[Scarlett.]

Coronation Street legend Liz Dawn has been rushed to hospital after suffering a heart attack at home.

The 73-year-old actress, who played Vera Duckworth in the ITV soap, was taken to casualty with chest pains.

Fellow Corrie stars last night rallied round Liz, who quit the show due to the incurable lung disease emphysemia.

Sue Nicholls, who plays salon boss Audrey Roberts, said: “She is a real trooper, she will get through this.”

Her husband Mark Eden, former Corrie brute Alan Bradley, added: “Liz is a great woman, I’m sure she’ll pull through.”

Liz was at home in Manchester with husband Donald when she was taken ill.

Donald said last night: “Liz is in hospital. She had a slight heart attack. She is alright.”

Friends revealed the actress had been allowed home to recuperate.

Liz played battleaxe Vera – wife of long-suffering layabout Jack Duckworth – for 34 years.

She married her beloved husband Donald Ibbertson, an electrician, in January 1965.

In January, she told the Mirror: “I have only made one plan for 2013. To make sure I am alive this time next year.”

Mirror

[Smithy]

Omg


she's on my deathlist this year tho

[GypsyGoth]

Hope she recovers

Originally Posted by Smithy

Omg


she's on my deathlist this year tho

[AnnieK]

Aw...hope she makes a full recovery.

[Marc]

I thought she was already dead

[Suze]

Originally Posted by Marc

I thought she was already dead

So did I. I think they killed her off in the soap didn't they? I am probably getting her muddled with the character then.

[Marc]

She's doing pretty amazingly in my eyes considering

[AnnieK]

She has been I'll for years through smoking related illness and so that's why she left corrie and they killed her off in that.

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by Marc

I thought she was already dead

I think you're thinking of Bill Tarmey (Jack Duckworth)

[joeysteele]

A true legend of Corrie, I hope she recovers soon.

[Marcus.]

oh