SOAP SHOCK Coronation Street star confirms exit and reveals why she quit the soap after three years
CORONATION Street star Channique Sterling-Brown has confirmed her exit and revealed why she’s chosen to leave the soap.
The actress – who plays Dee Dee Bailey in the ITV soap – has been one of the show’s main stars in recent years with a host of major storylines.
And she’s now revealed that that’s part of the reason she’s decided to quit the show.
“I made the decision in spring, and it wasn’t a rash decision,” she told The Sun and other press.
“You know, I really took a couple of months from being offered my next year contract to actually even respond.
“I felt really torn, but I really just had, you know, the sense that it just felt like the time. I feel like I’ve been so privileged, and I’ve got to tell some great stories, and it’s been so wonderful.
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“And obviously I’m very led by my faith as well. So I just really took my time over it and prayed into it.
“And I think, yeah, I found a real sense that I had done what I’d come to do, if that makes sense, not that I ever knew exactly what it was, but it just felt like I had achieved what I was sent here to do, so it was time to be brave.”
Tearing up, Channique added: “It’s been brilliant. I don’t think I could have written it either, like, I think it’s been exactly what it was meant to be.
“I’ve learned so much. I’ve made amazing friends, and I just loved this character, like, I‘m gonna get all get emotional on you all now. I’ve loved playing her.
And she confirmed she has already filmed her final scenes on the soap – with it being an emotional day.
“It was so good,” she said.
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“Obviously it was an emotional day but it was lovely. I was in the building, and, you know, it was nice to be actually in the building on the last day and be on the street and stuff.
“And, yeah, it felt very nostalgic, everything, every corridor I was in it was like this is the last time I’m gonna be in the corridor, the last time I’m gonna be in The Rovers.
“So there’s a lot of that for me. But you know, it’s just one of those things, the price of love is loss, right?
“So I feel it because I love being here, and that’s great, it’s not like I can’t wait to get out of here.”