Mrs Grumble has taken to her bed after another blow on the Coronation Street front.
She became seriously depressed at news of the TVNZ tossers planning to switch the soap’s screening time.
But now one of her favourite characters – or rather, the actor who plays him – has fallen foul of the law.
A teenager has accused Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell of raping her when she was six years old.
Mr Le Vell, 46, who has played mechanic Kevin Webster in the soap for 28 years, has reportedly been left reeling from the accusations.
He is currently out on bail until November 16 on the condition he does not approach the girl after being arrested on September 30.
Alf is apt to be suspicious of blokes with surnames like Le Vell, but Mrs Grumble makes the favourable observation that this feller married his childhood sweetheart – she is Janette Beverley, 45, an actress who starred in a British TV show in the 1990s