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'Coronation Street' star Beverley Callard admits she can't watch her own work

DUBLIN, IRELAND - MAY 22:  Beverley Callard attends the TV Now Awards on May 22, 2010 in Dublin, Ireland.  (Photo by Phillip Massey/FilmMagic)
Beverley Callard says she can't watch her own work. (FilmMagic)

Coronation Street star Beverley Callard has admitted that she can't watch herself on screen.

Callard, who has been acting since the mid-1970s, has said that it's "the worst feeling in the world watching yourself".

Speaking to the Daily Mirror, Callard added that her husband will watch her work but she'll stay in another room: "Jon will be locked in a room watching it and I’ll be going, 'Is it any good?' through a closed door."

Appearing in new comedy Newark, Newark which will air on Gold, Callard discussed the experience of attending a screening of the forthcoming sitcom: "I went to the screening of it because I had to, but I hid behind a pillar so I didn’t have to look at myself."

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In the show, which also stars Matthew Horne and Morgana Robinson, Callard plays an interfering mother and she had a lot of fun getting into the role: "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."

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Kevin Hart meets Beverley Callard on the Corrie set. (Getty Images)

Callard first appeared as Liz McDonald on Coronation Street in 1989 and originally left in 1998 before returning in 2003. She later left again in 2011 but once again reprised the role in 2013.

In 2019, Callard again announced that she was leaving the soap with her final scenes airing the following year.

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 04:  Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall laughs as she chats to cast member Beverley Callard outside the Rovers Return during a tour of the Coronation Street set on February 4, 2010 in Manchester, England.  (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall chats to Beverley Callard outside the Rovers Return. (Getty Images)

Since leaving, she has criticised Coronation Street and how she had "no life" because of the show.

"It’s not nine to five, it’s like seven until 10 at night and it’s six days a week, it’s really full on and you have no life, like it used to be a lot harder years ago when the cast was smaller."

She has also claimed that the scripts are no longer as good as they were when she first joined the soap.

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