Bev Callard: 'I'd love to play Kat's mum!'

Bev Callard: 'I'd love to play Kat's mum!'
Bev Callard: 'I'd love to play Kat's mum!' (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Coronation Street's Beverley Callard wants to cross to a rival soap and play Kat's mum in EastEnders. The actress, best known as Rovers landlady Liz McDonald, swapped Weatherfield for Walford for a Children In Need sketch. She told the Mirror: "I loved working with Jessie Wallace, I adore her. It was hard not to get the giggles. We were shooting a piece of history. I felt honoured." Asked if she would ever consider joining the cast of EastEnders, she said: "I could not say no. I'd give it a go - just for a while. I'd love to go back and play Kat's mum." Liz is bowing out of Corrie in the new year, but has insisted her character will return. She said: "I don't die so Liz will be back. After I handed my notice in I didn't know if they were going to kill Liz off or not, but they said they would like me to come back. I agonised over leaving because I love Coronation Street. But I want to go on stage and I have exciting plans."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.