Jessie Robins (5th June 1905 - 10th August 1991) appeared on Coronation Street in October 1969 as Mrs Dobbs, a fat woman who rowed with Dot Greenhalgh when she tried on a dress that was too small for her and later attended a meeting of the slimming club "Fatties Anonymous". In 1965 she recorded a Christmas Special of spin-off Pardon the Expression that in the event was never transmitted.