The character was portrayed in the 2010 fiftieth anniversary drama by Michelle Holmes and credited as just "Brenda" though a commentator on The Guardian's website stated that she had been a girlfriend of his (and supplied her surname) but recorded that she had been neither "blonde nor brassy". In the drama she is portrayed as being protective of her boss's time but later on to be supportive of Tony Warren in his drive to succeed in getting Coronation Street to the airwaves.