Coronation Street viewers spot show star in throwback episodes – six years before legendary character arrived on cobbles

EAGLE-EYED Coronation Street viewers person noticed that Sue Cleaver really made her archetypal quality connected the soap years earlier she joined the formed arsenic Eileen Grimshaw.

The histrion is presently champion known arsenic the thoroughfare car operator, who she has played since May 2000.

But portion watching backmost an occurrence of Corrie from 1994, 1 instrumentality spotted Sue successful Weatherfield successful a antithetic role.

They took to an online forum to excitedly constituent out: "Look who I conscionable found, it's Eileen playing a caregiver backmost successful July 1994!"

Other viewers flocked to the comments to explicit their surprise.

One idiosyncratic exclaimed: "Amazing! It looks similar her too!"

Another speculated: "When they brought the Baileys to the thoroughfare I was definite I'd seen Aggie successful the past arsenic a inheritance sewer astatine Underworld. I deliberation the amusement 'tests' actors archetypal earlier committing to them agelong term."

A 3rd complimented the actress, saying: "Sue Cleaver has aged similar good wine. She looks overmuch amended present and has mislaid a ton of weight."

Sue is presently connected a abbreviated interruption from Coronation Street arsenic she takes connected the West End, starring arsenic Mother Superior successful the signifier play of Sister Act.

To explicate Eileen's lack from the cobbles, amusement writers had her unreserved to her son's infirmary bedside successful Thailand aft helium suffered from a breached back.

Ahead of her instrumentality to the ITV soap, Sue has opened up astir a traumatic acquisition successful her teens.

She told the Mirror that erstwhile she was lone 17 she recovered herself large - with a overmuch older man's baby.

Sue said: "I looked for emotion and validation and acceptance successful each the incorrect places and my archetypal intersexual encounters were with idiosyncratic who was 4 oregon 5 years older than me.

"Nowadays that would conscionable beryllium unthinkable, but it wasn't astatine the time.

"It was no-one's responsibility and my parents, who were fantastic, lone ever tried to bash their champion for me, but similar a batch of teenagers I was lost.

"Nowadays determination is consciousness astir intelligence health, but erstwhile I was that age, we had nary conception of it and erstwhile I look back, I was precise unhappy. I'd ne'er privation to re-live that clip again."

Sue went connected to stock that she slept with a 35-year-old antheral who "took advantage" of her young age, and ended up getting an termination arsenic she didn't consciousness acceptable for motherhood.

She added: "I was successful implicit turmoil. I yet told my mum.

"My dada ne'er knew. I look backmost and deliberation I was truthful resilient. I conscionable got connected and I dealt with stuff."