Karen Dodson

Karen Dodson was a woman who went on a date with Dev Alahan one night in March 2016. At the time, Dev and Erica Holroyd, although sharing a mutual attraction, were dancing around each other without admitting how they felt or committing to one another. Mary Taylor and Liz McDonald were trying to fix this state of affairs when Dev introduced Karen as a friend from Weatherfield Golf Club to Liz and Erica in the Corner Shop. She enthused over the premises, saying it was more a mini-mart than what Dev had described but then Karen (or "Kareen" as she insisted it was pronounced) made a faux-pas when she said that staff like Erica with all their "life-experience" were so much better than slack-jawed teenagers who hadn't a clue what they were doing. To add insult to injury, she implied that Liz was right to keep busy at her time of life in running somewhere like the Rovers.

They went into the pub where Liz and Erica had a plan and summoned Mary. She came along and almost instantly started exaggerating Dev's love-life to "Kareen", saying he had a turnstile instead of a bedroom door. Dev was at the bar and turned to see his date high-tailing it out of the pub, declaring that she wasn't a notch on anyone's bedpost. He was almost speechless at what Mary had done to him, until Erica appeared, dressed to the nines and planted a large kiss on his lips, - and then he really was speechless.