Samantha (Episode 7263)

Samantha was a barmaid at The Flying Horse and was working behind the bar when Steve McDonald got drunk there one evening following a fallout with wife Becky in January 2010.

Intent on calling the woman "Vicky", the barmaid kept correcting Steve and told him that Vicky had left the establishment on the previous Tuesday. After losing money on the pub's fruit machine and scaring another customer's dog with his dancing, Steve then went onto pester Craig Brakewell and his friend Nobby - commenting on a football headline in the local paper.

Boasting that he was the owner of the Rovers, Steve soon left their table when it was established that Craig used to be employed with Newton & Ridley and it was common knowledge that a drayman had been "seeing" Steve's mum. The pair also swiftly declined an offer of going to a club in town with him.

Steve staggered back to the bar and asked Samantha if she would like to accompany him to the club instead - just as a friend - but the barmaid simply shook her head in dismay and served him another pint of lager.


 * Credited as "Barmaid", the character's Christian name was given in dialogue.