The actor said she was ‘too busy getting on with life’ to worry about being ‘thrown on the scrapheap’

Maureen Lipman has said older female actors are “thrown on the scrapheap” after a certain age but added: “That’s fair enough, isn’t it? The same thing happens to a leaf on a tree.”

In an interview with the Radio Times, the actor, who is working on Coronation Street, acknowledged there is “a certain amount of invisibility” at her age.

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