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LONG-RUNNING SOAP Coronation Street will bid farewell to Gail Platt at the end of the year.
Actress Helen Worth will celebrate her golden anniversary on the ITV show next month, having first appeared on-screen as Gail Platt on 29 July, 1974.
In addition to celebrating 50 years on the famous show next month, Worth will also begin filming her exit story from the soap.
The scenes will be filmed next month but will hit TV screens at the end of the year.
In a statement today, a Coronation Street spokesperson said that Gail’s exit will be a “major storyline for the Platt family”.
It added that the final scene will be “emotional”.
Helen Worth to Bid Farewell After 50 Years on the Cobbles.
— Coronation Street (@itvcorrie) June 5, 2024
Read more:https://t.co/rER6oJrVlJ#Corrie pic.twitter.com/mFcbNh8H0P
Worth noted that her golden anniversary on the show felt like the “perfect time to leave” and remarked that she has had the “most wonderful job on the most wonderful street in the world”.
She said she made the decision at the start of the year and “spoke to the producers who were very kind and understanding”.
Worth added that she has been “truly blessed to have been given the most incredible scripts week in week out, and to have worked with fantastic actors, directors and a brilliant crew”.
“The past 50 years have flown by and I don’t think the fact that I am leaving has quite sunk in yet,” said Worth.
Worth’s character has been at the centre of some of the show’s most iconic and controversial storylines, including one in which Gail Platt and her children were kidnapped and driven into a canal by her serial killer husband.
Gail Platt has also been married six times on the show, the soap’s most married female character.
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I didn’t even know she was still going… wow! Now that is what you call dedication. Fair play to her!
@Daniel Skelton: That’s nothing compared to the Limerick Actor Willie O’Dea who has provided great entertainment and drama to the great people of the mid west coming up now
on 50 years or so it seems.
She opened Nutgrove Shopping Centre , there ya go , fact of the day .
@Ray Buckley: Nutgrove Shopping Centre was the first McDonald’s drive thru restaurant in Europe. Another fact for you.
50 years on the soap? She must be clean as a whistle!
Saw her in a forest in Kerry once.
@Don Johnson: Saw her at an exhibition in Earl’s Court in London looking despondent and unrecognised.
She is lovely little thing and brings back memories of the gerbil i used to have as a pet, Gary.
ET’s. Ma
Good Riddance &bring the rest of em with ya
@John O brien: you seem in good form today John
@John O brien: do you want salt with that chip on your shoulder
@John O brien: I was always told if you can’t say anything nice say nothing at all it only shows your mentality
@David Harries: so if it’s not nice say nothing …the truth sometimes is not nice ..should we not tell the truth either cause it’s not nice?!
@damien leen: those who delight in being brutally honest frequently value the brutality far more than the honesty.
@Setanta O’Toole: Jesus wept!
@brian madden: I’m in great form thanks
@John O brien:
If you have nothing decent to say about anyone, whoever they may be, I for one would suggest that you keep thoughts and comments like that to yourself
@damien leen: “telling the truth” isn’t an issue when it’s about who likes or doesn’t like one television soap opera.
Some going. Fair play to her.
How many champions leagues is that now
Luka Modrić just signed a 1 year contract
She’s gone full-time with the mutant ninja turtles!
Pleae kill me
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