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Maureen Lipman Set to Marry This Weekend, Gyles Brandreth Says

The Coronation Street star previously said she proposed to David Turner on a train on Tu B'Av.

Overview

  • Brandreth disclosed on his Rosebud podcast that he will attend the ceremony on Sunday, prompting multiple outlets to report the imminent wedding.
  • Lipman wrote in the Spectator that she asked Turner to marry her during a train journey after noting it was Tu B'Av, when a Jewish woman can propose.
  • The couple became engaged in September last year and later told their families, noting their combined age of 156, she said in her account.
  • Media coverage has not reported a venue or additional wedding details beyond Brandreth’s comments and Lipman’s prior essay.
  • Lipman, a Dame best known as Evelyn Plummer in Coronation Street, has been making brief returns to the soap as her character studies law.