Charlie De Melo has reportedly quit Coronation Street after five years.
The actor is best known to fans of the ITV soap for playing lawyer Imran Habeeb.
It comes amid theories from fans that Imran's one-night stand could be exposed and result in a love child.
Imran slept with grieving mother Abi Franklin following the end of her son Seb's murder trial last year.
The pair have both kept their secret liaison from their partners - but their other half do both know that they have cheated.
However, Imran's girlfriend Toyah Battersby proposed as she wants them to become an official unit before adopting their foster daughter, Elsie.
According to The Sun, Charlie is set to head off to pastures new and look for new challenges away from the Corrie cobbles.
The publication reports a source close to the soap actor said that while Charlie had "loved his time on the soap" he believes that now "the time is right to try new things."
They continued to say that Charlie will "cherish" the time he has spent in Corrie but he is "hugely talented and very ambitious and wants to see what else is out there."
Charlie is expected to film his final scenes in coming weeks, with the ending airing later in summer.
The Manchester Evening News has contacted Coronation Street for comment.
The news also comes after Corrie's executive producer teased what is to come for the character.
Speaking ahead of the New Year in December, Iain MacLeod told press: "Imran is forced to look in a mirror and consider himself and the man who he is. He could go to the dark side.
"It’s a big buried bomb just waiting for people to end up in the blast radius. It won’t be for months but the way it happens is very surprising.
"It’s big and shocking and it’s the last thing you’d expect from something this way. It turns into a gobsmacking cataclysm.
"It’s intimate but the shock will make people fall off their chairs. It’s no secret that Sally is a fantastic actor, rightly awarded, so it’s exciting to keep her and draw in Mike, Georgie, Charlie. Smack them in the middle of something colossal."
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