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“Coronation Street Star Maureen Lipman Enjoys a Quiet Life in a Luxurious London Borough with £1m Homes”

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Coronation Street star Maureen Lipman’s secret posh life in swanky London flat after marriage heartbreaks.

Coronation Street star Maureen Lipman is a household name thanks to her impressive decades-long TV career, starting from when she hit our screens in 1968 on Coronation Street.

But, while the veteran actress is best known as Evelyn Plummer, Tyrone Dobbs’ (Alan Halsall) grandmother from humble beginnings on the ITV soap. Off screen, the 78-year-old life is a far cry from the cobbles.

Maureen, who is joining Alan Titchmarsh on his ITV show Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh, in fact lives in the lap of luxury in one of London”s most exclusive areas in the City of Westminster.

The actress has boasted about her secret “funky flat in Paddington Basin”, which she moved to in 2007 after years of raising her children with late husband Jack Rosenthal, Amy and Adam in another pricey neighbourhood.

“I moved from Muswell Hill [north London] to a funky flat in Paddington Basin a year and a half ago,” she previously told The Independent. “I love, love it, love it! Westbourne Grove has the best shopping in London, by far.”.

The stunning area has an average property price of £1,068,271, according to property website Rightmove, which dropped from 2019’s average of £1.3m.

The basement flat was described by acclaimed Paul Rogers, who did a profile on her for the paper, as a “gorgeous Victorian house, with fabulous features and some good light.”

The apartment also houses a gallery of posters and pictures from Maureen’s life of theatre, film and of her family.

The soap star, whose home is a stone’s-throw from Downton Abbey actor Hugh Bonneville’s Georgian townhouse, spends her time in the area perusing the the iconic Alexander Fleming Museum and dining at any number of swanky cafes in nearby Marylebone.

On sunny evenings, she explores Little Venice and is known to nip across to the Canal Café Theatre. The actress also told The Telegraph, “I also have a small apartment in Manchester where I stay when I’m filming”.

But while she enjoys the trappings of a coveted area and all it’s posh amenities, Maureen insists she’s happiest keeping things simple.

When my latest show at the theatre ended, we all celebrated with champagne and then the rest of the cast went off for a celebratory meal at The Ivy,” Maureen, who is also a West End actress, told The Express in the past.

“I insisted on going home because all I wanted was a slice of toast with baked beans. My late husband, the playwright Jack Rosenthal, and I both shared very simple tastes in food,” she explained.

“Whenever we came home from an awards night we would always have beans or a bowl of Heinz tomato soup. I’m not really interested in fine dining or getting a table at the most sought-after restaurants.”

The actress retreated to her garden flat for a fresh start a few years after the tragic death of her first husband, Jack.

Jack, a screenwriter for Coronation Street, died from cancer in 2004, and Maureen went on to marry businessman Guido Castro for 13 years. She faced heartache again when in 2021, he passed away following a battle with Covid

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