Over egging the point, I call shenanigans.
No, I genuinely don't know anything about either (ok.... The lesbian stuff in brookside I suppose). I once served a man with a moustache in a bar I was working with for an entire evening. Apparently he was in brookside, but I didn't realise.
Coronation street starts and ends with Hilda Hogden and that one who wore a vest a lot....