{"id":52712,"date":"2024-06-05T14:06:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2051864"},"modified":"2024-06-05T16:53:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T14:53:38","slug":"coronation-streets-helen-worth-to-leave-soap-after-50-years-as-gail-rodwell","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/coronation-streets-helen-worth-to-leave-soap-after-50-years-as-gail-rodwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Street\u2019s Helen Worth to leave soap after 50 years as Gail Rodwell"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the end of an era. <\/p>

By Helen Daly\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 05 June 2024 at 12:06 PM<\/p>

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Coronation Street icon Helen Worth will be leaving her role of Gail Rodwell this year.<\/p>\n

The Corrie legend has been on the soap for 50 years and will be bowing out as she celebrates her golden anniversary.<\/p>\n

Little is known of how Gail will leave the cobbles, but the ITV soap has confirmed she will start filming her exit story next month, with \u201cemotional scenes\u201d to be shown at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Speaking of her news, Worth said: \u201cThis 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe past 50 years have flown by and I don\u2019t think the fact that I am leaving has quite sunk in yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Helen Worth as Gail Potter when she first appeared in Coronation Street in 1974.<\/span><\/figcaption> ITV<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Executive Producer Iain Macleod said: \u201cThe words \u2018legend\u2019 and \u2018icon\u2019 get used a lot these days but they genuinely do apply to Gail and to Helen Worth. However, given her humility, I know Helen won\u2019t thank me for saying so!<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Helen\u2019s hands, Gail has been a huge part of Coronation Street for five decades and at the centre of some of the most memorable storylines \u2013 often deriving from her catastrophically bad luck in choosing husbands!<\/p>\n

\u201cHer ill-fated marriage to Richard Hillman was one of the most ground-breaking stories in soap history and cemented Gail\u2019s already established status as one of the Corrie greats. As the matriarch of the Platt clan, her affectionately prickly relationships with her kids and flighty mum Audrey epitomise what makes the show great: complicated family dynamics brought to life impeccably by Helen\u2019s dramatic and comedic chops, alongside those of her fictional clan.<\/p>\n

\u201cGail has given us countless hours of entertainment but it should also be said that Helen herself is a consummate professional and a thoroughly good egg. Everyone connected to the show will miss having her around the place just as much as the viewers will miss having her on their screens and we wish her all the very best for the future.\u201d<\/p>

Gail has been at the heart of some of Coronation Street\u2019s biggest storylines, none more so than her relationship with one of soap\u2019s most iconic villains, Richard Hillman (Brian Capron).<\/p>\n

She has always been a matriarchal rock to Sarah (Tina O\u2019Brien) and David (Jack P Shepherd) throughout their turmoils on the soap.<\/p>\n

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