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Kate Ford's Coronation Street exit – everything we know about Tracy Barlow's departure

Soap icon Kate Ford has been a staple on the Coronation Street cobbles for decades as Tracy Barlow, but is this the last fans will have seen of her as she bows out of the ITV soap?

For almost 40 years, tempestuous man-eater Tracy Barlow has been delighting audiences with her no-nonsense personality and often villainous antics, but fans have been left devastated this week as the character made the decision to leave Coronation Street for good. She's had some amazing storylines over the past two decades, which have cemented her status as one of the ITV soap's biggest baddies – from the time she tricked poor Roy Cropper into thinking they'd slept together, to when she tried to sell her own daughter Amy. Tracy Barlow left her husband Steve to pursue a romance with Tommy Orpington (Image: No credit) Read MoreRelated Articles Coronation Street's Lucy Fallon cruelly mum-shamed after sharing sweet snap of young son

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