Coronation Street legend Beverley Callard lands role in major TV show – and it’s a bizarre one
Beverley Callard played Liz McDonald on the soap (Picture: ITV)
Coronation Street star Beverley Callard has revealed she’ll be reprising her role in an upcoming comedy.
The Liz McDonald actress, 67, stars as a ‘fake psychic’ in the BBC series Mandy played by show creator Diane Morgan.
In the teaser pic, Beverley is seen rocking a dark red perm in front of a poster which reads: ‘Psychic Pauline.’
Which we assume is Beverley’s character.
In 2019, Beverley confirmed her exit, which would be her final outing as Liz, but the pandemic put paid to her filming final scenes.
She was due to return for a stint later, but the last we have heard from Liz is that she now lives in Spain, and Beverley has closed the door on the role for good, confirming the end of the chapter previously.
The third series of Mandy is on @BBCiPlayer, created by and starring the amazing @missdianemorgan. A host of new guest stars join in on the adventures but my favourite is @Beverleycallard as a fake psychic #hunderrated pic.twitter.com/CPc2ldjy7m— Hun-derrated (@Hun_derrated) May 8, 2024
In a previous chat, she told podcast How to be 60, that the scripts and the storylines were not the same as she previously loved.
‘I just felt that the scripts weren’t what they used to be. I’m trying to be diplomatic. I wasn’t miserable, it’s difficult to put into words,’ she mused.
‘But years ago, we used to get the script and you’d think “Oh my God, this is amazing, I cannot believe I’m going to be filming this!” but for me it got to, well, they didn’t write for me as much because I was older and that really got to me.
‘If you’re there, you want to be busy. There’s nothing worse than being bored. And I would open the script and think “Well we filmed that three years ago” and it wasn’t very exciting.’
The star insists that she adored playing Liz, but there are clearly no regrets about leaving.
She added: ‘I felt it was time for me to go because it didn’t give me the buzz I’d always had. I loved my time there and I’ve got the dearest friends there.
‘I will never retire but now I have the choice, which is great. The day I handed my notice in I was thinking if I was doing the right thing, but now I know I did do the right thing. Completely liberating and I’m much more relaxed as a person.
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