Strictly Come Dancing's Arlene Phillips to choreograph Corrie star's wedding dance

Former Strictly Come Dancing justice Arlene Phillips volition choregraph Maureen Lipman's wedding dance, pursuing the Corrie star's connection to David Turner implicit the summer

Strictly’s Arlene Phillips volition choreograph Maureen Lipman’s wedding creation – though she mightiness person to hold a fewer years to bash it…

Corrie prima Maureen, 78, popped the question to David Turner this summertime but the brace are “in nary hurry” to locomotion down the aisle.

“We haven’t got a day oregon a venue but we’re looking,” says Maureen. “The happening is, we are married, really. We’ll astir apt beryllium engaged for astir different 5 years – we’ll get joined successful hospital.”

Business advisor David joked they volition person to inquire guests to lend medicine medication. And pal Arlene, who has overseen galore a West End Stage number, adds: “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 america astatine the Oldie of the Year awards, wherever David admitted that his dancing skills aren’t up to much. “You haven’t got precise bully material,” helium chuckled, portion Maureen hinted that her Corrie co-star Rula Lenska could beryllium a bridesmaid.

Maureen, who plays Evelyn Plummer successful the ITV soap, mislaid her archetypal husband, writer Jack Rosenthal, successful 2004. Her spouse aft Jack, Guido Castro died of crab successful 2021.

Maureen, who got down connected 1 genu to inquire David to wed her connected a bid from Edinburgh, has antecedently said: “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.”

The mates volition person to commencement readying their wedding soon arsenic Maureen reckons David “has astir 9,000 rel­­atives”.

She added: “What’s important is that my two, and his three, grown-up kids are blessed astir it and they get on. 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.”

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