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God Save The Queen. And Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth.

It might be a very sunny April, but Coronation Street stars were finally able to celebrate Christmas at a huge festive party in Manchester. And it was a very familiar location for the knees up for Corrie's cast and crew on Friday night.

Tom Cruise, Helen Mirren and Damian Lewis are to lead the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebrations on ITV.

Naman Ramachandran Tom Cruise, Helen Mirren, Damian Lewis and Omid Djalili will lead an A-list cast of talent celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee on U.K. broadcaster ITV.

Coronation Street fans were sharing their worry on Monday night as the soap returned to screens. It was back to Weatherfield for the latest drama as the fallout from Imran Habeeb and Abi Franklin's baby discovery.

Gyles Brandreth has opened up about his friendship with Maureen Lipman in the wake of them starring on Celebrity Gogglebox together. Gyles, 74, first appeared on the hit Channel 4 show in 2019 alongside actress Sheila Hancock. However, Sheila decided to leave the programme after the first season, sparking Gyles to team up with Maureen Lipman instead.

Speaking about her role, Helen explained: “I swore to myself that I would never play a character that is described as the long-suffering, but she is, and she is a great character.”The Oscar-winning performer continued: “This turned out to be Roger Michell's last film.“He was a great film director and I think it is wonderful to have this as his last because it is very funny, but at the same time it has great emotional depth.”Helen is also set to star as former Israeli prime minister, Golda Meir, in the upcoming biopic Golda.However, the casting of Helen for the role attracted some controversy.Fellow actor Maureen Lipman claimed Helen should not play a Jewish character as she is not Jewish herself.Speaking about the choice of casting, she explained: "With that, I disagree because the Jewishness of the character is so integral.“I’m sure she will be marvellous, but it would never be allowed for Ben Kingsley to play Nelson Mandela."You just couldn’t even go there," she told The Jewish Chronicle last month.Maureen later clarified her remarks, stressing that they were aimed at the casting team and not Helen.She said: "I have nothing against Helen playing it."My query is should the casting directors have looked first, and maybe they did, at Bette Midler or Streisand or Jennifer Connelly or Scarlett Johansson… or Tracey Ullman?"Helen admitted that she had also pondered whether she would be right for the role and addressed her concerns with director Guy Nattiv.She said: "It was certainly a question that I had before I accepted the role."I said, ‘Look Guy, I’m not Jewish, and if you want to think about that and decide to go in a different direction, no hard feelings.

upcoming biopic about former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.Mirren, 76, was called out by actress Maureen Lipman in January, who asserted that a Jewish actress should play the role of Meir.“The Queen” actress — who is not Jewish — broke her silence and told the Daily Mail that the ethnicity question was brought up in casting.“It was certainly a question that I had, before I accepted the role,” Mirren said.Meir was the first woman to hold top office in the Jewish state’s government. Mirren added that Meir “is a very important person in Israeli history.”“Golda” is set to premiere later this year and will chronicle her role as Prime Minister during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

K.J. Yossman Helen Mirren, who plays Israeli prime minister Golda Meir in an upcoming biopic, has broken her silence on the debate around her casting.“Golda,” which wrapped in December and also stars “Call My Agent’s” Camille Cottin, is directed by Israeli filmmaker Guy Nattiv (“Skin”).However, there was disquiet over the casting around the time the film was shooting in London, last winter, after photographs emerged of Mirren looking drastically different for the role.Actor Maureen Lipman (“The Pianist”) told Variety in Jan.: “Helen will be great.

Helen Mirren is addressing the controversy surrounding her latest role.

Helen Mirren has been engulfed in controversy due to her latest role, former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, in the upcoming biopic “Golda”.

Maureen Lipman, 74, has said her "heart is cracking" after her beloved partner Guido Castro died in his respite home last Thursday.The Coronation Street actress revealed that he had previously contracted COVID-19, but that was not what had "killed him".She revealed: "He got Covid – it wasn't Covid that killed him but it weakened him terribly."We don't know how he got it or when or if he had it when he got the vaccine."The couple had been dating for 13 years.Maureen recently shared that she would be taking a break from Coronation Street, so that she could get her Covid vaccination.The star who plays Evelyn Plummer on the soap explained that she would be taking a "bit of sabbatical".She told the Outspoken Beauty podcast: "Well it has been a

Maureen Lipman's partner of 13 years, Guido Castro, has died aged 84.

Actress Maureen Lipman has described the new socially distanced way of working on Coronation Street as “really weird”

Maureen, 74, who lost her husband of 30 years to cancer in 2004, met her new partner 13 years ago but says she sees no point in getting wed. The mother of two, who still lives alone, believes the only reason young women get married these days is "for the dress".She said: "It's quite easy to be a single independent woman in this day and age and have loads of male friends and a partner you're not married to.There are no obstacles to that."So I'm not quite sure of the purpose of marriage for me. I don't need anyone's money, or their house.

Amidst the drama and chaos that Coronation Street brings, fans were left stunned by last night’s episode when Evelyn got a glam makeover.

It’s unlikely that we’ll see some of our favourite Coronation street stars on our screens for a while as the Coronavirus pandemic continues to affect countries around the world.

Celebrity Gogglebox. Maureen Lipman, who plays Evelyn Plummer in the ITV soap, was extremely unhappy as she watched a risque Channel 4 show.

Liz Hurley and Donna Air were just some of the stars who attended the Turn The Tables event at the Fortnum and Mason hotel in London today.

A blossoming romance for Roy Cropper and Evelyn Plummer could be on the cards when the cafe owner unwittingly gatecrashes a date on Coronation Street.

Maureen Lipman has revealed that Coronation Street 's older stars are set to return to work in September.