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Corrie's Gail Platt QUITS: Soap legend Helen Worth, 73, announces she is leaving show after 50 years


Coronation Street legend Helen Worth has announced she is leaving the soap.

Half a century after she first walked onto the cobbles, viewers will see Helen and Gail bid farewell to Weatherfield in a major storyline for the Platt family. In Helen's hands, Gail has been a huge part of Coronation Street for five decades and at the centre of some of the most memorable storylines - often deriving from her catastrophically bad luck in choosing husbands!' 'Her ill-fated marriage to Richard Hillman was one of the most ground-breaking stories in soap history and cemented Gail's already established status as one of the Corrie greats.'

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