| Gail Platt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Portrayed by | Helen Worth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1974–2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | Episode 1412 29 July 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | Episode 11451 25 December 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | H. V. Kershaw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Book appearances | Coronation Street: The Complete Saga Norman Bates with a Briefcase: The story of Richard Hillman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spin-off appearances | East Street (2010) Coronation Street: Text Santa Special (2013) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gail Chadwick (also Potter, Tilsley, Platt, Hillman, McIntyre and Rodwell) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, played by Helen Worth.[1] The character first appeared on-screen on 29 July 1974. Gail is the daughter of Audrey Roberts (Sue Nicholls) and Ted Page (Michael Byrne) and is the mother of Nick Tilsley (Ben Price), Sarah Platt (Tina O'Brien) and David Platt (Jack P. Shepherd) and has featured in some of the most controversial and high-profile storylines in the soap involving her family and her number of relationships — she is the soap's most married female character, having been married seven times (equal to Steve McDonald).[2] In June 2024, it was announced that Worth had decided to leave Coronation Street after 50 years. She made her on-screen departure from the soap in December of that year.
Gail's storylines include her marriage to Brian Tilsley (Christopher Quinten); her vicious feud with her mother-in-law Ivy Tilsley (Lynne Perrie); her affair with Brian's cousin Ian Latimer (Michael Loney); coping when Brian is killed in a knife attack; marrying the much younger Martin Platt (Sean Wilson); coping when her teenage daughter Sarah gets pregnant at the age of 13; divorcing Martin after he has an affair with his colleague Rebecca Hopkins (Jill Halfpenny); marrying Richard Hillman (Brian Capron), who she discovers is a serial killer; being kidnapped with Sarah, David and her granddaughter Bethany Platt (Emily/Amy Walton) by Richard and being driven into the canal by him; her feud with Eileen Grimshaw (Sue Cleaver) after her son Todd (Bruno Langley) comes out as gay while dating Sarah; throwing David out after he hides drugs in Bethany's toys; being pushed down the stairs by David after he discovers that she took Tina McIntyre (Michelle Keegan) to a private abortion clinic to terminate a pregnancy fathered by David; marrying Tina's father Joe McIntyre (Reece Dinsdale); being imprisoned for Joe's murder when his plan to fake his own death goes wrong; a relationship with Audrey's ex-partner Lewis Archer (Nigel Havers) only for him to con her out of all her money; a feud with David's wife Kylie Turner (Paula Lane); coping with the secret that Kylie slept with Nick and that her unborn baby may not be David's; marrying the burglar who robbed her home, Michael Rodwell (Les Dennis); keeping the secret that Andy Carver (Oliver Farnworth) is not actually Michael's son but an impostor; trying to help David come to terms with Kylie's death; locking David in the cellar of the Bistro after discovering that he is going to kill Kylie's murderer, Clayton; dealing with Bethany's involvement in a sex ring; discovering that David has fallen in love with Shona, the mother of Clayton.
- ^ Daran Little (2004). "Gail Platt". Corrie.Net. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
- ^ "Gail platt". ITV.com. ITV plc. 5 December 2011.[permanent dead link]