Tudor Parry-Jones (aka "The Voice from the Valleys") was a Welsh tenor who joined Alec Gilroy's talent agency in 1990. Tudor sought out Alec when a mutual acquaintance, Neville Thomas, heard him sing and told him that Alec was the only agent north of Stoke-on-Trent fit to handle a talent such as his. Well-dressed and armed with a bag full of newspaper cuttings, Tudor presented an unusual sight in the Rovers Return. Upon arriving, he handed a folder containing the cuttings to Bet Gilroy to take through to the back, where Alec was busy doing the books. Fearing that their mysterious guest was there to serve a writ on him, Alec breathed a sigh of relief upon reading what were only press reports of Tudor's previous singing engagements.