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Coronation Street star announces she's engaged - after proposing to boyfriend herself


She proposed on a train, partially as a joke, but said be readily agreed to her "surprise and panic"...

Coronation Street royalty Maureen Lipman has revealed she is engaged - after getting down on one knee and proposing to her partner David Turner on a long train journey. She wrote: "I had been rather against the ‘M’ word, but on a train coming back from Edinburgh he mentioned that it was the minor festival of Tu B’Av – a day when a Jewish woman can ask a man to marry her." Maureen Lipman and David Turner are engaged after she proposed (Image: REX/Shutterstock)She continued: "Unable to resist the gag, I slid under the table separating us on to one knee and asked him for his hand.

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