Coronation Street’s Beverley Callard confirms she has ‘shut the door’ on the cobbles ‘forever’ as she hints Liz McDonald could be ‘killed off’
Beverley Callard has confirmed she has ‘shut the door’ on Coronation Street ‘forever’.
The actress, 63, has played Liz McDonald on and off since 1989, but confirmed she would be saying goodbye to Weatherfield for good in 2019.
The soap favourite has confirmed she has no plans to ever reprise the role again, and has given ITV bosses permission to kill off her character.
Farewell: Beverley Callard has ‘shut the door’ on Coronation Street ‘forever’ after playing Liz McDonald on and off since 1989
Speaking to the Sunday Express magazine, she said: ‘It was a massive decision for me to make, but I believe I did it for the right reasons. I felt Liz had run her course. I’d hate to cheat any fans… I felt like she’d lost her way.’
‘Sadly, you can’t decide your own storylines and since I’m not going to film an exit they could even kill me off-screen. If they do I’ll accept it with grace. I’ve thought long and hard about this and I know that this time I’ve shut the door forever.’
Beverley won’t get the chance to film an exit for Liz amid concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, and although she ‘toyed with the idea’ of going back to the cobbles one more time, she’s now ‘sure’ that her time on the show is over.
She said: ‘I was actually toying with the idea of going back to film an exit, but I felt that they wouldn’t be able to do Liz justice under the current Covid restrictions.’
Iconic: The actress, 63, first played Liz in the ITV soap in 1989 and she announced in 2019 she would bid her final farewell
Corrie legend: Beverley has confirmed she has no plans to ever reprise the role again, as she’s given soap bosses permission to kill off her character
Since leaving Corrie, the soap star enjoyed a stint on the 2020 series of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! in Wales late last year.
Beverley recently paid tribute to her ‘darling friend’ Anne Kirkbride by sharing an iconic throwback snap on the sixth anniversary of her death.
Anne, who played Deirdre Barlow in Coronation Street for 43 years, passed away in 2015, aged 60, following a short battle with cancer.
Taking to Instagram, Beverley, captioned the photo, writing: ‘6 years ago I lost my darling friend. Miss her every single day, love never dies xx.’
‘Darling friend’: Beverley recently paid tribute to her ‘darling friend’ Anne Kirkbride by sharing an iconic throwback snap on the sixth anniversary of her death
Anne’s death came as a huge shock to her Coronation Street co-stars and millions of fans.
She went on sick leave for eight weeks in September 2014 but very few people knew how seriously ill she was, with close friend Beverley being one of the select few who was told.
Following Anne’s shock death on January 19, 2015, the beloved actress was laid to rest in an intimate ceremony a few weeks later, with a number of her closest relatives and friends in attendance.
At the time of Anne’s passing, Beverley said she struggled to come to come to terms with the loss of her ‘best friend and work sister’ saying ‘I truly miss her every single day.’
Long-term residents: The pair, pictured together in 1990, starred together on Coronation Street for decades and became the best of friends on and off screen
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