Taxi please! (Picture: ITV)

They’re dropping like flies! Another well known face is set to depart Corrie in coming months.

Hot on the heels of the announcements that Hayley Tamaddon and Alison King are leaving the ITV soap, it has been confirmed that Craig Charles is to follow them out of the door.

Craig has played cabbie Lloyd for 10 years but will bow out in an exit storyline in September. Lloyd’s girlfriend, Andrea, is due to exit the show in the same month, as part of a dramatic plot during the live episode.

It has not been confirmed how either character will leave but it is inevitable that their departure stories will be connected.




Craig is leaving to concentrate on Red Dwarf, which has been commissioned for another two further series.

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Steve will have to wave goodbye to his best mate (Picture: ITV)

Speaking of his decision, the actor said: ‘I have had an absolutely fantastic ten years on Coronation Street and I will be very sad to leave.’

He added that he would ‘love to return in the future’.

Also set to exit the show in coming months are characters Kal Nazir, Maddie Heath and Julie Carp.

Will there be anyone left!?

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