Coronation Street's Maureen Lipman reveals wedding dance to be choreographed by Strictly icon

Coronation Street prima Maureen Lipman has revealed the peculiar relation Strictly Come Dancing fable Arlene Phillips volition play astatine her wedding

Strictly’s Arlene Phillips volition choreograph the wedding creation for Corrie’s Maureen Lipman - though she mightiness person to hold 5 years for their performance...

Maureen, 78, popped the question to her fiance David Turner implicit the summer, and contempt their the brace are “in nary hurry” to locomotion down the aisle. “I haven’t got a day oregon a venue but we’re looking,” says Maureen. “The happening is, we are married, really. I inactive can’t judge this is going to happen. We’ll astir apt beryllium engaged for astir different 5 years - we’ll get joined successful hospital.”

Business advisor David jokes they volition inquire guests to lend medicine medication, laughing: “The wedding database is going to beryllium successful John Bell & Croyden.”

Arlene, who has overseen galore a West End Stage number, piped successful with: “I’m staging the choreography for the wedding dance. “We’ll make for you truthful you don’t person to stomp - it volition beryllium different, nary mean ball.”

The trio spoke to the Sunday Mirror astatine the Oldie of the Year awards, wherever David quipped to Arlene that his dancing skills weren’t up to overmuch conscionable yet.

“You haven’t got precise bully material,” helium laughed, portion Maureen suggested she would see her co-star Rula Lenska would service arsenic a bridesmaid.

Maureen, who plays Evelyn Plummer successful the Weatherfield soap, and Beattie from BT’s TV ads successful the 80s, mislaid hubby Guido Castro to crab successful 2021. Her erstwhile husband, writer Jack Rosenthal, died successful 2004. She has antecedently said: “I wasn’t truly looking for a caller relationship.”

However, the brace fell successful love, and Maureen got down connected 1 genu connected a bid from Edinburgh. She has antecedently laughed: “I prop­osed arsenic a gag arsenic I’d been alternatively against the ‘M’ word. I ne'er truly expected him to accidental yes, but to my astonishment and flimsy panic, helium said it.”

They volition person to commencement readying the nuptials soon, arsenic Maureen has groaned that David “has astir 9,000 rel­­atives”.

“What’s important is that my two, and his three, grown-up kids are blessed astir it and they get on,” she said. “I can’t judge I’m marrying again. I’m precise fortunate to person had 3 exceptional men successful my life. We’re enjoying this unexpected Indian summertime of precocious emotion together.”

She has described of their meeting: “I wrote successful my diary afterwards: ‘He turned up connected clip successful a bully cleanable car and we had a bully locomotion and went for a pub lunch. Yes, he’s precise interesting.’
"We’ve spent an atrocious batch of clip since saying, ‘How did this happen?’"

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