Elaine Pollard went out with a young Curly Watts in the summer of 1984. They were set up by Terry Duckworth as she'd tagged along with her friends Gill Collins and Mandy Whitworth to blind dates with Terry and Kevin Webster and Terry thought she was just as weird as Curly so they'd be a perfect match. Curly enjoyed the date and was smitten with Elaine and wrote her a love poem. They met up again when Terry invited them to a party with Kevin, Gill and Mandy so that they could have it at 3 Coronation Street. Emily Bishop approved of what she thought would be a quiet evening in and put on a buffet for them but once she left the house it turned into a wild party.