351:, Dorothy Hobson suggests that Raquel epitomised the representation of Northern working-class women during the 1990s: "Raquel articulated the hopes of many young women in her position. The character was complex; one that the whole audience loved, she was naive, gentle, and although she looked as if she would break men's hearts, for the most part it was her own heart that was broken." Hobson deemed Raquel's breakdown at the registry office prior to her marriage to Curly "one of the most poignant and heartbreaking of any scene in a soap opera, or indeed in any other dramas." She felt that in sobbing with awareness that she was marrying not for love but security, Raquel "spoke of the young working-class women, bright, intelligent, who had been failed by the education system, thus united the shared cultural knowledge of the audience as she wept for herself and millions of other women like her."
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tells Curly, who attacks Leo. Raquel gives evidence of sexual harassment against him and Leo is fired. She and Curly grow closer in the aftermath. Though Raquel sleeps with Des again, he makes it clear that it was just a one-night stand, and Raquel accepts that she will never mean as much to Des as he does to her. Later that day, Raquel proposes to Curly. They have a quick register office wedding, and it is not until their honeymoon that Raquel admits what happened with Des. Curly forgives her, and their married life is initially happy. It does not last, however, and within a year Raquel leaves Curly to accept an
259:. His starting point was Bettabuys supermarket—a Northern "everyman" chain—and a conceptualisation of characters that might populate it. A Miss Bettabuy competition was suggested as a humorous storyline, with comedy derived from the contradiction between a beauty contest and the "prosaic and mundane" setting of Bettabuys. From this, the name Raquel Wolstenhulme was devised, contrasting the glamorous Hollywood connotations of 'Raquel' with the down-to-earth Northern surname 'Wolstenhulme'. This glamorous/mundane contradiction was then encapsulated in the character.
523:", writing that Raquel, "as is the strange way of stars, shines bright long after the star itself has gone." Reviewing the two-hander episode between Raquel and Curly, Banks-Smith called it "profoundly melancholic", describing Raquel as, "the barmaid every man dreamed would serve him, leaning like the blessed damozel from the gold bar of heaven, backed by shining spirits in bottles. A barmaid in excelsis. Beautiful as a daffodil though not as bright. A fine comic creation but entirely without a sense of humour." Ross, a long-standing fan of
403:, but did not confide in anyone beside her close family, or take any time off work, which in retrospect she deemed "the worst thing could have done." Lancashire departed in 1996 due to her heavy work schedule and desire to pursue other projects. She had grown tired of the fame the role brought her, shying away from personal appearances and interviews with television magazines, which made her feel "like an airhead". Although at the beginning of her tenure she agreed to some interviews, she later refused all publicity for
302:'s Anne Richardson called Raquel "the very definition of loveable", writing: "Always trying to better herself, but without any social climbing snobbery, she longed for a better life whilst always seeming to be resigned to the fact that she'd never actually get there. Sweetly naive and tragically vulnerable, we longed for her to find her happy ending and our hearts broke every time hers did."
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embellished. She took it upon herself to highlight Raquel's potential, playing against what had been written to make her more comic, evoking the sympathy of the audience. Thereafter, Raquel was often used for comedic purposes, though
Lancashire attempted to keep her from becoming simply a figure of fun. During one storyline, she was taught French by Weatherfield teacher
487:) allows Raquel to move into the Rovers. She dates Weatherfield County FC striker Wayne Farrell (Ray Polhill), but breaks up with him and pushes him into a canal when she discovers that he is cheating on her. Des and Raquel repair their relationship and move back in together but break up again when Des has an affair with Raquel's workmate,
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received 70 complaints and investigated when
Granada then broadcast the special on television on 24 March 1996. It received 16 million viewers, and prompted hundreds of complaints to Granada. A spokesman stated that Granada had always intended to broadcast the special "once a suitable period had
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Raquel renews her friendship with Curly, who falls in love with her and proposes. Although Raquel accepts, she tells Des that she loves him, not Curly and decides to break off the engagement. The following year, Curly's boss Leo Firman (John Elmes) attempts to rape Raquel. She manages to escape and
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legend." Lancashire recalls it as a well-constructed storyline with credible pacing, explaining that "because Raquel lives in this very idealistic world – she's such a dreamer – when reality hits her, it hits very, very hard. That really was the first opportunity we'd had to strip away a bit of the
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most popular ever characters and her return an opportunity for her "millions of fans" to learn what had happened to her in the intervening years. Lancashire and
Kennedy were the only cast members to appear in Raquel's return episode, marking the first time the programme had featured just two
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birth, where she fell in love with her employer, by whom she is now pregnant and wishes to marry. Curly agrees to a divorce, giving Raquel's new relationship his blessing. Two years later, Bet mentions that she keeps in touch with Raquel who is still happily married and now also has a son.
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Lancashire initially had reservations about Raquel's characterisation, and believes that the writers were uncertain how to use her in early episodes. She found her two-dimensional, with an unappealing "acidic side" which could have resulted in Raquel becoming the "street bitch" had it been
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published an article about the top ten characters they wanted to return to soap. Raquel was featured and they described her as "the dizzy blonde barmaid and would-be model who married Curly Watts when she was on the rebound from Des Barnes."
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Diarmuid Doyle lauded the way Raquel overcame the blonde stereotype, "balancing her ditziness with real warmth and likeability and becoming one of the show's best-loved characters in the 1990s." Raquel had a celebrity fan in
948:"Real Lives: She refuses to be photographed out of character, and is always on her guard against those who would make Raquel a figure of fun. Joining Coronation Street really is like joining the Royal Family"
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Lucy Mangan noted that she is "still for many of us trailing clouds of the glorious Raquel
Wolstenhulme". In 2011, Raquel's wedding to Curly was placed eighteenth in
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