{"id":313570,"date":"2026-02-23T20:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313570\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:53:12","slug":"corrie-star-beverly-callard-in-fair-city-liz-mcdonald-actors-stint-kicks-off-with-some-truly-inept-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313570\/","title":{"rendered":"Corrie star Beverly Callard in Fair City: Liz McDonald actor&#8217;s stint kicks off with some truly inept writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u2018Fair City\u2019 (RT\u00c9 One) 1\/5\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lily (former \u2018Coronation Street\u2019 star Beverley Callard) comes face to face with her daughter Gwen (Emily Lamey) in the hilariously awful \u2018Fair City\u2019. Photo: RT\u00c9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/callard fair city.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Lily (former \u2018Coronation Street\u2019 star Beverley Callard) comes face to face with her daughter Gwen (Emily Lamey) in the hilariously awful \u2018Fair City\u2019. Photo: RT\u00c9<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For decades, viewers assumed that Coronation Street, Emmerdale and EastEnders all existed in hermetically-sealed parallel worlds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Each was set in a place that was recognisably England, but clearly not the same England as the others. Thus, no matter how many Coronation Street characters left the cobbles to go down to \u201cthat London\u201d, none of them ever popped into the Queen Vic for a lunchtime pint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Fair City\u2019 (RT\u00c9 One) 1\/5 Lily (former \u2018Coronation Street\u2019 star Beverley Callard) comes face to face with her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,69545,61,60,9617,6085],"class_list":{"0":"post-313570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-fair-city","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-pat-stacey","13":"tag-rte"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}