Legendary Coronation Street actress Beverley Callard is swapping the cobbles for the stage later this year.
The actress, 67, played Liz McDonald sporadically for over thirty years, first joining the show alongside her on-screen family in 1989.
Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, she had somewhat of a muted exit storyline and was last seen on our screens in 2020. Some months later, son Steve (Simon Gregson) revealed that she’d gone to live with his twin Andy (Nicholas Cochrane) in Spain.
Following that she appeared in 20th series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here, the first series to come from Gwrych Castle in North Wales. She was the third to be eliminated.
Beverley has also had roles as a fictional version of herself in mockumentary Meet the Richardsons, and most recently played a psychic in BBC Two sitcom Mandy.
Earlier this week, she was announced to be starring in the Rhyl Pavilion production of Cinderella at the end of the year.
She’s been perfectly cast as the Wicked Stepmother, a role she fulfilled on the ITV soap to Steve’s multiple wives over the years.
Sugababes singer Amelia Berrabah will play the Fairy Godmother, with Britain’s Got Talent stars Jamie and Chuck also appearing.
She also recently expressed an interest in joining another soap – after one fan compared her to EastEnders’ Angie Watts (Anita Dobson).
After Beverley posted new headshots to her X feed, the fan chirped: ‘These are to submit to the BBC so they can introduce you in EastEnders as Angie Watts long lost sister, right?’
She was quick to reply: ‘Yes!! I’d do it.’
This wouldn’t be the first time that she’d acted on the BBC soap’s set in Elstree, Hertfordshire. In November 2010, she took part in a charity sketch for Children in Need that saw the Coronation Street characters meet EastEnders counterparts after the towns of Weatherfield and Walford were twinned.
Finding herself at home behind the bar of The Queen Vic, Liz served Jason Grimshaw (Ryan Thomas) when Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace) couldn’t understand his Northern twang.
Later, Kat demanded to know where she had acquired a bespoke, handmade bracelet from, citing that she received an identical one from her birth mother before being placed for adoption.
The two women had an argument, before Kat echoed an earlier EastEnders scene where she was revealed as Zoe Slater’s (Michelle Ryan) mum.
Screaming out ‘You ain’t my mother!’, Liz replied: ‘Oh yes I am!’
Truly iconic.
