Coronation Street star Sue Cleaver will leave the soap after 25 years in the role of Eileen Grimshaw, saying she wants to "embrace change".

Coronation Street fans are already convinced they know how Eileen Grimshaw will be leaving the cobbles, after actress Sue Cleaver announced her departure from the soap

Coronation Street fans are convinced they know how Eileen Grimshaw is going to leave the soap, following the news that Sue Cleaver has quit the ITV show after 25 years

Coronation Street legend Sue Cleaver has revealed the reason why she is set to leave Coronation Street after 25 years. The Loose Women star, 61, has played the outspoken Eileen Grimshaw in the ITV soap since 2000.

Coronation Street fans are convinced they know how Eileen Grimshaw will be leaving the cobbles after it was announced Sue Cleaver has quit the soap.

CORONATION Street star Sue Cleaver is leaving the ITV soap after 25 years. The show stalwart, 61, who plays no-nonsense Eileen Grimshaw, plans to pursue new acting projects — and has already begun

Sue Cleaver, who plays the popular Coronation Street matriarch Eileen Grimshaw, has announced that she is leaving the soap after 25 years. In a statement shared on Saturday (4 January), the 61-year-old actor and regular Loose Women panellist announced she is exiting the show to pursue new acting projects this spring.

Colson Smith, the ITV soap star, has moved to tease his exit storyline after Coronation Street bosses swung the axe and canned him from the show.

Coronation Street's Eileen Grimshaw is set to leave the soap after more than two decades - now fans have 'worked out' her heartbreaking exit storyline