ITV Coronation Street star Elle Mulvaney looks gorgeous as she shows off new look in spring sunshine

Coronation Street star Elle Mulvaney has been flooded with compliments as she showed off her fresh look.

The actress, who has spent 10 years playing Amy Barlow in the ITV soap, took to Instagram over the weekend to show off her new do as she basked in the spring sunshine that covered Greater Manchester.

Elle, 19, opted for a chop, getting rid of some of the length from her usually straight, brunette locks while a touch of balayage seeing a lighter colour pulled through the front of her hair to frame her face.

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The teen's trio of snaps showed her new look freshly done, curly hair do in the salon chair before she headed outside for a sunny seflie and back home to Cheshire where she posed for another mirror selfie. showing her wearing a patterned black and white dress with puffed sleeves.

While Elle didn't leave much of a caption to her post to her thousands of followers, opting for a bunch of emojis instead, it didn't stop her Corrie co-stars from quickly hitting the comments section.

Jack James Ryan, who plays Amy's on-screen love interest and reformed bad boy Jacob Hay, commented: "Yeah, this bangs," alongside a flame emoji.

Kimberly Hart-Simpson, who returned to the soap earlier this month as Nicky Wheatly, wrote: "Why she so cutttteeeee," and also added a flame emoji.

Daisy Midgeley star Charlotte Jordan, who also underwent a bit of a change this weekend, also added: "She fresh she fetch."

And Elle's fans were just as complimentary.

"You look gorgeous," @nancyhovhanesian said.

@alijen74 wrote: "Beautiful hair!! Loving the colours too @ellejmulvaney!!"

"Absolutely love your new