Becky was shunned by the residents, with only Roy and her sister Kylie Platt believing her. You can start. The doctor revealed to the couple that the chemotherapy was proving ineffective due to the cancer being more aggressive than expected, and Hayley's life expectancy was revised to mere weeks. I know you do!" While Tracy felt no guilt over her treatment of the Croppers, Ken and Deirdre forced her to pay back the money and make the Croppers godparents to Patience, whose name was changed to Amy Barlow. Producer Brian Park: [We] didn't want to be seen as chasing their tails so much. They saw through his scheme but even their regular attentive method of parenting were beyond what Chesney was used to at home. On her return to the caf, she makes it clear that she blames Roy and this causes problems. Having missed each other, they toured the sights of Amsterdam together, while surreptitiously trying to find out where they stood in each other's affections. ", As the storyline played out, Hesmondhalgh feared a backlash from fans over the storyline but was surprised by the reaction: "I've had so many messages and it's been overwhelming. Later in the year, Roy and Hayley visit Palm Springs, California to visit Sylvia and her companion Milton Fanshaw (Robert Vaughn). Occasionally, Hayley experimented with a more youthful, feminine look, before deciding that it didn't suit her. On 22 January 2014, Hesmondhalgh won "Best Serial Drama Performance" at the National Television Awards. Although devoted to Hayley, Roy could sometimes be insensitive. However, she made an exception for Tracy Barlow, giving her a slap when Tracy made cracks about her sexuality during a heated argument. While minister Jessica Lundy and Spider Nugent kept the reporters occupied, Emily intercepted the wedding party and told them to turn around. Commandeering a pump wagon, Fiz and Becky got the bride to the hotel in time, and Hayley and Roy were married legally. Following him along with Linda and Janice Battersby, she saw him meeting a woman, who turned out to be Beryl Freeman, his dancing tutor. After rummaging through her things, she finds a prescription for some hormone tablets and assumes Hayley is menopausal until Tracy tells her that Hayley used to be a man. After one last moment together, she drinks the cocktail. Hayley tries to comfort Henry as he is not coping. Proving their doubters wrong, they got married in 1999, and again in 2010, by which time changes in UK law meant that their union could be acknowledged legally as a result of the Gender Recognition Act 2004. In 2013, Hayley battled pancreatic cancer. When he transforms himself, it transforms me." A few months later, Fiz returned to the area, older and wiser, and apologised to the Croppers for being rotten to them. Christian was weirded out by her revelation and punched Hayley when she ran after him, leaving her bleeding on the ground. Hayley thought the day ruined but to her great surprise, Roy hastily re-organised the day's events, moving the ceremony to the cafe. They have a wonderful time but their joy is cut short when they are told that Jane has been rushed to a hospice. Steve and Karen marry, despite Tracy's bombshell, and Karen gets her revenge by gatecrashing the christening. Hayley goes for the operation to unblock her bile duct, accompanied by Roy. The letters, authored by Hayley's old friend Cath, revealed to "Harold" the existence of his son. After Maria Connor (Samia Ghadie) accidentally interrupts and raises the alarm, Roy rushes to Underworld but can not help her, while Carla pleads with Tony to let Hayley go Tony eventually relents and throws Hayley out. Roy gets suspicious when Tracy goes on holiday for 3 weeks and realizing how easy it would be for Tracy to disappear with the cash and the baby, Roy insists she marry him (giving him parental responsibility of the baby) or the deal is off. However, this was borne out of a desire to share his interests with his wife rather than selfishness, and Roy was also capable of more romantic gestures, with the occasional prompting from friends. Hayley was the first transgender character in a British soap opera and was the first permanent transgender character in the world of serialised drama. When her family moved to Coronation Street in 2002, they were known as the Nelsons due to being in the witness protection programme. A minority of people expressed their concern at having such "bizarreness" brought into their homes on a prime-time show. Roy and Hayley's role in Fiz's life was as surrogate parents although in contrast to Becky Granger, Fiz rarely leaned on the Croppers for emotional support and her job alongside Hayley in the factory meant that they were as much friends as mother and daughter figures. In March 2000, Hayley attracted the attentions of Stuart Leigh, a builder working on the Medical Centre development. Christian repeatedly makes inappropriate remarks unintentionally so Roy shouts at him, before taking Hayley home. Roy initially rejected her, but missed their friendship and three months later, followed her to Amsterdam where she was living on a houseboat, recuperating from her surgery. Later that year, they supported her when she had her miscarriages, and it was on Hayley's advice that the McDonalds turned to adoption. While Roy was in a vulnerable state due to his grief over betraying Hayley, Hayley acted out in other ways, initially accusing Tracy of making the whole thing up, and then, after persuading Roy to fight for their marriage and not move out as he proposed, adopting a more feminine image, which was not to either of their liking. They later joined the Weatherfield Operatic Society together, with Hayley encouraging a terrified Roy to try for The Sound of Music with her. Just before she left, Hayley got into an argument with Tracy Barlow, standing her ground when Tracy made fun of her sexuality, although it revealed an insecurity in her that Roy didn't find her physically attractive. While there, Christian returns to the street and winds Fiz up about Hayley so she tells him that Hayley has cancer in an angry outburst. Hayley is thrilled but Christian demands Hayley give him money in return as he is in a lot of debt. Roy then assures Hayley that he is not angry, and she confides in Carla before going to the hospital, preparing for her operation. It has been said that the character of Hayley Cropper deserves partial credit for bringing the issues faced by trans people to public attention in a sympathetic manner, rather than the sensationalist coverage that had previously existed. The character Roy Cropper is played by 72-year old English actor Daniel Neilson who has been invested in the role since 1995. Fiz and Becky agreed to be bridesmaids, and Mary found the perfect venue: the Shawbrooke Country House Hotel, which had a function room overlooking the East Lancs steam railway. The result of this was the tabling, in 2004, of the Gender Recognition Act, granting trans people full legal status in their acquired sex. Hayley is delighted to learn that Roy has booked a day off so they can go to Blackpool. Hayley felt compelled to track down her son and hired a private detective, who identified her son as Christian Gatley, manager of a record shop. Making her character pregnant when Julie fell pregnant in real life wasn't possible for the Corrie script team for obvious reasons - Hayley Cropper was born a man. Following the screening of the "wedding" in 1999, the Labour Government announced that a Parliamentary Working Group was being created to assess how the United Kingdom could grant trans people the legal rights for which they had fought for decades. This liaison continued for eighteen months. (First line, to Curly Watts). When she got her results, Hayley was informed by the new GP, Dr. Akhtar, that she had abnormal liver functions and was checked into hospital for an ultrasound scan, which revealed a blockage in her bile duct. Roy is devastated when the consultant tells Roy and Hayley that her cancer is terminal. Hayley and Sylvia go but is devastated when Roy tells everyone that she has pancreatic cancer. It was revealed that Hayley had applied for, and received, her new birth certificate, and so, after some disagreements about the cost and motives for marriage, the plans were made for the wedding. Hayley realises that she has to tell Roy so goes home and tells Roy and Sylvia. With nobody else in the mood for talking, Roy bored the rest of the table with his dry stories, but he had a captive audience in Hayley, and took her out for a drink afterwards. His relationship with Hayley started out platonically, meeting for the first time over dinner at Alma's flat. One of the first things she did was to make a bucket list of everything she wanted to do before she died. Roy and Hayley see an opportunity to raise a child and pay Tracy 25,000. Tired of appeasing Tracy, the Croppers became more aggressive in their dealings with her by telling Ken and Deirdre about her pregnancy, but Tracy hit back by getting an extra 10,000 out of them in exchange for her marrying Roy and then shaming them in public by telling the neighbours about their financial arrangement. Hayley is devastated and furious with Roy. Hayley was, for many viewers, the first transgender woman whose story they had seen unfold on TV. Taking his duties very seriously, Roy upset Hayley by repeatedly critiquing her technique, resulting in her sticking a plaster over his mouth. With Alex threatening to call the police, the Croppers stole Martin's car and, taking with Wayne with them, sought refuge with Hayley's old friend Ruth Audsley in Warwickshire. Hayley was the first transgender character in a British soap opera and was the first permanent transgender character in the world of serialised drama. The couple finally married on 30 August 2010 at a stately home in Cheshire, and almost everyone but the bride arrived by steam train. She wrote to Roy letting him know where she was, and was shocked when, a short time later, he visited her out of the blue. Roy and Fiz go too. According to Roy, he had got drunk at Peter and Shelley Barlow's wedding reception and woke up the next morning in bed with Tracy. As a surprise for Roy, Hayley arranged for the wedding bus to stop at the train station and for Roy to drive a steam engine to the venue, with the bridal party in the rear carriage. When Hayley decided to end her own life when diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer, Roy refused to support her, seeing it as selfish on her part to take herself away from him, cherishing every possible second he could spend with her. The character first appeared in the episode first broadcast on 26 January 1998. Hayley Cropper was created in 1998. Her friend and colleague Alma Baldwin (Amanda Barrie) introduced her to Roy Cropper (David Neilson) and they became friends until Hayley told him that she was transgender and used to be called Harold. This was followed by an upbeat music-filled wake in the Rovers. When Leanne Battersby (Jane Danson) and her half-sister Eva Price (Catherine Tyldesley), argue at the factory, Leanne pushes Eva into Hayley, so Carla throws Leanne out. In 2001, Roy and Hayley decide to become foster parents. Later, Hayley breaks down at work and Carla comforts her. The following week, Carla insists on going with Hayley for a CT scan where Hayley is diagnosed with stage-two pancreatic cancer. The character first appeared in the episode first broadcast on 26 January 1998. Carla drove her to the hospital, where she found out she had pancreatic cancer. Hayley confides in Sylvia on the day of her scan but swears her to secrecy. As the day arrived, the wedding party was just about to arrive when the press turned up at the church. The news quickly spread throughout Coronation Street, stunning the residents. I keep my chin tucked in and my head down and my hands in front of me or under the table, because she would want to conceal her masculine hands. David Neilson has appeared to confirm he wont return as Roy Cropper on Coronation Street. Fiz subsequently returned to the area after turning sixteen, where she enjoyed a far better relationship with the Croppers. I think the whole thing has been incredibly positive." In her sixteen years as Hayley, Hesmondhalgh wore the same red anorak. Upon her return, she faced the disgust of the residents, Hayley among them, although Hayley was one of the first to forgive Carla. In April, Hayley received her father's inheritance and went to Amsterdam for her final operation. Hayley was very non-confrontational, at least when dealing with bigots such as Les Battersby. Hayley made him promise to go on and be her eyes, ears and heart for years to come. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! In January 2001, the Croppers were accepted as foster parents and received their first foster child: Jackie Mosley, who stayed for two weeks while her mother was in hospital. Born as a male named Harold Patterson in 1966, Hayley started treatment to physically become female when she was in her twenties. Given the level of fame Hayley has achieved, anonymity in everyday life has been a blessing for the actress. Hayley was wary of Becky's attempts to befriend her but, sensing something in her, decided to cut her a break and gave her a job at the cafe. With her troubled past, Becky's aggressive and thieving behaviour was a hard habit to break, but she was spurred on by her loyalty to the Croppers. In her final week, Tyrone takes Hayley to the salon for a makeover although Roy wanted her to stay at home and rest. Hayley had respect for her father but he didn't understand her problems. Hayley returns in November 2008; it is clear that she is not entirely happy, appearing evasive and she tells Roy that she wants to return to her charity work, as she has fallen for Olaf, the project team leader. Additionally, Mike discovered her secret when Alma told him why the DSS was insisting that Hayley was called Harold. Hayley enjoyed talking to Christian about Harold, but while she plucked up the courage to tell him the truth, her lies became more elaborate, much to Roy's disapproval, whose one piece of advice on the matter was that she couldn't build a meaningful relationship on a lie. When she met Roy in 1998, a kinship was developed as they were both lonely, introspective people. They successfully applied and were taken on as foster parents. An Early Day Motion was also tabled in Parliament by Lynne Jones, MP, praising the story team and researchers, and Julie Hesmondhalgh for her portrayal.[17]. She agrees and they marry. The following day, Christian visits again and is stunned when Christian says she can see the children. In 2004, she joined the Rovers Ravers, and ended up carrying the team as she was the only one with any experience at the sport. In December 2011, when Tracy Barlow had a miscarriage which she claimed was caused by Becky pushing her down the stairs, Becky defiantly refused to take the blame, claiming that Tracy had lost the babies before the stairs incident and slipped down her staircase of her own accord. Hayley Patterson was devised as a young, shy woman who would fall for Street anorak Roy Cropper. [10] After a brief period of resettlement, she resumed her more familiar temperament of being generally supportive and friendly to the other characters. [9] For a short period of time, after the actor took a one-year break from the show, the producers decided to change her ways. In revenge, Les tipped off a reporter about the wedding between "two blokes". Roy couldn't believe that Hayley wanted to take herself away from him earlier than her illness dictated and refused to support her. Finding her manner odd, Carla investigated and persuaded Anna Windass to let her into the flat, where they found Roy with a lifeless Hayley, who had passed away moments before. In May 2010, Roy suggested to Hayley that they have a civil partnership, to improve their pension benefits. Later that week, Roy and Hayley go to a hospital appointment following her scan and learn that the cancer is a lot more aggressive than anticipated, meaning Hayley only has weeks left to live. They went on to be one of the longest-lasting couples in Coronation Street history, something which pleased the actors. Roy makes sure that she is comfortable and selects a piece of music that they both like. But a particularly interesting one that's caught hold on social media is eating an orange in the shower. Hayley's prognosis was devastating for the Croppers and their close friends, with Roy constantly fussing over her and trying to keep her from tiring herself. Worried something is not right, Anna closes the caf and sits downstairs and Carla knocks on the door, demanding to see Hayley. Hayley did so, but was very troubled by deciding to get involved, and told the police about the fake letter when Angela was arrested for her husband's murder. Anna lets her in and tries to stop Carla knocking on the flat door, but she does. Christian Gatley was the son of transsexual Hayley Cropper and first seen in September 2007 when a Private Investigator found Christian for Hayley, giving her all the information needed about her son, she was also shown a photograph of Christian outside Sound Garden, the record shop where he worked. Well, I was gobsmacked, of course, but I thought it was a fantastic idea. 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