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Maureen Lipman confirms she’s staying at Coronation Street after saying show needs to go back to its roots

Coronation Street star Maureen Lipman has said she'll stick with the show despite believing it needs to go back to its roots.

Maureen Lipman has confirmed she plans to stay at Coronation Street for “a bit longer”despite saying she preferred the storylines in Classic episodes of the soap. She also insisted that she felt “lucky” with her character, Evelyn Plummer – and wouldn’t allow bosses to make her nice! Maureen is a fan of old school characters like Minnie, Ena and Martha (Credit: ITV/Shutterstock) The actress also spoke about the early days of Coronation Street and how her late husband Jack Rosenthal had been a writer on the soap.

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