Coronation Street’s Helen Worth reveals 10-year career before Gail Platt role
The actress bowed out of playing Weatherfield stalwart Gail Platt on Christmas Day 2025
Helen Worth playing Gail Platt in Coronation Street(Image: ITV)
Helen Worth’s former Coronation Street co-stars have been heard speaking about her 10-year career before she landed the role of Gail Platt, which saw her on the long-running show for five decades.
As fans of the ITV soap know, the actress bowed out of playing Weatherfield stalwart Gail Platt on Christmas Day 2025, 50 years after she made her debut in 1984, then as Gail Potter.
Speaking of her exit at the time, Helen said: “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. I made the decision at the start of the year and spoke to the producers who were very kind and understanding.
“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.”
Helen’s final scenes as Gail saw the iconic character marry Jesse Chadwick and share some emotional moments with her family, particularly her children – David, Sarah and Nick – before she was seen leaving the cobbles for a new life in France.
And the soap icon recently headed back to the city where she made her name, taking to the stage at the city’s Hope Mill Theatre announced for a a very special ‘An Evening With’ Helen, hosted by fellow Wetherfield legend Julie Hesmondhalgh, who Corrie fans will remember for playing the much-loved Hayley Cropper.
Helen was reunited with her on-screen family(Image: Tina O’Brien Instagram)
As well as fans in the audience, Helen was supported by her former co-stars, Jack P Shepherd and Tina O’Brien, who are famed for playing Gail’s children, David and Sarah Platt, as well as Lucy Fallon and Julia Goulding, who play Bethany and Shona Platt in the long-running show.
While Ben Price, who plays Nick Tilsley, should have been in attendance, traffic on the motorway meant that he only arrived in time for the after-show dinner for the on-screen family. Chatting about the event on his podcast, which he co-hosts with Jack and Colson Smith, Jack said: “[It was] really good. She was brilliant. Bless her. We met her up uh before we uh went in a dressing room. Me, Tina, Lucy, and Julia.”
Ben said: “She was a bit nervous, wasn’t she?” to which Jack shared: “She was really nervous. And I was like, ‘you don’t have to. It’s literally you’re going to know all the answers!'”
Colson then asked: “Was there anything that you heard her say that you that I didn’t know?” to which Jack replied: “I didn’t know she was in the original cast for Sound of Music in the West End. I think she played the littlest kid and she was 12. I knew she was in Oliver…” as Ben interjected: “Because that’s where she met Elaine Paige, who’s still her friend. So she was on the stage very early.”
The pair spoke about how she left home for London at a young age, before joining Corrie in her early twenties. Ben said: “She’d had a whole career. She’d had like nine/10 year career.”
