she's back!
Coronation Street legend secretly returns to set just months after sparking fears she’s quit soap after 24 years
Sue recently opened up about her Type 2 diabetes diagnosis
A CORONATION Street star was spotted on the set after sparking fears that she'd quit.
The actress has been on the soap 24 years and has become a fan favourite in that time.
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Sue Cleaver first stepped into Eileen Grimshaw's shoes in 2000.
But recently she left Corrie fans worried she was moving away from the cobbles after taking a break.
However, it's good news for viewers after she was spotted on the set.
Celebrity autograph collector Shaun Eley snapped Sue as she headed into the studio.
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"Me and Sue Cleaver," he wrote in the caption.
Sharon Hall, another fan, also took a quick selfie with Sue.
Sue decided to take a break from the cobbles to focus on theatre work, namely touring in Sister Act the Musical.
Speaking to the star revealed: "I’ve finished Sister Act but I’m missing everybody hugely.
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“I had the most wonderful time doing that show – I hadn’t been on stage for 30 years. I just thought ‘I’m going to embrace this, I’m going to do it’.
“Even though I was scared and even though it was the unknown, I thought ‘nope, this is fabulous. Let’s just go for this’ and I did."
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Sue added she had the “most amazing time” in the production, but acknowledged “ you’ve got to finish one thing to start the next thing."
Although she's returned to Corrie, she certainly isn’t ruling out another return to the stage.
She said: "I definitely think I'll do more on stage. The stage is where I started. Theatre’s always been my first love. Now I’ve been back, that’s not going to be my last.
“But I’ll be heading back to Coronation Street soon. I'm having a little holiday and then I will be heading back into Corrie in July so they can see me back there. I will be back."
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Sue recently opened up about her Type 2 diabetes diagnosis and how she was scared at first.
She previously said: "I always say that I don't live with diabetes, diabetes lives with me.
"So I live my life as anyone else. I have a busy life and I get on with
Sue added: "When I was first diagnosed, it scared me. Then since I started using Dexcom, it took away all of the guessing, all of the unknown.
“I’ve always had my HbA1c and I’ve always been under a consultant and monitored everything, but it’s just taken a bit of pressure off.
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"I can see what my averages are.
"I can see what my patterns are. It's taken away a lot of that worry for me."
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