Sue Cleaver's astonishing reconciliation with birth mum as she quits Coronation Street after 25 years
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Coronation Street star Sue Cleaver met her birth mother under the most incredible circumstances. The Eileen Grimshaw actress - who confirmed this week she is leaving the ITV soap after an incredible 25-year run - was adopted when she was just ten days old.
Just days after ringing in the New Year, she admitted it's time for her to step back from the cobbles. Over the past 25 years, Sue's character has been at the centre of some of the biggest storylines, including her son, Todd, fathering a child in his teens with Sarah Louise Platt.
"I've had 25 privileged years of working on Coronation Street," Sue, 61, said in a statement shared with the media this week. She went on say "The door is still firmly open but as I reached my 60th year, I decided it was time to embrace change, look for new adventures and live fearlessly.".
Sue left GMB hosts Kate Garraway and Richard Madeley stunned over summer when she revealed the unlikely details of how she reunited with her birth family. Appearing on Good Morning Britain, she told how she was at drama school and auditioning when an actor told her "she was the double of his wife.".
She revealed the actor Michael Harper chatted to her at a dinner party and asked about her accent and from then he released she was his wife's daughter. Sue first spoke about the astonishing coincidence in an interview with the Mirror in September. In 1986, aged 23, Sue won a small part in the play Oedipus at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre. But when her co-star Michael N Harbour saw her, he went white. He declared to the stage manager: “Oh my God, she’s the spitting image of my wife when I met her.”.
