Edward Jeremy Timothy "Eddie" Yeats is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, played by Geoffrey Hughes.

In adulthood, Eddie had low-paid jobs and made extra cash by helping out disreputable friends with carrying out burglaries and selling stolen goods.

When he was released, Eddie visited Jed's former landlady Minnie Caldwell (Margot Bryant) in Coronation Street, hoping she would give him a room before he had to go back to Walton.

His friend, Nobby Harris (Donald Webster), asked for his help to rob a supermarket but Eddie chose to stay clean and pursue barmaid Bet Lynch (Julie Goodyear), but during a date, the police arrived to escort him back to prison.

He tried to fix a date with Bet again but settled for friendship when he stopped her from taking an aspirin overdose when she found out her son, Martin Downes (Louis Selwyn), that had been adopted, was dead.

Eddie went into partnership with Stan Ogden (Bernard Youens) in his window cleaning business and lodged with Minnie at Number 5 and later with builder Len Fairclough (Peter Adamson) at Number 9, but in September 1975 he hid a suitcase containing the proceeds of a burglary carried out by his friend Monkey Gibbons (Arthur Kelly) in Minnie's house, where it was found by the police.

No one was happy to see him, but he found lodgings at Number 13 for a few weeks when he got special wallpaper for Hilda Ogden's (Jean Alexander) mural and helped her decorate.

Eddie built a playground at the back of the Community Centre for the local children, helping out Ken Barlow (William Roache).

In 1980, now nearly 40 years old, Eddie was keen to settle down and marry, firstly dating Lorna Ferguson (Annie Hulley) then Pat Marshall (Barbara Pierson).

On one shift, Eddie discovered a half-full can of hair dye in the Rovers' bins, belonging to landlady Annie Walker and returned it to her, believing she had discarded it by accident.

Eddie told Annie that his men were boycotting the Rovers, making him unpopular as the smell permeated the pub.

In 1982 Eddie met Marion Willis (Veronica Doran) after talking to her on CB radio, calling himself "Slim Jim".

After reconciling with Marion, Eddie intended to raise money to buy a house and invested £1,000 in Geoff Siddall's (Edward Judd) car business.

The Yeatses returned from their honeymoon to the news that Winifred had had a stroke and was seriously ill. Eddie was thinking about buying a new house, but Marion persuaded him to move to Bury so that she could give her mother full-time care.