Coronation Street actress Dame Maureen Lipman has mentioned ITV provided safety to guard her from antisemitic assaults.

The actress, 77, who performs Evelyn Plummer within the cleaning soap, is quoted by The Sun as telling an occasion on the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism that she discovered the supply “a real surprise” earlier than including “this is where we are now”.

ITV informed the newspaper: “The well­being of all our cast and crew is of utmost importance.

“Everyone ought to really feel protected to come back to work, and Maureen has the total assist of all the Coronation Street household.”

Fellow actress Tracy-Ann Oberman informed the identical occasion that further safety was additionally deployed at her model of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.

The former EastEnders actress mentioned: “For the last week, the production has had to have security men around keeping an eye on things. It’s like a dystopian nightmare.

“A Jewish actress placing on a play about antisemitism which must be made safe due to Jew-hating extremists.

“As one reviewer said, ‘written in 1600, set in 1936, as relevant today in 2023’. Ain’t that the truth.”

Dame Maureen had earlier been important of the group Artists for Palestine UK who had printed a letter accusing Israel of struggle crimes in Gaza.

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“When babies were garrotted, women dragged by their hair and a family had eyeballs gouged out and fingers chopped off in front of their children – do they really think that Israeli blockades on the border with Gaza area justification for such acts of violence?” she had mentioned.

“Those bigoted signaturists, do they have no soul as well as no judgment?”