Coronation Street star Maureen Lipman quits Celebrity Gogglebox and reveals why she was unhappy with show

CORONATION Street star Dame Maureen Lipman has quit Celebrity Gogglebox.

Maureen had been a regular alongside former Conservative MP Gyles Brandreth and made her mark on the show in 2020, after walking away from her TV in disgust because of something she had watched.

But the actress slammed Celebrity Gogglebox editors on Loose Women yesterday, saying she was furious to see her witty comments cut from the show.

Panelist Janet Street-Porter asked her during Tuesday's Loose Women: "I want to ask you about Gogglebox.

"You were wonderful. Are you not going to be on it any more?"

And 75-year-old Maureen replied: "I’ve seen all the male tackle I need to see for this lifetime to be honest.

“We had such a good time but none of the clever things we said went into it. So no."

She previously moaned about her Gogglebox screentime during a chat on This Morning.

She appeared with Gyles and told presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield: "I thought that I was going into something where I was going to be a sort of female Will Self and I was going to comment on people.

"We say really witty things don’t we Gyles?

"However, it’s cut in favour of us going 'Ew!' and 'What’s that? Oh, I didn’t realise people were growing aubergines like that?'"

Maureen plays Evelyn Plummer on Coronation Street, and her other half for 30 years, playwright Jack Rosenthal, wrote 129 episodes of Corrie in its early days.

The couple had two children together, writers Amy and Adam Rosenthal.

Jack died in 2004.

Earlier this year, Maureen’s partner of 13 years, Guido Castro, died aged 84 after a battle with Covid. 

 The former computer expert, who had a form of Parkinson’s disease, tested positive days after receiving his first dose of the vaccine.