The Coronation Street<\/a> actor also revealed what she\u2019s been watching on TV recently, and whether or not she will ever make a return to Celebrity Gogglebox.<\/p>\n This interview was originally published in Radio Times magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n What\u2019s the view from your sofa?<\/strong><\/p>\n At the moment I don\u2019t really have a sofa. That\u2019s between me and Sofology\u2026 but I have a chair and I have a fake fire, and like to sit there with a glass of wine.<\/p>\n And what do you watch?<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019ll watch what\u2019s on Sky Arts and then I\u2019ll scroll down and if there\u2019s something like Countryfile on I\u2019ll watch that: it gives me some peace. I don\u2019t care whodunnit. Not for me. What I\u2019m really enjoying is This Is Going to Hurt. It\u2019s wonderful. Beautifully acted, very funny, but also hard and dark. I believe it.<\/p> What won\u2019t you watch?<\/strong><\/p>\n I hate cookery programmes. The other night, the news from the Ukraine was absolutely heinous and then the television changed from the new\u2026 and it\u2019s Nigella. Obviously, this isn\u2019t Nigella\u2019s fault, but there she is saying, \u201cI like steak. I like to do it with double cream\u2026\u201d And I\u2019m just thinking, \u201cThis is so inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n You\u2019re in the new series of ITV\u2019s DNA Journey with Rula Lenska. Why did you want to do it?<\/strong><\/p>\n I didn\u2019t really want to do it because I\u2019m prejudiced against what I call weeping documentaries. Even The Repair Shop, which I used to love, has gone completely lachrymose. And also because I knew that Rula was a Countess, whereas I was from some dismal shtetl. As it happened, it turned out to be one of the nicest things I\u2019ve ever done.<\/p>\n You make a great couple\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I didn\u2019t really know her until we were both on Corrie. It was great when she was on because I had someone else like me \u2013 if you could describe her as like me. She\u2019s a bit more glamorous. We were the elderly crumpets. Well, she was the elderly crumpet. I\u2019m just elderly. But I think if you\u2019re at this age, and you\u2019re not a couple \u2013 I lost my partner [Guido Castro, to COVID-related complications] in January last year \u2013 then you do rely on friends. Because, my God, even with my life, which would seem on the surface to be very busy, you do spend a lot of nights sitting in front of the cathode ray thinking, \u201cI don\u2019t want to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n We miss seeing you on Celebrity Gogglebox with Gyles Brandreth. Is that all done?<\/strong><\/p>\n It is from my point of view. I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll put someone else with Gyles. I went into Gogglebox imagining that they wanted me for my wit and my brain. Of course, they just want to show you willies and for you to be shocked. Honestly, we were really funny together, but none of that was used. And if they don\u2019t want to use what we gave them, f**k them.<\/p>\n You were involved in a couple of public spats about cancel culture and Helen Mirren playing Golda Meir. Do you regret putting your head above the parapet?<\/strong><\/p>\n My kids would like me to rein it in. I don\u2019t mean to be provocative, but if you are an opinionated person or if you care about injustice, then you do tend to speak out. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s made me very popular to be anti-Corbyn or indeed to take Ed Miliband on about his attitude to Israel. I\u2019m not on the BAFTA list any more, or the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Those days have gone. But criticism always hurts whatever age you are. I don\u2019t feel \u201creleased\u201d to be a cantankerous old bag, even if I am one. I like things to be nice as well.<\/p>\n You can read the full interview with Dame Maureen Lipman in this week\u2019s issue of Radio Times magazine. <\/b>Subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0to get each issue delivered to your door. For more from the biggest stars in TV, l<\/strong>isten to the\u00a0Radio Times podcast<\/a>\u00a0with Jane Garvey.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n DNA Journey with Dame Maureen Lipman and Rula Lenska airs on Tuesday 12th April at 9pm on ITV and ITV Hub<\/a>. Find something to watch tonight with our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>.<\/span><\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/body><\/html>\n By Benji Wilson Published: Sunday, 10 April 2022 at 12:00 am As Dame Maureen Lipman makes an appearance on the new season of ITV\u2019s DNA Journey next week, Radio Times magazine caught up with her to find out all about her time on the show. 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