Coronation Street favourite Channique Sterling-Brown is leaving the ITV soap.
The actress, 28, has played solicitor Dee-Dee Bailey since 2022.
Daughter of Ed (Trevor Michael Georges) and Aggie (Lorna Laidlaw), the character has been at the centre of several huge storylines during the last three years.
Metro understands that Channique has decided to call time on the cobbles to pursue new projects, with her departure expected in the coming months.
A source told Express.co.uk: ‘[Leaving party] posters are up around the Corrie set behind the scenes, it is common knowledge that Channique is going, and cast have been informed.’
Dee-Dee’s Coronation Street highlights
Initially supporting her father through his gambling addiction, her troubles deepened when she met the dashing Joel Deering (Calum Lill), who, on face value, seemed like a genuinely good fella.
It later transpired to viewers that he had been grooming vulnerable teenager Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton), later impregnating and assaulting her.
Poor Lauren vanished for months, and in the meantime, Dee-Dee’s suspicions began to rise.
The truth came out, with Lauren smashing him around the head with a rock and leaving his body in a river.
After his death, Dee-Dee discovered she was expecting his child, but felt unable to bond with the infant and decided to let her brother James (Jason Callender) adopt baby Laila.
She struggled to keep a distance from her daughter, and the two are now co-parenting her.
What’s still to come for Dee-Dee?
More recent stories have seen Dee-Dee rebuild her life in the wake of Joel’s twisted behaviour, meeting newcomer Ollie (Raphael Akuwudike).
As we know, nobody comes to Weatherfield without a secret, and Ollie has already began to make some waves with some interesting questions towards one of the other locals.
In a conversation with Toyah Habeeb (Georgia Taylor), he asked her about how her unusual name came about.
She explained that mum Janice (Vicky Entwistle) had been a fan of Toyah Wilcox, though she admitted that she was nothing like her namesake.
What is his game?
Who has left Coronation Street in 2025?
Channique joins a long line of cast changes to hit Corrie over the last year.
So far we’ve seen actors Shelley King, Paddy Bever, Sally Ann Matthews, Charlotte Jordan, Jack Carroll, Colson Smith and Adam Hussain all wave farewell.
They join long-serving Helen Worth and Sue Cleaver, who played Gail Platt and Eileen Grimshaw, in the list of departees.
Daniel Brocklebank is also expected to bow out of his Billy Mayhew role, as fan-favourite Catherine Tyldesley reprises her Eva Price part, and is about to step into the Rovers Return as the new landlady.