Joanie Dingle

Joanie Wright is the adoptive grandmother of Amy Wyatt and Cain Dingle's son Kyle.

Joanie's daughter Karen Winchester and her husband Tom adopted Kyle but they died in August 2013 leaving Joanie to raise Kyle herself. Amy attended Karen and Tom's funeral and at the wake she saw Joanie and Kyle and befriended her claiminvg to be an old friend. Amy begins babysitting Kyle regularly but it stops when Amy's foster father Eric Pollard visits Joanie and lets slip that Amy is Kyle's biological mother. Joanie bars Amy from seeing Kyle. In November Amy sets off the fire alarm of a community centre where Joanie and Kyle attend a mother and toddler group and takes Kyle in the confusion. She intends to board a ferry to Ireland but Cain stops Amy at the docks and takes Kyle back to Joanie.