Tony Gordon

Infobox soap character
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series = Coronation Street
name = Tony Gordon


caption = Duration = 2007 - 2009
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romances = Carla Connor (Deceased

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spouse = Lindsey Gordon (divorced)
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occupation = Sales/Main investor in Victoria Court.
Co-owner, Underworld.
portrayer = Gray O'Brien

Tony Gordon is a fictional character on the British soap opera "Coronation Street" played by Gray O'Brien who is known for having a glass left eye, making a first onscreen appearance on 16 September 2007. [ [http://www.itv.com/Soaps/coronationstreet/castandcharacters/ftol/TonyGordon/default.html Coronation Street | Cast & Characters | Tony Gordon - ITV Soaps ] ] [ [http://www.corrieblog.tv/2007/08/meet_carla_conn.html Corrieblog: Meet Carla Connor's new hunky fella ] ]

Background

The character runs a clothing firm and also owns a housing development, his firm gave a contract to Carla and Liam at Underworld. After a short while of doing business, Tony ultimately began a romantic relationship with Carla Connor, after she shared a kiss with her brother-in-law Liam Connor. Liam didn't like Tony's ways however, and makes a point quite often of letting him know this.

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It was revealed that Tony has an ex-wife that he kept secret, [ [http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article319873.ece Chardonnay to star in Corrie | The Sun |Showbiz|TV ] ] when she came into the factory looking for Carla before slapping her to the ground, she was portrayed by Ex-"Footballer's Wives" actress Susie Amy. [http://entertainment.aol.co.uk/ex-footballers-wife-joins-corrie.html] Lindsay had told Liam that Tony is a womaniser and a control freak who will chew Carla up and spit her out before returning to her. Liam tried to warn Carla but she didn't believe him, assuming that he was jealous of Tony. After a few weeks of dating Carla, he became more motivated to impress her. Tony having a lot of money, kept showering Carla with gifts and trips to expensive restaurants. After a while Carla began to pursue her love interest in Liam, unaware of Carla's intentions Tony carried on seeing her until she ended their relationship so she could prove to Liam she wanted to be with him even though nothing came of it. Tony continued seeing Carla at the factory to carry out his order. He later stole her keys to the flat, and let himself in to cook dinner. He eventually convinced Carla to get back with him. The actor who portrays Tony revealed that he is just very charming and confident, and see's breaking into his Ex's house as a bit of fun. [ [http://www.corrieblog.tv/2008/02/tony_gordon_mad.html Corrieblog: Tony Gordon - mad and disturbed? ] ]

After a few weeks he began to gradually move in with Carla, and attempted to buy Liam's share of the factory, but failed. Even though Carla was annoyed with him going behind her back. In March 2008, Tony announced to Carla that he was behind the new development on Victoria Street. On March 17th, 2008, he proposed to Carla at a dinner party in front of Steve, Michelle, Liam and Maria. Carla, overcoming the initial shock and embarrassment, eventually accepted his proposal. [ [http://www.corrieblog.tv/2008/03/gray_obrien_on.html Corrieblog: Gray O'Brien on Tony's shock proposal ] ] He later suggested that the couple move into one of his new luxary flats when the have been completed. Noise and disruptions from the work on the flats garnered complaints from street residents including Blanche Hunt and Ken Barlow, and also from Steve, especially when his daughter was Amy was nearly hit by a truck. Tony promised to speak to the site foreman and even Liam admitted he had started to take a liking to Tony. Tony now owns Liam's 40% of the factory after Carla blackmailed Liam into selling his share to Tony. Carla soon finds out that Tom Kerrigan, her widow's cousin is taking over Tony's share following Liam's departure in October 2008.

In April 2008, Roy Cropper found bat droppings on the new building site and requested Tony halt work because he didn't want the builders to work with a bat colony present. Instead, Tony ordered a relucant Jason Grimshaw to smoke out the bat colony and destroy any evidence of bats being on the site. Roy guessed what had happened, and along with Becky, Ken and to a lesser extent, Ashley, began a campaign against the work on the building site. Examples of Roy's non-violent protest included barring builders from the café and parking Hayley's car in the way at the site to cause obstruction. To settle the protest Tony donated £10,000 to a bat charity, though this did not satisfy Roy one little bit on principle.

Tony has recently bought Liam's 40% of the factory and is now looking for more businesses to expand his empire. Since the purchase, certain members of the street began to see a different side to Tony Gordon. He approached Rita and Norris to buy the Kabin to expand "Underworld", Rita accepting in theory as a retirement plan. He then approached Kevin Webster at the garage where he was met with a definite refusal. After the refusal a second time, Tony sacked a latecoming Sean Tully at the factory.

Tony then invested in Jimmy Dockerson, a new weapon in trying to get Kevin to sell the garage and also began to manipulate Rosie, Kevin's daughter who works at Underworld, to steal information that Tony needs to claim the garage from Kevin. Rosie also persuaded Tony to give Sean his job back.

In August 2008, Tony began confronting elderly resident Mr. Stone into moving out of his home which he claims to have lived in for 40 years and soon caused him to suffer a Heart Attack. Tony threatened him in hospital. He was also accused by Kevin for stealing his tow truck whilst Kevin was helping a woman but Tony's intentions are not yet known.

After, a scantily clad Rosie attempted to seduce Tony in September 2008, he quickly rejected her advances. Furious at being rejected, Rosie showed him the video footage on her mobile phone of Liam and Carla in a passionate embrace. He threatened Rosie to keep quiet about it, telling her to continue working at Underworld as usual. Tony then discovered, through Carla's bank documents, that she had invested in Liam and Tom's business venture Lad Rags, another secret which she had kept from him. That night Tony spotted Carla and Liam kissing, which he took as further evidence of a liaison between the pair.

Tony has a dislike for football club Rangers. In one episode he says "I could no more fancy Rosie Webster than I could support Glasgow Rangers", which suggests he supports Celtic and has a Catholic background. [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BRVkIO1taGo] Supporters of Rangers took great offence to this remark and flooded the ITV switchboard with calls of protest as they thought the remark was a retaliation for the 2008 UEFA Cup Final Riots involving Rangers fans. [http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/10/04/exclusive-coronation-st-bosses-drop-anti-rangers-jibe-from-script-86908-20771780/]

It has been confirmed that Tony will be a suspect in the murder Liam Connor.it was revealed that tony will kill liam with 3 different brutal murders being filmed, and only 1 being televised. The 3 deaths are as followed:

*Shot by a real gun at Tony's stag night paintballing match
*Pushed from a high balcony at one of Tony's Victoria Street Flats, also on Tony's stag night
*And finally ran over by an unidentified car driven by Tony on his stag night, if this death is televised, Liam will die in Tony's arms.

Murder and Exit ( 2008 - 2009)

Tony will have comitted two murders before his departure.He murders Liam Connor on his stag night, which leads to his wedding being postponed. Then on his wedding night his new wife Carla Connor discovers that Tony murdered Liam, and Tony realises he has to silence her ....

[ [http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/a112039/corrie-star-obrien-suffers-hip-problems.html Soaps - News - Corrie star O'Brien suffers hip problems - Digital Spy ] ]

References

External links

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