Coronation Street star Stephanie Beacham has joked that she wants the former Prime Minister Liz Truss to be put in jail, after her latest interview was cut short.
The 75-year-old soap star appeared on Loose Women to talk about her return to Weatherfield, where she is set to cause havoc for her former on-screen flame Ken played by soap legend Bill Roache.
However, Loose Women aired a shorter programme today due to ITV hosting a special news programme at 11.15am, as the government outlined their Autumn budget after the disastrous mini budget last month.
As a result, the daytime talk show started late at almost 12:45pm, which meant that their interview with Stephanie was cut short as they only had around 45 minutes airtime in total for the episode.
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As their conversation came to an end, Kaye Adams said that Stephanie should “blame” Jeremy Hunt for their chat being brought to a swift end, as he led the budget announcement.
Stephanie replied: “I will blame Jeremy Hunt quite a lot I think,” before she joked: “But I think I want Liz Truss in jail first.”
The off-hand comment about the former Conservative Prime Minister left the panel in stitches, as she held a straight face for the studio audience.
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Stephanie also opened up about her triumphant return to Coronation Street as Martha Fraser, a character she last played 13 years ago when she had an affair with Ken Barlow.
Martha is set to become part of a new love triangle as Ken has started a new relationship with his former flame, Wendy Papadopoulous, when Martha arrives to help out with a local am-dram production.
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Ken is stunned to see Martha after all these years, and he starts to forget all about Wendy as he tries to rekindle a relationship with Martha. It seems history is repeating itself!
Stephanie is set to return to Coronation Street next week on Wednesday 23rd November.
Loose Women airs weekdays at 12:30pm on ITV and ITV X.