Corrie star Ellie Leach looks stunning as she celebrates her 21st birthday

Coronation Street star Ellie Leach was the belle of the ball as she turned 21.

The Corrie favourite who plays Faye Windass dazzled in a gorgeous iridescent strapless mini dress that came with its own train.

Her former co-star Lucy Fallon shared a picture of her friend from the bash on Instagram with the words 'a birthday queen.'

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Another pal Maisie McDermott said: "My stunning birthday girl."

And Ellie's boyfriend Reagan Pettman proudly shared a snap with love heart eyes emojis and the caption 'something else.'

During her decade in the nation's longest-running soap the actress has tackled many harrowing storylines including her chracter falling pregnant when she was 12.

In 2020 she was sexually assaulted by evil Ray Crosby and last year she went to prison for attacking Adam Barlow in a case of mistaken idenity thinking that he was her sleazy boss.

She's currently at the centre of the drama as part of a death cover-up storyline after after she knocked down an elderly man called Ted while on a driving lesson with friend Emma Brooker, who was still tipsy from New Year's Eve.

The girls took the pensioner home after he insisted that he was fine, but when they later went to check on him they found him dead in his armchair.

Fearing that Faye could be heading back to prison, the girls cleaned up his flat to remove traces of their visit and left him for his grandson to find.

Faye's policeman boyfriend Craig Tinker, played by Colson Smith, got dragged into the drama after she came clean to him and he decided to quit the force to protect her.

Ellie's character arrived as the adopted daughter of Anna Windass.

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