Beverley Callard missed the British Soap Awards to do some sanding.
The 62-year-old actress – who plays Liz McDonald in ‘Coronation Street’ – skipped the star-studded event at The Lowry, Salford, on Saturday (01.06.19), so she could stay at home and do some DIY.
Bev wrote on her Twitter page: "Congrats to all at the soap awards! I was sanding woodwork- lol. I hear you all had a ball! x (sic)"
The ‘Corrie’ legend previously quipped she would quit Weatherfield and spend her days doing DIY if she could afford it, and would be able to swap Liz’s famed leopard print outfits and mountains of war paint for baggy clothes and no make-up.
She said: "If I could afford it I would never go to work again, I would have no make-up on, I would wear baggy clothes."
Beverley is such a big fan of doing jobs around her house and helping her husband out with home improvements she has booked herself on a polished plaster course.
She said: "I did labouring [on my birthday]. My husband built a chimney breast and I was his labourer.
"I was passing trowels, and emptying buckets of wood. I chipped off 600 tiles. I love it [DIY].
"I’m doing a course in polished plaster."
Beverley’s alter-ego Liz doesn’t share her desire to wear baggy clothes, with the bubbly blonde often seen wearing skin-tight attire – much to the former ‘Emmerdale’ actress’ disgust.
She said: "Many times I get into my dressing room and think, ‘No, do I really have to wear that?’
"I’m sure the costume department go shopping for Liz and just have a laugh.
"Even if they find something nice for me I go, ‘That’s really nice,’ and then they take it in, so it doesn’t fit me and I look an absolute disaster.
"And they go, ‘Beverley, that’s great for Liz.’ "
Beverley Callard missed Soap Awards to do sanding
