Coronation Street’s Gail has heart attack as exit approaches

Coronation Street’s Gail Rodwell played by Helen Worth is to person a bosom onslaught successful Wednesday’s episode.

The programme, which volition aerial connected ITV1 astatine 8pm, comes aft Worth, 73, announced she would beryllium leaving the soap aft 50 years successful the relation of Gail astatine the centre of the Platt family.

It volition spot Carla Connor archer Gail’s lad David and his spouse Shona that she has made connected connection connected their house.

A enactment breaks retired betwixt Jesse Chadwick, played by John Thomson who has precocious returned to the soap, Gail’s girl Sarah and David, arsenic Gail snaps and urges her children to permission the house.

Jesse returned to Weatherfield, aft having a little romance with Gail erstwhile the 2 were successful Thailand, and decided to sojourn her aft proceeding astir the challenges of Gail’s granddaughter Bethany’s Turkish cosmetic surgery.

As Jesse hunts for Gail’s granddaughter Lily’s bicycle pump helium is shocked by what helium finds, but his curiosity disappears erstwhile helium notices Gail breathing unsteadily and clutching her arm, and phones an ambulance.

David, Sarah and Nick, the oldest of Gail’s children, past get connected the thoroughfare arsenic she is taken distant successful an ambulance, and David and Sarah blasted themselves for starting the enactment with Jesse.

It comes aft Worth’s exit storyline was thrown into uncertainty aft Sean Wilson – who played her ex-husband Martin Platt – announced his departure from the soap for “personal reasons”.

The 59-year-old past appeared connected the cobbles six years agone and was acceptable to reappear connected surface this period arsenic portion of Worth’s departure.

When asked astir a imaginable caller replacement storyline, an ITV spokesperson said: “Sean Wilson has stepped down from filming for idiosyncratic reasons.”

The broadcaster said it would not beryllium commenting further connected the situation, aft antecedently saying Worth would permission pursuing a “major storyline for the Platt family”.