The show will be preparing to say hello to the character once again after the actress decided to leave the show full-time and secure a new part-time contact with the ITV soap.

Maureen Lipman plays Evelyn Plummer on the programme but decided to walk away from being a full-time cast member last year.

Instead, she became one of the first stars to ink one of the new shorter-term part-time contracts being handed out to stars in order to retain them on the show for just a few weeks a year while allowing them to pursue other ventures elsewhere when not filming.

These are being handed out more frequently to cast members who wish to take time away from the show as well as to those with less storylines as part of a cost-saving measure at ITV.

Now, having been off-screen for months studying at university, Evelyn will be back for a short stint to catch up with all the mayhem on the cobbles.

She will make a comeback to catch-up with her old pal Roy Cropper in an unexpected arrival.

While Roy is delighted to see her, he soon feels awkward when she invites herself to his planned dinner with Carla Connor and Lisa Swain.

However, Evelyn’s presence at the dinner is the least of their concerns when a mystery woman shows up.

A lady called Tia Wardley interrupts the meal with Corrie fans knowing that Lisa and Carla have been searching for a woman with the same name.

It soon transpires that Tia herself is also already very aware they have been trying to track her down.

But what happens next, and is it purely a coincidence that Evelyn happens to be there?

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Maureen first began playing Evelyn full-time in September 2018 until December of last year.

She briefly returned in March of this year ahead of her next stint in the upcoming week.

Maureen told The Sun she wanted to “enjoy life” and focus on her engagement as the main reason behind her full-time Corrie departure.

She proposed to business consultant boyfriend David Turner, 78, last year.

Maureen told us: “I’ll be absent for a while, and then coming back.

“I’m not going to die but then I’ll be in and out of it because I want to have a bit of a life.

“David and I are thinking of having a bit of a gap year.”

And she’s got her eye on new roles, adding: “I’m waiting to see what’s out there once I’m out there.

“There’s got to be something that Lesley Manville and Brenda Blethyn and Harriet Walters don’t play that I could do.”