Doreen Heavey (née Outhwaite) was a former beautician and the mother of Maxine Peacock. Her husband was truck driver Derek Heavey, although the marriage was not always a happy one. She left him in 2002 and moved in with her daughter and her husband Ashley in their home at 4 Coronation Street. Brassy Doreen had a brief relationship with Mike Baldwin in 2002, and drunkenly became engaged to Fred Elliott, before being reconciled with Derek the following year.