Legendary Corrie character Gail Platt will leave in a 'twist', says soap boss
Gail Platt's 'CoronationStreet' exit storyline will come with a "twist", the soap's boss has claimed.
Gail Platt's 'Coronation Street' exit storyline will come with a "twist".
The legendary soap character - who has been played by Helen Worth for more than 50 years - will be written out of the ITV serial over the festive period amid her wedding to Jesse Chadwick (John Thomson) and while it will be "classic 'Corrie'", producer Kate Brooks has teased that there will be something unexpected in store.
Kate told The Sun: "It’s very fun, it’s a very lively Christmas on the street, lots of bombshells are dropped.
“Obviously, this is set against Gail’s wedding, whether she goes through with that or not, I cannot tell anything.
“But this is a story with the Platts at the heart of it, it’s really festive, basically it’s a story about family and how secrets impact and implode on a family, so there’s a lot of betrayals, lots of secrets are exposed during this episode and it will like classic 'Corrie' with a bit of a twist."
Gail was married to Brian Tilsey (Christopher Quinten) from 1979 until 1987 and had Nick (Ben Price)and Sarah (Tina O'Brien) with him.
Although they remarried in 1988, he was stabbed to death shortly afterwards.
She then married nurse Martin Platt (Sean Wilson) in 1991 and had David (Jack P. Shepherd) with him but that marriage ended in 2001 when she discovered he had been having an affair with his colleague Rebecca Hopkins (Jill Halfpenny) whilst she was trying to come to terms with Sarah's teenage pregnancy.
In 2002, she married Richard Hillman (Brian Capron) but it all ended in disaster when he turned out to be a serial killer and drove Gail and her family into the canal.
Only Richard did not survive the ordeal and Gail later married Joe McIntyre (Reece Dinsdale) in 2010, but that was short-lived because he had tried to fake his own death as part of an insurance fraud and actually drowned.
Following a brief jail sentence in which she had wrongly been accused of his murder, Gail met Michael Rodwell (Les Dennis) when he burgled her home in 2014 and the pair ended up tying the knot in 2015 but he suffered a fatal heart attack just a year later.
Jesse was hastily written into Gail’s exit storyline following the sudden departure of Sean Wilson, who had been due to return as Martin but left suddenly over “personal reasons” just weeks after it was announced that he would be back on the Manchester-based serial.
Jesse first arrived on the Street as a children’s entertainer in 2008 and struck up a brief relationship with Gail’s arch nemesis Eileen Grimshaw (Sue Cleaver) but he left in 2010.
