To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Coronation Street have unveiled an emotional look back at Helen Worth’s 50 years as Gail Platt on the ITV soap.
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The video was originally compiled for the cast and crew, who gathered on the Viaduct Bistro set at the show’s production base in October to raise a glass to the legend. Corrie have assured us that there wasn’t a dry eye in the house – so you best get those tissues at the ready before you click play!.
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In June, Helen rocked the continuing drama world when she announced her departure. ‘This year felt like the perfect time to leave the show after celebrating 50 years in the most wonderful job on the most wonderful street in the world’ she said. ‘I made the decision at the start of the year and spoke to the producers who were very kind and understanding.
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‘I have 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.’.
The poignant video takes us on a trip down memory lane from her first scene in 1974 to the present day. Joining the show as a feisty teenager, she quickly became one of the show’s most iconic characters, and has so far married five of the street’s men.
