Coronation Street’s Sue Cleaver will suddenly look ‘a lot thinner’ on screen says co-star as she returns to soap

CORONATION Street star Sue Cleaver has returned to the soap’s set after dramatically losing weight in the I’m A Celeb jungle.

The Eileen Grimshaw actress, 59, has had weeks off to film the ITV hit in Australia.

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But viewers might notice that the character is slimmer than she was the last time they saw her – at least according to one of Sue’s Corrie co-stars.

Antony Cotton welcomed her back to set in a video, saying: “She’s back but she’s a lot, lot thinner. She’s half the woman – where is the other half?”

Sue objected: “It isn’t half the woman.” But the Sean Tully actor, 47, insisted: “Literally half the woman.”

The actress cosied up to her screen family as she returned to the Manchester set.

She posted a video on Instagram, saying: “I’m with my boys, where I should be. Happy days.”

The star later tucked into Christmas dinner, wearing a party hat alongside Antony and their co-stars.

Sue placed ninth on this year’s series of I’m A Celebrity, where stars are famously low on food rations and compete in trials to win meals.

The soap star managed to shed three stone and four dress sizes prior to taking part in I’m A Celeb.

However, after having to live off rice and beans – plus whatever her co-star could win in the Bushtucker Trials – for over 14 days, Sue has lost even more weight.

The series was eventually won by footballer Jill Scott, who saw off Owen Warner and Matt Hancock in the final.

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