Coronation Street's Dame Maureen Lipman refuses to have cosmetic surgery and watch herself on TV
Coronation Street actress Dame Maureen Lipman cannot watch herself on TV because of her looks, but she will not have cosmetic surgery to make her feel confident about her appearance.
Coronation Street star Dame Maureen Lipman never watches herself on TV because she will agonise over her looks.
The 79-year-old actress - who plays Evelyn Plummer in the ITV soap - has ruled out cosmetic surgery to improve her appearance because she is "too scared” to go under the knife.
Maureen told the new issue of Best magazine: "I don't want to look at myself and be sitting there thinking, 'Oh, you look this, you look that, oh that's a terrible profile, why didn't you have your nose done?'
"I look at all these people with faces full of Botox, and I can understand it because we're looking at ourselves and filming all the time.
"It's everybody's right to mess about with themselves, but I'm too scared to do any of that."
With cosmetic surgery firmly ruled out, the Agony alum is turning to natural methods to enhance her look.
Maureen said: "I've started going to Barrecore and sculpt classes. I've done a few, and I like it. There's music, and the teachers have a mic, but they're not bullying.
"I always forget when I'm not exercising, just how much of a rush you get when you've done it."
Maureen got a wake-up call to get in shape after she "suddenly found myself buying size 16 trousers".
The Oklahoma! alum added: "And I thought it's got to stop. I've got my mother's figure. I'm a bit hippy.
"My husband is a provider, he's got a sugar habit, and he thinks every meal is at least two courses. I've sunk into middle-aged spread, so I thought I'd better go.
"Otherwise, you're never comfortable in your clothes. My wired bras are sticking into me, and I get non-stop bra adverts on my phone because I get home and complain about the wire. It's listening to me!
"I've got a way of taking it off while we're watching television, just by moving my arms, and then I find it under the cushions two days later - where's that pink bra come from?"
Maureen married businessman David Turner at his son's London home in September 2025, two years after they met at a lunch, and she asked him to marry her a year later.
Maureen was married to TV scriptwriter Jack Rosenthal from 1973 until his death in 2004 from multiple myeloma - a form of bone marrow cancer - at the age of 72, and they had a daughter named Amy, 50, and a son called Adam, 48, together.
She was then partnered with Guido Castro for 13 years until he died in 2021 at the age of 84 after contracting COVID-19.
Dad-of-three David lost Frances, his wife of 50 years, to Alzheimer’s three years before he married Maureen.
