Brave Beverley Callard has spoken for the first time since undergoing breast cancer surgery. The Coronation Street icon – Liz McDonald on the cobbles – went under the knife on Friday.

Bev, 68, revealed she is back home to recover but admitted her emotions were “all over the place”. She said on Saturday (February 21): “I was supposed to come home yesterday, but they decided to keep me in overnight due to minor complications. So I’ve been home a couple of hours.

“I look very pale. The nurses were calling me pale and passionate. I don’t know about passionate, but I am very pale. I’m feeling okay.

“Had a bit of a cry, as you do, but I’m okay. I’m okay. Sort of emotions are all over the place, you know, anyway, I won’t rant on about that. The staff at the North Norfolk Hospital were amazing.”

Defiant Bev even joked that a member of her medical team was “dishy” and she wouldn’t tell her hubby, Jon McEwan. But the soap legend – her Corrie spell spanned more than 30 years – confessed she was terrified of being “lop-sided” after her op.

She said: “They’ve been in and drawn all over me and then I have to go for an injection in an hour and then the anaesthetist came in and he’s called Peter, he’s actually quite dishy, so there we go! I won’t tell Jon that.

“I’m feeling okay. Sometimes you get these self-indulgent feelings and vanity but I’m not alone.

“This other lady says she’s just the same. I keep thinking, ‘Will I be lopsided? What will I wear?’ But I’m really good and really strong and I’ll let you know how it goes.”

On Thursday told fans from her hospital bed that two lymph nodes would also be removed during her procedure. She was given the shock cancer news last month, just 20 minutes before starting her new job on Irish soap Fair City.