Coronation Street star reveals ‘special’ thing he’ll miss most as major legend exits

Ben Price has revealed what helium volition miss astir erstwhile Coronation Street co-star Helen Worth leaves the ITV soap. 

The histrion announced she’d discontinue the cobbles aft 50 years backmost successful June, with her quality Gail Platt’s on-screen departure acceptable to aerial successful the coming weeks. 

Her TV lad Ben – who plays Nick Tilsley – spoke astir her exit connected his On the Sofa podcast helium hosts with on-screen member Jack P. Shepherd (aka David Platt) and co-star Colson Smith (aka Craig Tinker).

After Colson asked astir the ‘one circumstantial happening he’d miss most’, Ben replied: ‘I deliberation for me, it’s that line, that enactment of “oh you’re successful the Platts”. Helen and Sue [Nicholls, who plays Gail’s mum Audrey Roberts], they springiness you that feeling that erstwhile you commencement the country and you’re with them, you’re successful Corrie history, you benignant of miss that.’

He continued: ‘Look, it’s going to beryllium fine, it’s going to beryllium a spot antithetic and we’ve each been successful Corrie agelong capable to marque that again.

‘But, determination is thing beauteous peculiar astir being with idiosyncratic who has been determination for 50 years. It’s beauteous special, you’re not going to get that successful galore walks of life.’

Speaking astir her departure successful June, Helen shared: ‘This twelvemonth felt similar the cleanable clip to permission the amusement aft celebrating 50 years successful the astir fantastic occupation connected the astir fantastic thoroughfare successful the world. I made the determination astatine the commencement of the twelvemonth and spoke to the producers, who were precise benignant and understanding.’

Jack antecedently admitted helium mistook a telephone from Helen to pass him of her determination to permission arsenic a ‘butt dial’. 

 ‘It was possibly this clip past year. It was astir November clip and she rang america and I thought, that’s a butt dial. So I blanked it!

‘I past got a substance from Tina [O’Brien] saying, “Helen’s trying to ringing you”, truthful I thought this is bad. I phoned her and she said, hello, hello, I’ve told…she’d told Ben, she’d told Tina, truthful I instantly cognize what’s happening, she’s off! And she says, I’m going, I’ve decided to leave, and she feels arsenic though she’s done her time.

‘So I said great, fantastic, you know, you’ve earned it! I mean bloody hell, 50 years successful immoderate gig is simply a agelong time.’

Gail’s exit communicative was primitively set to impact her reuniting with her erstwhile hubby Martin Platt, but aft Sean Wilson near the amusement aft filming had started, the communicative was rapidly redrafted and John Thomson was brought backmost arsenic Jesse Chadwick.

The mates look set to necktie the knot implicit the Christmas period, earlier leaving the cobbles unneurotic earlier the extremity of the year. 

Coronation Street airs Monday, Wednesday and Friday astatine 8pm connected ITV1 and from 7am connected ITVX. On the Sofa with Colson, Jack and Ben is disposable connected podcast platforms.

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