Coronation Street icon, 78, is engaged after proposing to partner

Coronation Street’s Dame Maureen Lipman is engaged to beryllium married.

The seasoned actress, 78, has played the portion of Tyrone Dobbs’ (Alan Halsall) grandma Evelyn Plummer successful the ITV soap since 2018.

And the soap prima revealed that she archetypal asked David Turner for his manus connected a bid arsenic a gag – and Mr Turner, besides 78, said yes. 

Writing successful The Spectator, she said: ‘In information I had been alternatively against the ‘M’ word, but connected a bid coming backmost from Edinburgh, helium mentioned that it was the insignificant festival of Tu B’Av – a time erstwhile a Jewish pistillate tin inquire a antheral to wed her.

‘Unable to defy the gag, I slid nether the array separating us, onto 1 knee, and asked him for his hand. To my astonishment and flimsy panic, helium gave it.’

During her clip arsenic the show’s nonmigratory harridan, we’ve seen Evelyn reconnect with her estranged grandson and force her mode into his household location astatine No. 9 Coronation Street and signifier a compelling relationship with Roy Cropper (David Neilson).

Corrie fans volition person to accidental goodbye to Evelyn aboriginal this twelvemonth as TV legend Dame Maureen is acceptable to permission the cobbles to instrumentality connected a caller role.

However, aboriginal this twelvemonth she’ll beryllium swapping the Rovers for the stage, arsenic she appears successful Richmond Theatre’s yearly pantomime.

Announcing the quality past month, the venue wrote connected Instagram: ‘We are truthful excited to denote that Dame Maureen Lipman volition prima arsenic Mrs Potty and Pete Firman volition play Silly Billy successful this year’s spellbinding pantomime Beauty and the Beast!’

The news, however, has sparked fears that Maureen could beryllium bowing retired of Weatherfield aft six years – but fearfulness not, she volition beryllium back!

When approached for comment, a spokesperson confirmed to Metro.co.uk: ‘Dame Maureen is taking a sabbatical from Coronation Street towards the extremity of the year. We look guardant to seeing her backmost connected the cobbles successful 2025.’

The accumulation volition instrumentality spot betwixt December 7th and January 5th, truthful it’s apt she’ll marque her departure for a fig of months.

Viewers volition callback that this isn’t the archetypal clip Maureen has taken an extended interruption – last twelvemonth she appeared successful ‘Rose’ successful London’s West End, and truthful Evelyn took girl Cassie disconnected to rehab to facilitate her absence.

Earlier this twelvemonth she took a swipe astatine Corrie’s acheronian storylines, and harked backmost to its formative years – a clip erstwhile galore scripts were penned by her precocious husband, prolific screenwriter Jack Rosenthal.

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