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.
‘We are astounded by the fact you can have a love affair at this age’ she said.
‘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.
‘David and I are thinking of having a bit of a gap year.’
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