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Following the death of her longterm partner two years ago, Dame Maureen Lipman has revealed she's found love again and is dating a new man.The Coronation Street actress, 77, who portrays Evelyn Plummer in the hit ITV soap, is set to attend the National Television Awards next week with her mystery "gentleman friend", whose name is David. Speaking about the upcoming awards bash in a new interview with the Sunday Express, Dame Maureen said: “I’m going with my gentleman friend David – it’s a baptism of fire for him.The most important thing is that I find a dress.” She described her new beau as "very nice", adding: “It’s a gift for all concerned.

Maureen Lipman has become an iconic figure in Coronation Street since joining the soap in 2018 as Evelyn Plummer.The 76-year-old actress has won the hearts of many fans and while she is expected to take a temporary break from the show, landing the lead role in the play Rose set to run in London's West End for a month starting in May, she signed an extension on her contract last year for the soap. But what about her life away from the cobbles? Maureen’s late husband Jack Rosenthal, who she married in 1974, actually penned over 130 episodes of Coronation Street during the early days of the ITV soap and she said Evelyn is the sort of character her late husband would have created.