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<\/p>\nCORONATION Street star Sue Cleaver has revealed the secret behind her incredible weight loss. <\/p>\n
The ITV soap actress opened up about giving up booze after drinking \u201clots of red wine\u201d during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n
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Sue, 59, is best known for playing Eileen Grimshaw, who spends much of her time at the bar of the Rovers Return. <\/p>\n
But in real life, the star revealed she no longer drinks at all and says that hanging out in pubs is her idea of \u201chell\u201d.<\/p>\n
Sue, who stunned fans with her recent weight loss, said she "stopped completely" as part of a massive diet change. <\/p>\n
The actress said: \u201cI went on HRT about a year and a half ago and realised I should have done that about five years ago. <\/p>\n
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"I was walking around in a bit of a fog and then I literally made some massive changes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the pandemic we all over-did things. I spent a lot of it drinking lots of lovely red wine<\/span> and I put on a lot of weight doing it. <\/p>\n "Then I did dry January and I thought: \u2018I wonder what life would be like if I stopped completely?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Sue, who is married to TV lighting technician Brian Owen, admitted that she and her husband had very different views on drinking.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Speaking on the Kaye Adams How to be 60 podcast she explained: \u201cBrian and I are different; we like very different things. Brian loves the pub culture; he loves going for a pint.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was my idea of hell when I drank and especially now that I don\u2019t drink, but we\u2019ve sorted that. <\/p>\n "He bobs out on the way home and has a couple of pints and we have dinner a bit later. He\u2019s a real party animal and I\u2019m not.\u201d<\/p>\n The actress, who has played Coronation Street\u2019s straight-talking Eileen for the past 23 years, took part in I\u2019m a Celebrity\u2026last year. <\/p>\n "But she revealed that despite her apparent confidence she struggles with shyness and hates walking into a room full of strangers.<\/p>\n She said: \u201cI come across as very strident and in a lot of ways I\u2019m very strong, but there\u2019s quite a vulnerable side to me and I can get quite scared by things.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m hugely shy. I still can\u2019t stand walking into a room of people on my own. <\/p>\n "I can\u2019t bear walking into a party. I feel awkward. When people come up to say hello there\u2019s that second before, where I go: \u2018oh, what do I say?\u2019<\/p>\n "No-one would ever guess that from me, we hide those parts of us, don\u2019t we?\u201d<\/p>\n The actress said that beginning therapy 13 years ago and her impending 60th<\/sup>\u00a0birthday had helped her become more confident.<\/p>\n She added: \u201cMy character has been a great thing to hide behind. Now I feel like I\u2019ve found my voice and I\u2019m comfortable with my voice and I think that\u2019s an age thing.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve always been really private about my life and I purposely kept myself under the radar and coming up to 60, something shifted in me that made me think: \u2018why am I doing this?\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cMy focus changed in life \u2013 where I was, what I was doing, what was important to me. And it\u2019s a big change.\u201d<\/p>\n Sue who has a grown-up son Elliot and is a grandmother, added: \u201cI want a few more adventures. It becomes your default to stay in this safe little world that you\u2019ve created and not step outside it and rock the boat.<\/p>\n "It\u2019s a different phase of my life. I\u2019m not responsible for anybody anymore and I feel a lot more confident."<\/p>\nMost read in TV<\/h2>\n
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