Coronation Street’s Maureen Lipman addresses exit and future on soap
Coronation Street’s Maureen Lipman addresses exit and future on soap
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Coronation Street star Dame Maureen Lipman is to take a step back from her Evelyn Plummer role to take a ‘gap year’. The actress, 78, has been a regular cast member in the ITV soap but will only appear on a recurring basis moving forward. She recently discussed her engagement to partner David Turner – who she proposed to on a train – on Lorraine Kelly’s self-titled daytime show.
![[Maureen Lipman and partner David Turner]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SEI_220287942-99bf-e1726761642319.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
‘We are astounded by the fact you can have a love affair at this age’ she said. ‘We sort of talked about marriage but in a kind of way. We were coming back on a train from Edinburgh and he is very learned about the Jewish faith and he said “it’s Tu B’Av”, it’s a day where a woman can ask a man to marry them.
![[Roy and Evelyn are harassed in the street by a woman pretending to be Lauren's mum in Coronation Street]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SEI_197379906-cb7b.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
‘It was just for gag really. I slipped under the table and he asked what doing and I said “Will you marry me?”‘. Her exit story – which has already began – sees her leave for a university law course, prompted by best pal Roy Cropper (David Neilson).
![[Cassie and Evelyn Plummer in Coronation Street]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/SEI_230511881-5ee8.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
‘Roy sees potential in Evelyn, he sees that she’s more than just a pretty face’ Maureen revealed. ‘But he’s sort of the architect of what happens to me over the next few months. ‘The best thing that could happen is a series about Evelyn going to university. Can you imagine if all the students start dressing like Evelyn?’.
We reckon she’d look right at home with Adam and Dee-Dee in the law office!. She continued to The Sun: ‘I’ll be absent for a while, and then coming back. ‘I’m not going to die but then I’ll be in and out of it because I want to have a bit of a life.
