Coronation Street legend says emotional goodbye after 10 years

Yasmeen Metcalfe says goodbye to Alya Nazir in Coronation Street — Yasmeen Metcalfe is leaving Coronation Street after a decade (Picture: ITV)

Yasmeen Metcalfe (Shelley King) says an emotional goodbye to Coronation Street next week as the character bows out after 10 years.

Earlier this year, it was revealed actress Shelley King had quit her role on the ITV soap.

Yasmeen’s exit storyline gets underway on Friday when she announces to her granddaughter and business partner Alya Nazir (Sair Khan) that she’s been offered a job working for a charity in London and wants to sell her share in Speed Daal.

She manages to get a quick sale on the restaurant, as by next week, Yasmeen has already managed to offload her share to a familiar face.

Alya is surprised when the identity of her new business partner is revealed, as Yasmeen makes the final preparations for her big move.

On Monday, she shares an heartfelt goodbye with her granddaughter and makes her exit from Weatherfield after an eventual decade.

But for Alya, it looks like it will be far from plain sailing with her new co-owner.

Yasmeen Metcalfe hugs Alya Nazir as they say goodbye in Coronation Street — Yasmeen shares an emotional goodbye with granddaughter Alya Nazir (Picture: ITV)

She arrives at work the following day and is furious to discover that the menu has already been changed.

Ripping it up, Alya then attempts to stamp her authority on her new business partner – is this a taste of things to come?

Actress Shelley filmed her final scenes as Yasmeen back in December, with an insider telling Metro: ‘Shelley spoke to producers early last year and advised that after 10 years on the show and being involved in many major storylines during the past decade she had decided the time has come for her to explore other opportunities.

Yasmeen speaks to Alya in Coronation Street — Yasmeen has sold her share in Speed Daal (Picture: ITV)

‘Shelley is an accomplished stage and television actress and we fully understand her desire to take her career in another direction after 10 years playing the same role.’

During her time on the show, Shelley’s biggest storyline saw her pull in awards and critical acclaim as Yasmeen was coercively and physically abused by her vile husband Geoff Metcalfe (Ian Bartholomew).

Geoff died at the end of the plot and Yasmeen would later embark on a romance with Stu Carpenter (Bill Fellows), but he departed the street to take up a job offer in Germany last year.