Coronation Street star Lynne Verrall, with 30 year career, dies aged 76

Coronation Street star Lynne Verrall has died (Picture: ITV/Shutterstock)Successful TV and stage actress Lynne Verrall has died aged 76 after a long illness.She died in Paris on November 8, 2025, and a gofundme has since been set up in her memory.The actress was best known to Coronation Street fans as Geraldine Spellman, Summer Spellman’s (Harriet Bibby) grandmother, who she played in 2017 and 2018.Geraldine fought Billy Mayhew (Daniel Brocklebank) for custody of Summer after son Drew, Su