Coronation Street fans were shocked to have only just discovered a mother and son duo appeared on the ITV soap. The cobbles has seen its fair share of real-life family members gracing Weatherfield including real life cousins Brooke Vincent and Ellie Leach, and brothers Rick Neelan (Greg Wood) and Tommy Orpington (Matt Milburn).

Coronation Street star Sue Cleaver, who plays cab switchboard operator Eileen Grimshaw on the cobbles, was adopted at ten days old - and her birth mum is now part of her life

Sue Cleaver did not know who her birth mother was until she had already started acting, making the bombshell discovery after a co-star said 'she's the spitting image of my wife'