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Coronation Street star Maureen Lipman to ‘exit’ soap as Evelyn Plummer after seven years

Coronation Street favourite Maureen Lipman has revealed she’s taking a step back from the ITV soap, playing Evelyn Plummer

And according to Maureen, she is now taking a step back from Coronation Street to have a “bit of a gap year,” with her new beau. As for how she is set to depart the cobbles, Maureen revealed that her exit storyline is down to Evelyn heading off to university to study law, after being prompted by Roy Cropper. “In truth 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,” she wrote.

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