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Jessica Sansome

Real life of ITV Coronation Street's Eileen Grimshaw actress Sue Cleaver - incredible reunion with birth mum, ill health and rarely seen son

Sue Cleaver is famed for being on Coronation Street, however, she recently showed her real side during a stint on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here. The actress has spent more than 22 years playing Weatherfield resident Eileen Grimshaw.

The ITV soap character made her debut in the role in May 2000, with her first scenes alongside Emmerdale star Chris Bisson, who played Vikram Desai. However, it wasn’t her first role in the ITV soap as five years before she had played a hospital nurse who was present when Daniel Osbourne was born.

But away from the cobbles, fans have recently learned more about Sue, who was born in Watford, thanks to her appearance Down Under on I'm A Celeb with the likes of Boy George, Mike Tindall, Charlene White, Matt Hancock and eventual winner, Jill Scott.

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