Coronation Street’s Sue Cleaver reveals secret behind her remarkable weight loss as she signs up to huge new show

CORONATION Street legend Sue Cleaver has opened up about the real way she managed to lose three stone as part of her epic body transformation.

Sue, famed for her role as Eileen Grimshaw on the ITV soap, has overhauled her lifestyle in order to shed the pounds.

Although the star has attempted many different ways to lose all the weight, she confessed that cutting out one certain thing had managed to make all of the difference.

Speaking to Woman magazine, Sue revealed that giving up drinking had vastly helped her to slim down.

It means that she had lost a stone and a half before heading Down Under for I’m A Celebrity in 2022 where she managed to lose even more.

Sue revealed that it was partaking in Dry January that set her off on her new no-alcohol rule.

The actress told the publication: “I lost 18lb. I’d already lost a stone and a half that year, because I gave up booze.

“I did Dry January and then I decided to carry on. I know it sounds ridiculous at my age, but I never really thought about how many calories I was consuming when I was having a glass of red wine while cooking dinner and then a couple more while eating it.

“If you’re doing that four or five nights a week, that’s a lot of calories.”

Sue further opened up about her drinking habits to her new Loose Women co-star Kaye Adams on her How To Be 60 podcast.

She admitted that during lockdown she was “over-doing” it by having multiple glasses of wine a night.

The actress said: “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?'”

In the wake of her remarkable weight loss, Sue has taken a back seat on the Corrie cobbles in order to take up residence on the Loose Women panel.

She has been making an increasing number of appearance as a weekly panellist on the popular ITV daytime programme.

It was on the show that she first discusses her weight loss where she also said that some health issues had played a part in her fluctuating size.

She told her co-stars: “My weight has been up, down, all over the place… a lot of it was helped by red wine.

“At the minute, I am a lot thinner but I’ve been ill this year, and for some reason my metabolism just seems to have changed.”