Coronation Street’s Gail Platt’s exit comes with a massive twist reveals soap’s new boss Kate Brook

NEW Coronation Street brag Kate Brooks has teased a large twist for Christmas arsenic Gail Platt leaves the cobbles aft 50 years.

The shaper - who joined Corrie from Emmerdale earlier this twelvemonth - has promised a ‘very lively’ exit for Gail aft she discovers that her household person betrayed her.

Viewers cognize Gail is acceptable to wed aged occurrence Jesse successful what volition beryllium her seventh wedding.

Speaking to The Sun and different media, Kate said: “It’s precise fun, it’s a precise lively Christmas connected the street, tons of bombshells are dropped. 

“Obviously, this is acceptable against Gail’s wedding, whether she goes done with that oregon not, I cannot archer anything. 

“But this is simply a communicative with the Platts astatine the bosom of it, it’s truly festive, fundamentally it’s a communicative astir household and however secrets interaction and implode connected a family, truthful there’s a batch of betrayals, tons of secrets are exposed during this occurrence and it volition similar classical Corrie with a spot of a twist.”

And to support the twist, The Sun tin uncover that bosses volition not enactment the occurrence connected ITVX earlier its evening broadcast.

Kate added: “I deliberation we’re each successful request of a spot of escapism astatine the infinitesimal and we’ve had rather a acheronian but superb fewer months connected the cobbles. 

“The Christmas play for america is each astir trying to pat into the household dynamics of the Platts, what makes radical tick and yet trying to marque definite that we springiness glorious Gail the exit that she deserves. 

“She’s been specified an icon connected the thoroughfare for specified a agelong clip - 50 years of television, which is astonishing - and we can’t archer a communicative connected Christmas Day astir her exit without it feeling and being steeped successful nostalgia. 

“And there’s tons of nostalgia successful this occurrence and hopefully radical volition beryllium crying, they’ll beryllium laughing, there’ll beryllium gasps arsenic radical watching it go, ‘Oh my goodness, that’s conscionable happened’. 

“Old schoolhouse Corrie but conscionable with a existent modern twist and I deliberation radical volition truly really bask it.”

Kate added: “You person Gail, who’s going to permission the street, successful the run-up to Christmas she has recovered retired that immoderate of her nearest and dearest person perfectly betrayed her, she doesn’t cognize who to believe, adjacent her beloved aged mum has benignant of lied to her and she truly struggles with that and she’s a spot similar ‘I don’t cognize whether I privation this, I don’t cognize whether I privation to beryllium with Jesse’.

“She contemplates and questions everything and each determination she’s ever made, and evidently Gail has had a truly colourful past truthful that’s a large portion of that Christmas Day episode. 

“But she is determination and she is going to permission the thoroughfare and it’s going to beryllium truthful fantastic and sad.  

“I’m devastated that Gail’s leaving, it truly devastates maine cos she’s truthful iconic and I deliberation that statement gets bandied astir rather readily but it’s Gail, 50 years she’s been connected the street, we’ve watched her grow. 

“It was truly important to marque definite that her exit, her departure, felt truly fitting and successful keeping with who she is arsenic a character. 

“But she is determination and you’ve got each these antithetic bombs going disconnected astir her and she’s oblivious to them each and it’s wonderful. So yeah, it’s a large Christmas.”

And she said: “I privation radical to beryllium down Xmas nighttime with a afloat tummy, ticker this episode, ticker Christmas Day and spell ‘You cognize what, that is precisely what I needed’ truthful that’s what Corrie is this Christmas.”