ASHLEY PEACOCK

'Ashley Sibelius Peacock' is a character from ITV's Coronation Street. He is the son of Fred Elliott and Kathleen Gutteridge, although he was raised by Sam and Beryl Peacock. Ashley was married to Maxine Peacock in 1999, but he ended up a widower when Maxine was murdered by Richard Hillman. He is now married to Claire. In April 2002, Maxine gave birth to Joshua, who Ashley believed was his child, although tests later revealed that Joshua is actually not Ashley's biological son but rather the son of a man with whom Maxine had a one-night stand (who was also the doctor who had performed surgery on Ashley that day), Matt Ramsden. Ashley is aware of this but regards Joshua as his own son, and he is listed as the father on Joshua's birth certificate. Ashley has recently had an affair with Casey Carswell, Claire's best friend he is trying to heal his marriage at the moment.
The character first appeared in 1996 and is portrayed by Steven Arnold.

Contents

Info

Major storylines

Affair with Casey Carswell

Family

Friends

See also

External links

Info

Ashley Peacock is the biological son of Fred Elliott, and shares a similar accent to him. His wife Maxine was murdered by Richard Hillman in January of 2003, and it took him a long time to get over the tragedy. Eventually, Ashley realised that he would need help looking after his young son Joshua, and decided to hire a nanny. Claire Casey was the chosen candidate, and after a while the two fell in love. They were married on Christmas Day in 2004. On their first anniversary, Claire announced to Ashley that she was pregnant. Their son Freddie was born on July 17, 2006.

Major storylines

Other than the storyline involving the death of Maxine, more recently, Fred challenged a rival butcher, Eddie Maddocks, to a boxing match, which was between Ashley and the butcher's son Marvin, who happened to be the local champion. On the day, Fred dropped a mass on to Ashley's foot, mildly injuring him. Ashley carried on with the fight, but in the end Ashley and Marvin agreed on a tie.
His latest storyline revolves around his father's death. Fred went to see Audrey Roberts a few minutes before he was supposed to marry Beverly Unwin, however he died before he left Audrey's house. Although Ashley swears that Fred and Audrey weren't having an affair other residents of the street don't believe him, so he has to cope with the loss of his father and prevent people tarnishing his memory. Ashley also blames Audrey for Fred's death because she told him that she loved him the week before he was due to marry Beverly. Ashley has also had to deal with the effects of the post partum depression which affected his wife, Claire, after the birth of their son Freddie.
In May 2007, after Ashley and Josh went out for the day, Claire and their neighbour Eileen had a meal together and after Eileen left Claire went to sleep. She woke to the sound of a fire alarm and fire spreading through the house. Claire was rescued by Jamie Baldwin and Kirk Sutherland but they could not get back in for Freddie. After fearing the worse the baby was found half a mile away in a local park the next day. A fire investigation showed that accelerant had been used to start the fire, leading the police to believe that it had been started deliberately.
Claire started to suspect former friend Casey Carswell and Ashley thought it wouldn't be her.

Affair with Casey Carswell

More recently, Ashley kissed Casey and they both agreed to forget about the situation.
However it turned out that Casey didn't intend to forget about it and her Ashley and her had sex in the conservatory. They where nearly caught by Claire who returned from her trauma support group. Casey has stil manipulated a guillable Ashley into sleeping with her and Audrey and Kevin know the full story.

Family

★ Father: Fred Elliott (deceased)

★ Mother: Kathleen Gutteridge

★ Wife: Claire Peacock

★ Sons: Freddie Peacock, Joshua Peacock (Adopted)

★ Aunt: Beryl Peacock

Friends

★ Kevin Webster

★ Audrey Roberts

★ Emily Bishop

★ Kirk Sutherland

★ Maud Grimes

★ Roy Cropper

★ Hayley Cropper

★ Bev Unwin

★ Shelley Unwin

See also

★ Coronation Street cast

External links

★ www.corrie.net profile of Ashley

★ Profile of Ashley Peacock at What's on TV