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Helen Worth to film final scenes as Coronation Street's Gail THIS WEEK - as soap teases character's departure and shocks fans by changing iconic theme tune

This week one actress will film her final scenes as a beloved character, bidding farewell to the cobbles of Coronation Street after a staggering 50-year career.

But this week actress Helen Worth will film her final scenes as the beloved character, bidding farewell to the cobbles of Coronation Street after a staggering 50-year career. In her final series Gail finds love again but this time with a man 18 years younger after a surprise return from Jesse Chadwick, played by John Thomson, 55. Ms Worth’s departure is not the only change on the cobbles as the soap altered its iconic theme tune last night to the sound of a flatlining heartbeat following Gail Platt’s cardiac arrest.

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