Overview

• Dame Maureen Lipman, 79, will reprise her role as Evelyn Plummer in Coronation Street in the coming weeks.
• Evelyn was written out in January after leaving Weatherfield at 78 to study law at university.
• Producers plan for Lipman to make short guest appearances rather than rejoining the cast full-time.
• Lipman had said she would be “in and out” of the soap to balance acting with her personal life.
• Since 2018 she has earned acclaim as Evelyn Plummer and has urged the show’s writers to take a simpler storytelling approach.