Sandra Arden

Victoria Frances "Vicky" McDonald (née Arden) was played by Helen Warburton in 1990 and Chloe Newsome

Chloe Newsome

Chloe Newsome is an English actress who is best known for playing the role of Vicky McDonald in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street.-Career:...

 from 1991–1998. She is Alec Gilroy

Alec Gilroy

Alexander "Alec" Gilroy is a fictional character from the British soap opera Coronation Street, played by Roy Barraclough. The character made several appearances in the show as a small-time talent agent, the first in 1972, and later as a series regular from 1986 to 1992. He reappeared briefly in...

's granddaughter and the first wife of Steve McDonald.
Vicky arrives in Coronation Street when her parents Tim and Sandra Arden die in a car crash. Her grandfather Alec and his wife Bet

Bet Lynch

Elizabeth Theresa "Bet" Lynch is a fictional character from the UK television ITV soap opera, Coronation Street. The character is no longer part of current storylines. Portrayed by actress Julie Goodyear the character first appears onscreen during the episode airing on 23 May 1966. The character...

 become her legal guardians.

Vicky goes to a private boarding school and owns a horse called Saracen, so holidays in a back street pub are not an attractive option. However, when she meets Steve McDonald, it is some compensation. Alec desperately tries to separate the couple, but fails. She resisted his sexual advances for a short time until finally she loses her virginity to him. This is unimportant to him, and he two-times Vicky with nurse Alison Rathbone. They then both dump him.

After Alec leaves Bet to go and work in Southampton, Vicky continues to return to the Rovers and treats Bet as her grandmother. On reaching her 18th birthday, Vicky inherits £240,000 that has been left by her parents. To Bet's distress, Vicky immediately abandons her studies and decides the money would be better than her schooling.

She visits Alec for a while to explain her decision to him. When she returns she is keen to confide in old flame Steve, but he is seeing hairdresser Fiona Middleton, and Vicky is left out in the cold. She finds a way back into his life when she invests £1,500 into his T-shirt company. However, she loses her money when an order for Costello's nightclub falls through when the place goes bust without paying the bill.

Instead of putting her off, this inspires her to enroll on a business studies course at the local technical college and she becomes Steve's business partner, insisting that she has control of the finances - which annoys Fiona. She is even more annoyed when Vicky flys to Dublin with Steve for a 'business' weekend. Fiona dumps him, leaving the way clear for Vicky to walk into his arms. She seduces him easily, and she announces their engagement at Steve's 21st birthday party in 1995 - shocking everybody and incensing Bet. Alec returns for a spell to convince Vicky to end the relationship but it is to no avail. Alec even offers Steve £5,000 not to marry Vicky.

Eventually, the pair go to St Lucia to get married - Bet gives her blessing as she knows that Vicky is happy. After their marriage, Vicky and Steve have a long honeymoon holidaying in the Caribbean and the United States. When they return they turn their attention to the business, which needs another injection of capital - again provided by Vicky's inheritance.

Their relationship is failing as Steve is dwindling Vicky's money away and the final straw comes when he is arrested on Christmas Day for buying stolen whisky. He is guilty but had encouraged Vicky to bribe Malcolm Fox for £5,000. Steve had bought the whisky from Malcolm and the bribe was for him to say that Steve did not know that the whisky was stolen.

Steve is freed and the pair had presumed that they were safe. However, the police discover the bribery when Malcom Fox's wife confesses. Vicky and Steve are arrested and the trial begins. Steve maintains that the bribe was Vicky's idea. Vicky says that Steve had convinced her to do it. Subsequently, Steve is sentenced to 2 years in prison and Vicky is given a 1 year suspended sentence. She decides to get on with her life without Steve and enrolls herself in a hotel management course in an exclusive college in Switzerland. She leaves in June 1996, and soon afterwards serves Steve divorce papers in prison.

Vicky comes back to the Street at Christmas time 1998 with a bang. She accidentally hits Steve's car as she parks her car outside the Rovers while visiting Alec. Vicky has blossomed into a lovely young woman, a far cry from the spoilt, impressionable teen that came to the Rovers many years before. She has just bought a wine bar in Brighton, and has come back asking advice from her grandfather. Alec is having problems with the Duckworths, who are now licencees at the pub, and is getting very despondant with the Rovers. Vicky persuades him to go into partnership with her, and with Alec selling the Rovers to Natalie Barnes

Natalie Barnes

Natalie Felicity Barnes is played by Denise Welch. She appears from 26 February 1997 until 31 December 2000.-1997–2000:...

, they both leave Coronation Street together with hopes of a great future.

In November 1999, Steve and his friend Vikram Desai are heading to Calais to buy cigarettes and alcohol. Vikram discovers they are going via Brighton to see Vicky. On arrival at "Vicky's" - the wine bar she owns - Steve discovers she is about to re-marry. He plans to rekindle his relationship with her so he can get his hands on her money and business, betting Vikram £100 he can stop the wedding. It transpires that Vicky's bar is actually in financial ruin as she asks Bet for a loan, which she refuses to give her. Steve successfully seduces Vicky.

After her night of passion with Steve, Vicky tells him she cannot marry her fiance Robert. She also tells him she is broke and the wine bar is losing money. He promises to pick her up later and return to Weatherfield. Steve and Vikram set off back up North with no intention of picking up Vicky. She realises she has been stood up. Bet takes her back to the bar, and Vicky realises she does want to marry Robert after all.

Jackie Ingram

Jaqueline Rachel "Jackie" Ingram (previously Baldwin) was Peter Ingram's widow who fell for Mike Baldwin's charms and became his second wife. The marriage lasted a week before Jackie discovered he had been only after her money and had used some of it to help out his girlfriend, Alma Sedgewick. She threatened Mike with her shotgun before leaving him. Mike was given a tidy sum of money as a pay-off for a quick divorce.

Angie Freeman

Angie Freeman moved into 7 Coronation Street to share with Jenny Bradley, into the room vacated by Flick and Joanne Khan. She was a free-spirited student studying Design at University and a woman who knew her own mind. In March 1991, Curly Watts moved in and they quickly became very close - but more as brother and sister than lovers, until one night when they had too much red wine and ended up in bed together. Both regretted it the next morning, but Curly always hoped that their relationship might develop into something more than mutual.
After graduating, Angie was short of work, and worked unhappily for Mike Baldwin, and more happily for Hanif Ruparell. She found another soulmate in Des Barnes, but went on to have a rather confused and painful romance with Neil Mitchell.

When she left Weatherfield for Mexico in March 1993 to study Aztec design, she left behind a few broken hearts.

In December 1996, she called back on Weatherfield as a designer for Kbec - much to the annoyance of her former boss, Mike Baldwin, but Kbec troubles meant that by the following March they were both no longer in Kbec's employ. Angie returned to Weatherfield, and rented Des Barnes' house whilst he was on his canal barge, with the intention of setting up her own business.