She’s currently playing Coronation Street battleaxe Evelyn Plummer, but it seems as if legendary actress – and new Dame – Maureen Lipman shares more than a little of her character’s no-nonsense, shoot-from-the-hip attitude.
Over the years she’s turned down several invitations to appear in a variety of reality television shows, including the nation’s favourite, Strictly Come Dancing.
And her reason? She just couldn’t trust herself to be civil if the judges were less than complimentary about her efforts. Maureen explained: “I don’t like being criticised, especially when I’ve tried.
I would love to do the dancing and it’s very watchable, but I know I’d lose my rag. “I know Craig Revel Horwood, he’s a dear man, but if he told me I hadn’t got
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