List of Coronation Street Characters (1999) - Candice Stowe

Candice Marie Islandos (Née Stowe) was played by Nikki Sanderson.

Candice first appeared in 1999 as Sarah-Louise Platt's best friend from school. She attempted to get Sarah to smoke. She and Sarah were both thirteen at the time. Candice was one of the first people Sarah told of her pregnancy. While many of Sarah's friends turned against Sarah, Candice stuck by her throughout the pregnancy and birth of her daughter Bethany in 2000. Candice proved to be a good friend in times of crisis during Sarah's life, for example she and Todd Grimshaw were instrumental in Sarah being able to evade the clutches of her paedophile kidnapper Gary in July 2001. As they grew up Candice, Sarah and their friend Maria Sutherland began to turn the heads of The Street's men and became increasingly popular with male viewers of the show.

Candice does not get along with her mother and currently has no contact with her. Their relationship broke down when Candice's mother would not believe that she was being sexually harassed by her mother's boyfriend. Audrey Roberts soon took pity on her and she moved into the salon flat with Maria and Fiz Brown. Candice has a bitchy personality and high ambitions to be famous, despite working as a trainee hairdresser in Audrey's salon. She went for a catwalk modelling job which proved to be a humiliating disaster for her. She did however have a softer side and she was known to cry on several occasions.

During her time on the show, Candice dated Todd Grimshaw, his brother Jason and Warren Baldwin. Todd broke up with her after discovering that she had slept with Jason. She also had an extremely brief fling with Nick Tilsley who dumped her for Maria. Another disastrous fling beckoned when she dated Tim, a travelling shampoo rep whom she soon discovered was married. When promising footballer Warren Baldwin arrived in Weatherfield with his family in the summer of 2004 she dreamed of fame and soon got together with him. Unfortunately for her, he ended their relationship when he left to play for a Spanish team. Candice also dated Adam Barlow, Warren's Uncle but later dumped him via text message as she left the series in late 2005 when Status Quo offered her a job as a stylist. Unlike best friend Sarah Platt, she was never really involved in central storylines.

On 26 March 2007, Sarah revealed that Candice had become engaged in Greece and asked her to be her bridesmaid. Sarah then went over to attend the wedding. Candice currently works for a company that sells speed boats.