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Beverley Callard is happy to 'grow old disgracefully'

Beverley Callard feels excited about her future credit:Bang Showbiz
Beverley Callard feels excited about her future credit:Bang Showbiz

Beverley Callard doesn't mind "growing old disgracefully".

The 65-year-old actress - who is best known for playing Liz McDonald in 'Coronation Street' - feels her "world has opened up" and she's looking forward to next chapter of her life, after moving to the countryside with her husband Jon McEwan.

She said: "It’s a really great feeling. I feel like everything is slotting into place and it feels a bit too good to be true - it’s just fantastic.

"You wonder if something bad is around the corner, but I think you just have to enjoy it, don’t you?"

Beverley found herself reassessing her life amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

But the former soap star insists she remains determined to have fun.

She told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "I think a lot of us have been doing that after the past two years.

"It’s made many of us really appreciate what we’ve got - I’m one of the luckiest people.

"I don’t feel any wiser at 65 and think I’m maybe growing old disgracefully ... but who cares!"

Beverley stars in the new comedy series 'Newark, Newark'.

And the veteran actress admits she jumped at the chance to appear in the show, which centres on a divorced chip-shop owner.

She said: "When I left 'Corrie', I was going to wait for a really good drama where I wear no make-up and look really plain and boring, very different to how viewers have seen me before.

"But this script came along and I couldn’t say no. Every character jumps off the page and the scripts are just so funny.

"Pauline is so hideously grotesque and wonderful, I just had to do it. It was so fun playing somebody so awful. She’s like a panto villain."