Coronation Street's Beth star celebrates 'first ever' after quitting ITV soap

Former Coronation Street histrion Lisa George, who played Beth Tinker, has excitedly shared an update with fans pursuing her exit from the ITV soap aft 13 years

Coronation Street prima Lisa George has excitedly celebrated a caller milestone aft exiting the ITV soap. The histrion portrayed Beth Tinker successful Corrie for 13 years, but her last scenes aired successful September aft she decided to discontinue her role.

Lisa, 51, revealed she's taken up a caller hobby pursuing her soap exit. She shared a photograph to her Instagram Stories showing her beaming for the camera portion successful a park, revealing she'd completed her archetypal ever Parkrun.

The histrion looked pleased with herself arsenic she posed make-up free, sporting a achromatic baggy T-shirt and her blonde locks tied back. Lisa told fans: "2 weeks training... First parkland tally ever!!! 5k."

Parkrun is simply a fashionable play lawsuit which runs astatine antithetic parks crossed the world, wherever runners tin implicit a 5 kilometre tally with others. The events instrumentality spot each Saturday greeting astatine 2,000 antithetic locations, with runners' capable to way their clip and progress.

Lisa's update comes aft her last Coronation Street scenes arsenic Beth aired. Viewers saw her permission spouse Kirk (Andy Whyment) devastated and confused, pursuing his proposal. Corrie fans cognize that Beth is being forced retired by corrupt bull Kit Green, who has told her he'll ruin lad Craig's vocation successful the constabulary unit unless they disappear. His threats travel aft her effort to bribe him with a video backfired, portion his effort to blackmail her proved successful.

In the storyline Kirk had conscionable projected to Beth for the 2nd time, having discovered years agone that she'd committed bigamy erstwhile she joined him the archetypal clip astir successful 2015. But mediocre Kirk had his bosom breached arsenic she pretended that she had to permission to instrumentality up a caller occupation astatine a mill successful Norwich.

Lisa has admitted she cried existent tears after filming the exit scenes. She said: "It was truthful hard. I was truly bittersweet filming it myself due to the fact that it was gorgeous, and you spot successful that country it was heartbreaking, due to the fact that it was everything that she wanted. It was awful. She broke his heart, and adjacent erstwhile she near helium was saying, 'I'll change, I'll alteration immoderate you want', believing it was his fault."

Lisa continued, adding: "I got a close lump successful my pharynx erstwhile we filmed it, due to the fact that it really felt truly existent erstwhile she said 'you know, you haven't done thing wrong. You don't request to change. You're ever cleanable to me'."