GAIL Platt mightiness beryllium leaving Coronation Street but she's leaving her curse down arsenic our exclusive video and pictures show.
The cobbles fable - who is played by histrion Helen Worth successful the ITV soap - volition bow retired astatine Christmas aft 50 years connected the street.
Over that clip she has been plagued with misfortune with her archetypal hubby being murdered, her 2nd leaving her for a younger woman, and her 3rd trying to termination her full household arsenic good arsenic respective neighbours.
Her 4th and 5th some met untimely ends, and her children person each suffered akin losses and dramas.
And present the curse is acceptable to get adjacent worse arsenic the household location volition pain down successful a melodramatic stunt.
The Sun exclusively revealed however the soap was readying a immense stunt for the caller year with a devastating fire.
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Now our exclusive video and pictures amusement that it’s the Platt household who volition beryllium near successful tatters by the blaze.
Backstage pictures revealed that actors Lucy Fallon, Paddy Bever, Julia Goulding and Sally Carman were each filming for the immense episodes.
Local residents were warned up of clip astir the explosions and occurrence effects.
A root said: “New brag Kate Brooks is pulling retired each the stops to marque her people connected the cobbles - virtually successful this case.
“It’s a immense communicative with melodramatic consequences but is focussed connected the thoroughfare and the community.
“There’s going to beryllium a monolithic spectacle but astatine the bosom it’s a communicative astir the characters and however they header with what happens - due aged schoolhouse Corrie storytelling.”
Coronation Street fable quits soap aft 50 years
Soap bosses person adjacent been forced to pass section residents adjacent to the Manchester acceptable implicit the immense stunt and explosions.
Neighbours successful Salford Quays received warnings astir “loud explosions” and “fire effects” being utilized from contiguous until the aboriginal hours of Friday morning.
The warning, shared successful Salford Quays, revealed: “We person been fixed announcement and informing of large explosions and occurrence effects being utilized arsenic portion of a melodramatic film sprout astatine Salford Quays/Trafford Park.
“Coronation Street volition beryllium reconstructing a location occurrence connected Coronation Street Film Set, Trafford Wharf Road, Trafford Park.
“This volition beryllium from Monday 18th November until Thursday 21st November Between the hours of 16:00-02:30.
“Smoke and flames volition beryllium utilized astatine intermittent times during this play which whitethorn beryllium seen by the public.
“On Tuesday 19th November betwixt the hours of 22:00-23:00 they volition beryllium recreating an detonation this volition beryllium a abbreviated bust similar a firework going disconnected with a sound of up to 100db.
Biggest soap stunts
Soaps are nary alien to melodramatic stunts successful the storylines. Not lone bash these moments make a spectacle for viewers, they besides fundamentally alteration characters' lives.
Here is simply a look astatine immoderate of the biggest soap stunts from implicit the years.
CORONATION STREET
- Tram crash (2010): The ITV soap marked its 50th day with a aggravated tram clang - and unrecorded occurrence to boot. Overall, the clang and its effects were broadcast crossed a week successful December 2010. Its resulting chaos saw regular characters Ashley Peacock (Steven Arnold) and Molly Dobbs (Vicky Binns) die.
- Richard Hillman tries to termination the Platts (2003): Of each the men unlucky-in-love Gail tied the knot with, Richard Hillman (Brian Capron) is astir apt the 1 she regrets astir successful hindsight. In 2003, murderer Richard tried to termination his step-family: archetypal by gassing them with car fumes and past driving Gail (Helen Worth), Sarah (Tina O'Brien), David (Jack P. Shepherd) and Bethany (Amy and Emily Walton) into a canal.
EASTENDERS
- Queen Vic fire (2010): In September 2010, EastEnders bid farewell to matriarch Peggy Mitchell (Barbara Windsor) arsenic a imperishable fixture connected the soap - she returned arsenic a impermanent earlier the character's decease successful 2016. In the build-up to her archetypal exit, Peggy had trapped ace cocaine-addicted lad Phil (Steve McFadden) successful the Queen Vic. However, helium escaped and acceptable the boozer connected fire.
- Bus crash (2017): In April 2017, a full of 11 Albert Square residents had their lives astatine risk successful a terrifying autobus crash. The stunt saw a treble decker autobus - the 764 to Barking - suffer power and clang done the Albert Square marketplace earlier hitting a low-level bridge. Notable passengers astatine the clip included Denise Fox (Diane Parish) and Louise Mitchell (Tilly Keeper).
EMMERDALE
- James Barton's death (2016): Interestingly astir James' (Bill Ward) decease was that it came successful a spiral of events. After woman Emma (Gillian Kearney) locked James up successful a jealous rage, helium escaped and they tussled connected a span implicit the bypass. Emma pushed him and James fell into traffic, successful crook causing a 12-vehicle heap up, As good arsenic James dying, cardinal characters including Ashley Thomas (John Middleton) and Rhona Goskirk (Zoe Henry) were injured.
“If for immoderate crushed they bash not get to bash this earlier 23:00hrs connected Tuesday 19th they volition bash it connected Wednesday 20th betwixt 17:00-19:00.”
The soap is presently filming for scenes into the caller year, meaning fans shouldn’t expect to spot the episodes for rather a while.