Since she joined the cast of Coronation Street back in 2000, Sue Cleaver has become a familiar face on screens. As Eileen Grimshaw, Sue has been involved in some dramatic storylines, including one which saw her character marry serial killer Pat Phelan.
However, Sue recently took some time away from the show and turned her attention to the stage when she joined the cast of Sister Act on its UK tour where she played Mother Superior.
“I’ve finished Sister Act but I’m missing everybody hugely. I had the most wonderful time doing that show – I hadn’t been on stage for 30 years,” she tells OK!. “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.”
Sue Cleaver joined Coronation Street in 2000 where she began the role of Eileen Grimshaw
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She adds: “I had the most amazing time. We played to full houses everywhere and had standing ovations. I will miss everybody hugely but you’ve got to finish one thing to start the next thing.”
Having made her return to the stage for the first time in three decades, Sue, 60, revealed that there could be more to come, though added that viewers can expect to see her on the Coronation Street cobbles very soon.
“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,” she says.
Sue recently performed in Sister Act in what was her first time on stage in three decades
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“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.”
The news of Sue’s return to the cobbles comes as she has opened up about Type 2 diabetes and how Dexcom’s new Dexcom ONE+ – a CGM device that can easily track real-time glucose readings to help improve diabetes management – has helped after its State of Type 2 Report found that nearly half (49%) of individuals with Type 2 diabetes were unaware of the condition’s effects when diagnosed.
Sue has revealed when she’ll be heading back to Coronation Street
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“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 it,” the I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! star explains.
“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. 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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