Coronation Street legend reveals she’s got a surprise new job after quitting soap – and she doesn’t earn a penny
CORONATION Street star Beverley Callard has revealed she is teaching a fitness class twice a week.
The 65-year-old, best known for playing Liz McDonald, does the new gig for free, and instead just asks local women donate £5 a session b to charity.
Beverley is well known for being a fitness fanatic and previously released work out videos and even taught classes at the height of her fame.
And now Bev, who is no longer on the soap, is back to doing what she loves after moving to Norfolk with her husband Jon.
She told Magazine: "“So about six weeks into our move to Norfolk, I said to Jon, ‘Right, I’m going to start teaching again.’ I posted an ad on the local village Facebook group, saying I was looking for 25 feisty women to take part in my class.
“It didn’t matter what age they were, what shape they were or their fitness level. I’m not into teaching a class full of stick insects. I just wanted real women."
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“Within two days, 700 people wanted to do it, which is amazing. I charge £5 and all the money goes to the East Anglian Air Ambulance.”
Beverley was an aerobics teacher before she was cast as Angie Richards in Emmerdale in 1983.
She popped up on exercise slots on GMTV in the 80s, wiggling morning viewers through the mambo and the cha cha cha.
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There were also four DVDs, books and a fitness column in a newspaper but she turned down a permanent gig on the morning show.
In 1989, she joined Coronation Street as Liz McDonald and she left in 1998 to concentrate on her fitness career.
But in 2003, she was back on screen as the Rovers Return landlady before quitting for good in 2019 with her final scenes being aired the following year.
