For the latest Coronation Street news and spoilers - sign up here Coronation Street’s Cherylee Houston is set to star opposite her real-life partner as he joins the soap.
Actor Toby Hadoke will play Fergus, a concerned neighbour of Izzy Armstrong, who has been played by Cherylee since 2010. Viewers will have noticed that Izzy spent much of the last year off-screen, only returning in April via FaceTime with ex-partner Gary Windass and Underworld boss Sarah Platt.
Izzy was off-screen for a while due to Cherylee having to shield during the coronavirus pandemic. Cherylee, 46, has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome which affects joints and leaves sufferers in chronic pain and was deemed vulnerable - a label Cherylee admitted to hating - by the government.
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