Chesney Battersby-Brown

Infobox soap character
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series = Coronation Street
name = Chesney Battersby-Brown

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caption = Chesney Battersby-Brown in 2007
first = 14 November 2003
residence = 5 Coronation Street
romances = Kayleigh Morton
born = 24 July 1994
parents = Cilla Battersby-Brown
Les Battersby-Brown (adoptive)
siblings = Billy Brown
Fiz Brown
occupation = Student
creator = Chris Parker
portrayer = Sam Aston

Chesney Battersby-Brown (née Brown) is a character in the British television soap opera "Coronation Street". He is played by Sam Aston.

Chesney was created by Chris Parker, a member of the "Coronation Street" writing team from 2002 to 2005. The writer is reported to have named him after Chesney Hawkes, the one-hit-wonder pop star whose fame peaked at the time of the fictional character's birth.Fact|date=March 2008

torylines

Chesney first appeared in Coronation Street in 2003. Les Battersby-Brown took him in.

In 2004 his mother, Cilla Battersby-Brown, used Chesney as a decoy in a scam to sue Rita Sullivan for actual bodily harm in a bid to get money off her. Rita was prosecuted and jailed briefly, but the compensation money was relatively small, much to Cilla's fury.

Chesney attempted to run away after his mum left without him but Les took him back in. He was given a pure breed Great Dane dog, Schmeichel, named after Danish footballer Peter Schmeichel, by Maya Sharma. He also made friends with Sophie Webster.

In 2005, he conned several residents at Easter into giving him chocolate eggs. That August, Schmeichel was run over by a bus driven by Claire Peacock, leaving Chesney devastated, but his companion pulled through. He walked in on Sally Webster whilst she was in the shower. Chesney sought revenge on Les, after Les told everyone about him seeing Sally in the shower, which threatened his friendship with Sophie. Nevertheless, Chesney and Sophie are still close friends.

In September 2006, Fiz and Kirk bought Chesney a second-hand computer and Roy Cropper taught him all about internet auctioning. Typically, Cilla took over, selling anything and everything just to get some easy money.

Chesney has been put in care many times, but Social Services have been involved when Les adopted Chesney in 2006, and on 10 March 2008 when they took Chesney to a foster home as Kirk Sutherland could not take care of him properly. Claire later revealed that she reported them to the Social Services, in Chesney's best interests. Chesney was later allowed to return home after Fiz agreed to move into Number 5 much to her reluctance due to her ex boyfriend Kirk living there.

In July 2008, Chesney was dismayed to see the return of Fiz's ex John Stape who cheated on her with Rosie Webster. John bought Chesney a bike for his birthday which he rejected when he found out who it had came from. In a fit of rage Chesney also broke the wing mirror on John's taxi.

Chesney has fought hard to begin a relationship with Kayleigh Morton, in which she has responded to, much to Chesney's delight. When Chesney returned after vacating to visit Cilla in Las Vegas, he was catching up with Kayleigh when her lover Kenzie Judd saw them together, leaving Chesney with a bleeding nose, but fortunately, John saw and broke up the fight. However, instead of being grateful to John for saving him, he told Fiz that John had hit him. Fiz then found John and attacked him for "hitting" Chesney, before going to ask Kayleigh what really had happened, Fiz then went and made up with John but told Chesney that she was angry with him for lying to her but also told him that she wasn't a fool and John would not be given a second chance, although they later reconcilated, but soon split up again.

External links

* [http://www.itv.com/Soaps/coronationstreet/castandcharacters/atoe/ChesneyBattersbyBrown1.html Profile of Chesney Battersby Brown] at ITV soaps
* [http://www.whatsontv.co.uk/soaps/coronation_street/whos_who/chesney_battersby_brown Profile of Chesney Battersby-Brown] at What's on TV