Joe Hibbert was Renee Bradshaw's stepfather and a guest at Renee and Alf Roberts's wedding in March 1978. Always smoking or drinking (or complaining if he wasn't), Joe maintained a coarse, offensive attitude before and after the service. He arrived at the Corner Shop with wife Daisy before the wedding to greet Renee and bridesmaid Bet Lynch. While Mother and daughter greeted each other with a hug, Renee only granted Joe a polite hello; they weren't close and Renee only tolerated Joe for her mother's sake. Within a few minutes of arriving at the shop, Joe had derided the shop as outdated, tried to flirt with Bet, and criticised Alf's job at the GPO (despite being out of work at the time himself and relying on Daisy to keep him). Daisy joked that she was used to his behaviour; he was so drun