Maureen Lipman has confirmed she plans to stay at Coronation Street for “a bit longer”despite saying she preferred the storylines in Classic episodes of the soap.
She also insisted that she felt “lucky” with her character, Evelyn Plummer – and wouldn’t allow bosses to make her nice!
Maureen Lipman (pictured with Corrie co-star Colson Smith) has addressed her role on the soap (Credit: Cover Images)
Maureen Lipman on Coronation Street future
The actress has starred as Evelyn Plummer in Corrie since 2018. She has also taken several breaks to appear on stage.
In an interview with Beyond the Title podcast, Maureen confirmed her future on the show. She told host Josh Barry she was planning to stay on Coronation Street.
“It’s a good enough job,” she revealed. “It’s a little hard. There’s good and there’s bad. It’s a nice group of people, it’s nice being up north and I’ll stick around for a bit longer.”
So also said she would not stand for any snobbery over being on a soap and that she felt “lucky” to be playing Evelyn.
“I don’t subscribe to the kind of ‘oh you’re in a soap are you’,” Maureen said. I’m very lucky to have a great character. An old school character. She’s not particularly nice, they keep trying to make her nicer and I keep resisting.”
Maureen is a fan of old school characters like Minnie, Ena and Martha (Credit: ITV/Shutterstock)
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