The actress bid farewell to the cobbles in 2018
Eva Price returns with new family to run the Rovers (Image: ITV)
ITV have confirmed that Corrie favourite Eva Price is returning to the cobbles this autumn as the landlady of The Rovers Return. Catherine Tyldesley is set to reprise her role after seven years alongside two new additions to the cast.
Catherine’s final scenes aired in August 2018 but the 41-year-old actress is back on set filming top secret scenes in Weatherfield and she has been joined by two new characters.
Actors Aaron McCusker and Pauline McLynn will be arriving alongside Catherine as Eva’s partner Ben Driscoll and his interfering mother Maggie.
Eva and Ben will be revealed to residents as the new owners of The Rovers Return in October – putting Eva back behind the bar of the nation’s favourite pub for the first time since 2018.
Catherine Tyldesley appeared on Coronation Street from 2011 to 2018(Image: ITV)
Eva will be reunited with her sisters Leanne and Toyah, as well as catching up with her old friends and neighbours. But what has she been up to since she left Weatherfield and how will this new clan fit into the drama on the street?
Also joining the cast will be Ben’s two sons and Eva’s daughter Suzie and it is safe to say the Price/Driscoll family will be arriving with a bang and a suitcase full of secrets.
Corrie fans will recognise Pauline as Mrs Doyle in Father Ted and Libby Croker in Shameless. She also appeared in EastEnders as Yvonne Cotton in 2014.
Catherine Tyldesley will reprise her role as Eva Price on the ITV soap(Image: Joe Maher/Getty Images)
Aaron is best known for playing Jamie McGuire in Shameless, he also starred as Jim Hutton, Freddie Mercury’s boyfriend, in the 2018 feature film Bohemian Rhapsody.
Catherine left Coronation Street in 2018 after seven years on the cobbles. Since waving farewell to Weatherfield she has appeared in dramas such as Viewpoint, Suspicion, Scarborough and most recently The Good Ship Murder.
Speaking of Catherine’s return to the soap, Coronation Street producer Kate Brooks said: “We are beyond thrilled that Eva is returning as the landlady of the Rovers, with her new blended family in tow.
“The Driscolls do not arrive quietly, so expect big drama, explosive secrets and raucous knees ups galore. To have actors of Catherine, Aaron and Pauline’s considerable calibre at the beating heart of this family is absolutely wonderful, and we can’t wait for you to get to know and fall in love with them as much as we have already done. Strap yourselves in, it’s going to be an exciting and eventful ride.”
Catherine’s long-awaited return to Weatherfield comes days after former Rovers landlady Jenny Bradley announced she will be leaving the soap. Sally Ann Matthews first joined the cast in 1986 and became one of the show’s most popular characters until she left in 1991.
Sally returned to the show on a permanent basis in 2015 and has been a fixture in Weatherfield ever since. Jenny became the landlady at the Rovers Return and has been a key part in some of the show’s most exciting storylines.
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