Rita Tanner (née Littlewood, previously Fairclough and Sullivan) is a long-standing Coronation Street resident and the former owner/co-owner of newsagents The Kabin. She is also the estranged wife of Dennis Tanner. Rita married for a second time in 1992 to Ted Sullivan, although he died from a brain tumour only three months after they were married. Rita has been engaged twice without becoming married: firstly to former manager Alec Gilroy and secondly to Colin Grimshaw. In 2012, she married for the third time to Dennis Tanner on 4th June. She had known Dennis on and off throughout her life.