Coronation Street fans stunned as Eileen Grimshaw looks unrecognisable – asking ‘have they recast her?!’
CORONATION Street fans have been left stunned as Eileen Grimshaw looked unrecognisable.
The beloved character, who is played by Sue Cleaver, has been on the cobbles for 23 years.
She is known for her blonde locks but recently unveiled a dramatic transformation.
During Monday night’s episode of Coronation Street Eileen appeared on screen.
She was in the Rovers Return when she debuted her new pixie haircut.
Immediately she grabbed fans’ attention as they took to social media to comment on her locks.
One said: “I can’t stop thinking about eileen’s stunning new weave. we need her in every scene NOW. #Corrie.”
A second wrote: “I’m not even watching Corrie properly because I’m trying to process Eileen’s new look #Corrie.”
“Good lord! Have they recast Eileen,” joked another fan.
While a fourth commented: “Genuinely can’t believe the highlight of #Corrie tonight has been Eileen who we’ve seen for about 5 seconds.”
The 59-year-old previously showed off her new style on Instagram and had friends and fans raving.
Sue, who was wearing a pale pink Reiss suit, teased she was working on a secret TV project as she thanked her makeup artist.
But in real life, Sue revealed she no longer drinks at all and says that hanging out in pubs is her idea of “hell”.
The actress said: “I went on HRT about a year and a half ago and realised I should have done that about five years ago.
“I was walking around in a bit of a fog and then I literally made some massive changes.
“In the pandemic we all over-did things. I spent a lot of it drinking lots of lovely red wine and I put on a lot of weight doing it.
“Then I did dry January and I thought: ‘I wonder what life would be like if I stopped completely?’”
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