Dev Alahan and Deirdre Barlow in Coronation Street might seem an unlikely couple but once upon a time they were the talk of the cobbles!
Coronation Street’s Dev recently seems to have settled into a relationship with Bernie Winters but he was once the Street’s heartbreaker.
And while he was busy wooing half the Street, he bedded both Barlow women! He had a fling with Tracy Barlow, and her mum, Deirdre.
How did that happen, then?
Coronation Street: The beginning of Dev Alahan and Deirdre Barlow
Back in the early noughties, in episodes recently airing in Classic Coronation Street on ITV3, ladies’ man Dev looked like he was going to settle down.
He was happily loved-up with gorgeous Rovers barmaid Geena Gregory.
The couple were devoted to one another and had survived attempts by Geena’s racist mum to split them up because she didn’t want her daughter going out with an Asian man.
Dev and Geena moved in together, and got engaged. But there was a spanner in the works – Deirdre Barlow.
Deirdre and Dev – just good friends?
Back then, Deirdre and Dev were working together at the shop and growing to be good mates.
Meanwhile, she and Ken were rebuilding their relationship, having got back together after poor Deirdre’s stint behind bars, thanks to con man Jon Lindsay.
But their romance had hit an obstacle in the shape of Ken’s grandson Adam Barlow.
Ken hadn’t know Adam existed until Peter revealed his twin sister Susan had a son – whose dad was Ken’s sworn enemy Mike Baldwin.
When Deirdre accidentally let slip to Dev that Adam was Mike’s kid – something Susan had wanted to keep secret – Ken was furious.
But when Susan was tragically killed in a car accident, and Ken wanted custody of the young lad, he realised that being in a stable relationship with Deirdre could help. So he proposed!
Deirdre’s crush on Dev
Deirdre, though, got wind of what he was up to. She walked out in a temper, and went to stay with her boss, Dev.
And Geena.
Geena was convinced Deirdre had the hots for Dev, but he couldn’t see it.
But Geena was proved right, when Deirdre made a pass at a startled Dev!
Dev and Deirdre have a one-night stand
In Classic Coronation Street scenes airing today on ITV3 (Monday, December 5 2022) Dev and Deirdre sleep together.
In the scenes, that originally aired in December 2001, things between Ken and Deirdre were pretty bad again.
And after a Christmas Day argument with Ken – and his son Peter – Deirdre fled to Dev’s flat again.
Dev and Geena were still together, but they’d had a row. And this time it was Dev who put the moves on Deirdre.
Their one-night stand stayed a secret until a couple of years later – when Dev began dating Deirdre’s daughter, Tracy!
Dev and Tracy’s relationship
Tracy arrived in Weatherfield after some time away and announced her marriage to Robert Preston was over.
She decided the best way to get over Robert was to find someone new – and she set her sights on Dev.
Deirdre was fuming about her daughter’s romance with Dev, and even got in contact with Robert, begging him to give their marriage another go.
When Tracy found out why her mum was so against her new relationship, she was disgusted and spitefully forced her mum to confess all to Ken.
Ken and Deirdre made up and later got married again.
Dev and Tracy, however, didn’t last!
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Coronation Street usually airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV.
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