On Christmas night, Coronation Street fans watched in suspense as her much-loved character Gail left once and for all.
Gail Platt actress Helen Worth was in floods of tears on her last day on set of Coronation Street after 50 years on the ITV soap.
While some viewers were worried that Gail would meet a sad end as super-villian Richard Hillman made an epic return, in the end, Gail got her happy ending - and actress Helen couldn't be happier for the character who she played for over 50 years, the Mirror reports.READ MORE: 'Astonishing' Gavin & Stacey viewing figures as fans praise Christmas special
The new video, released by ITV bosses. shows the exact moment the director yelled 'cut' on Helen's final scenes as her on-screen family - the Platt's - gathered around her in the home that she lived for so long. The actress gushed: "The reason I've been here all these years, and it's a lot of years - It's more than I can think about really, Is because of all of you people that have been here for, well, some of you for all of those fifty years and others for half of that time."
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