{"id":563310,"date":"2026-07-22T22:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/563310\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T22:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:52:10","slug":"coronation-streets-sean-wilson-announces-marriage-to-girlfriend-in-surprise-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/563310\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Street’s Sean Wilson announces marriage to girlfriend in surprise wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coronation Street star Sean Wilson has announced that he’s tied the knot with his girlfriend Carol Hammond in a secret ceremony, after seven years of dating.<\/p>\n

The actor, who played Martin Platt in the ITV soap between 1985 and 2005, with an extra stint in 2018, shared the good news on his Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Guess what we did this weekend\u2026A July wedding,” he wrote, alongside a host of pictures from the big day, including the couple walking down the aisle and sharing a kiss.<\/p>\n

\"sean<\/p>\n

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“Brought me my gorgeous Mrs Wilson\u2026 We had a Gospel choir. And a church full of legendary (real) friends\u2026<\/p>\n

“If we did it all again, it couldn’t be better.”<\/p>\n

The actor turned cheesemaker wore a navy blue suit with a tan-orange waistcoat underneath, while his now-wife wore a traditional white dress with a lengthy train.<\/p>\n

After exchanging their vows and rings, they were escorted away in a vintage motor.<\/p>\n

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Wilson was supposed to return<\/a> to Corrie for one final outing as Martin as part of Gail’s exit storyline, which would have seen them rekindle their relationship and ride off into the sunset together.<\/p>\n

However, it was later reported that<\/a> he stepped away for “personal reasons”, before it was revealed that he had been dismissed due to a pending inquiry<\/a> into an alleged incident from 1997, which had become a police matter.<\/p>\n

The authorities cleared him and said there would be no further action over the claim, but by he had already been written out by that point.<\/p>\n

“Helen [Worth] and I go back a long way and I wanted to be the person that she left with \u2014 and I think the viewers did as well,” he said at the time.<\/p>\n

The soap then brought back Cold Feet’s John Thomson as Jesse Chadwick, who married Gail and moved with her to France.<\/p>\n

Coronation Street airs on weeknights at 8.30pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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