Brenda Blethyn's Vera 'return' confirmed weeks after emotional ITV exit

ITV's Brenda Blethyn near fans heartbroken earlier this period erstwhile she bid farewell to Vera Stanhope

Just a fewer weeks aft her heartfelt departure from the fashionable drama, Brenda Blethyn is acceptable to thrill fans by returning to Vera for a peculiar lawsuit successful Newcastle.

Brenda, a BAFTA victor renowned for her stellar show successful Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies, archetypal graced our screens arsenic the formidable detective DCI Stanhope successful aboriginal 2011.

The aviator occurrence of Vera captivated millions, starring to a afloat bid that has been 1 of the biggest hits connected British TV for 14 years.

Even the Covid pandemic couldn't halt Vera's yearly quality connected our screens from 2011 to 2025, with its last episodes airing connected ITV earlier this month.

The 14th bid kicked disconnected with Inside connected New Year's Day, ending with the much-anticipated finale, The Dark Wives, conscionable 24 hours prior, drafting successful a monolithic audience.

Brenda kept mum astir the destiny of her celebrated quality until the precise end. The last country of Vera showed Brenda strolling contentedly on a beach, having packed up her belongings and near the constabulary office moments before.

In a property interrogation towards the extremity of past year, Brenda disclosed her determination to permission Vera aft 14 years.

She wanted to walk much clip with her household successful the south, aft spending each summertime since 2011 filming a caller bid hundreds of miles distant from them, reports Chronicle Live.

While Brenda's clip filming Vera appears to beryllium over, she hasn't wholly distanced herself from the show. As fans proceed to bask reruns connected ITV, they'll person the accidental to articulation the histrion astatine Newcastle City Hall connected Thursday, March 13, for an lawsuit titled 'Vera - End of an Era'.

This peculiar juncture volition spot Brenda and Vera writer Ann Cleeves sermon the last bid and bespeak connected their favourite scenes.

TV presenter Steph McGovern volition interrogation them connected stage, and they'll beryllium joined by immoderate peculiar guests. The evening is being promoted arsenic 'an unmissable chance' for fans to accidental a heartfelt goodbye to a beloved amusement and observe 1 of transgression fiction's astir iconic detectives.

Vera bid 14 of the detective play is inactive disposable to watercourse connected ITVX.