BEVERLEY CALLARD - best known as Liz McDonald in Coronation Street - nearly gave up on her husband Jon McEwan long before they even walked down the aisle, she has revealed.
Coronation Street's Beverley Callard "stood up" her now husband Jon McEwan on their first date, saying she thought "all men were b******s". The Liz McDonald favourite "chickened out" of meeting up with him, saying she "really didn't want to go". The 62-year-old then had to ask herself "what am I doing?" on seeing him for the first time, with a "shaved head [and] gold tooth". Speaking to the latest issue of OK! Magazine, she opened up about how their romance awkwardly started, before they wed back in 2010.
I turned up and saw he had a shaved head, gold tooth and was covered in tattoos and I thought, what am I doing?
On how they met, she detailed: "We were set up on a blind date by some mutual friends.
Bev has been married three times in the past, first to Paul Atkinson in 1974, with whom she has one daughter, fellow actress Rebecca Callard, 43.
Six years later, she wed David Sowden, an economics teacher, but in 1988 they separated amicably.
Her third marriage was to Steve Callard in 1989 and the now ex couple welcomed son, Joshua.
Bev first joined Corrie back in October 1989 and it will be her 30th anniversary later this year.
She had popped up on the cobbles before as Gail and Brian Tilsley's friend June Dewhurst, before joining full time as Liz years later.
The small screen regular took a brief break in 2010 and 2016, but returned for good just months after the latter.
Her other roles have included Flo Henshaw in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, as well as in rival Emmerdale.
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