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Coronation Street since 2018, and has opened up in a new interview about her "acid-tongued" character.The actress has admitted that due to "today's climate" she could not make the jokes her character Evelyn gets away with on the show, leaving her to "watch [herself] carefully".Maureen is known for speaking her mind, but has admitted in a recent interview that she finds it harder to speak out due to today's cancel culture.Relating to her character Evelyn, Maureen admitted: "You can’t make jokes that I would normally make."I am watching myself carefully.

Coronation Street legend Maureen Lipman has blasted the 'wokes' for trying to make everyone in the TV and film industry "an actor". The outspoken 76-year-old thinks it is wrong that women in her profession are now often referred to by the traditional male noun.Maureen - who has just signed a new contract to stay on the ITV soap as busybody Evelyn Plummer for another year - said: "I am an actress - not an actor.READ MORE: Corrie's Maureen Lipman branded 'harsh' on The One Show after rejecting script"And if somebody tries to take the word 'woman' away from me, I shall be very cross!""Yes, some of my views can be a little old-fashioned," continued the star, who has been appearing in films and on television since the 60s."But don't attack me for them.""Consider my point of view," she urged.

Piers Morgan has said he's put aside his feud with Harry Potter author JK Rowling to defend her amid the ongoing transgender row she's embroiled in.The TV personality, 56, branded the treatment of the author "an absolute disgrace" amid the backlash she is facing for airing her views on the on sex and gender publicly.Piers addressed the topic of the US transgender swimmer, Lia Thomas, who is set to become a "world-beating superstar" after having joined the women's team.He wrote that the swimmer previously competed unsuccessfully on the University of Pennsylvania men's team.Piers branded the move "grotesquely unfair" in a new column but added that anyone who criticises the move is immediately branded "transphobic".The star wrote that he "unequivocally" the rights of trans people to equality and fairness but added that Thomas had a "massive biological advantage" over her competitors.Piers went on to write that defenders of women's rights are frequently subjected to "the intolerant cancel culture mob", claiming that they try to "destroy careers and lives" for the cause.The former Life Stories host looked to the case of Rowling as an example who has received death threats over the matter on Twitter.Yesterday, the best-selling author hit back at Russian president Vladimir Putin, who compared the cancellation of the Harry Potter author to the sanctions placed upon Russia for invading Ukraine.In a speech, Putin said: "They cancelled Joanne Rowling recently, the children’s author, her books are published all over the world - just because she didn’t satisfy the demands of gender rights."They are now trying to cancel our country.

JK Rowling has responded to Vladimir Putin after seemingly referencing her during a speech condemning ‘cancel culture’ in the West.Likening the portrayal of Russia in the West to the backlash of the Harry Potter author, the president said Rowling had been cancelled ‘because she did not satisfy the demands of gender rights’ He made the comments during a televised meeting with Russian cultural figures, during which he also claimed Western countries were trying to cancel the works of composers Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff.Sharing an article about incarcerated Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Twitter, Rowling wrote: ‘Critiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance, or who jail and poison their critics.’The writer also shared the hashtag #IStandWithUkraine.In a subsequent tweet, she detailed the work her Lumos charity is doing in the country.Critiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance, or who jail and poison their critics. #IStandWithUkraine https://t.co/aNItgc5aiW‘Children trapped in orphanages and other institutions are exceptionally vulnerable right now,’ she wrote.‘Thank you so, so much to everyone who has already donated to Lumos’s Ukraine appeal.’Rowling said she was personally matching all donations to the Lumos emergency appeal up to £1 million.Putin is reported as saying earlier today: ‘They cancelled Joanne Rowling recently, the children’s author.To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video‘Her books are published all over the world.

A Harry Potter book quiz in New Zealand has been canned over JK Rowling trans view row.

Controversial actor Laurence Fox has lashed out at the stars of the Harry Potter film franchise amid the JK Rowling trans row.