Coronation Street’s Evelyn Plummer - played by Maureen Lipman - is normally a highly caustic presence on the cobbles - she’s not known for her sweetness and warmth.
But on Friday’s episode of the ITV show Evelyn showed a more human side - to the shock of viewers. One of the soap’s post dramatic recent storylines involved her grandson Tyrone Dobbs and Alina Pop suffering a miscarriage after a dramatic fire.
The blaze was actually ignited by Tyrone’s daughter Hope - but no one except him and Hope’s mum Fiz knew. However, astute old Evelyn had her doubts about the incident.To the point she even managed to get Tyrone to admit he knew the truth about the fire.
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