{"id":335854,"date":"2025-12-26T02:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T02:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/335854\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T02:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T02:47:11","slug":"corrie-gail-platt-stars-life-off-screen-huge-net-worth-to-devastating-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/335854\/","title":{"rendered":"Corrie Gail Platt star’s life off screen – huge net worth to devastating affair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veteran actress Helen Worth is set to make a special Coronation Street return, exactly a year after leaving the show behind following 50 years on the ITV soap<\/p>\n

21:00, 25 Dec 2025Updated 21:02, 25 Dec 2025<\/p>\n

\"Corrie\"As the unlucky-in-love mother of three, Gail evolved into one of the show’s most treasured and enduring characters<\/p>\n

It’s been almost a year since Coronation Street icon Gail Platt said farewell to Weatherfield after 50 years on the cobbles as she packed her bags for France.<\/p>\n

Following her departure last Christmas<\/a>, we are set to see Helen Worth back on our screens over the festive period as the long-suffering mum makes a surprise Corrie return – although bosses are keeping her involvement in the episode a strict secret.<\/p>\n

Fans of the ITV<\/a> show were left stunned by her exit after a long-running stint on the soap, spanning back to 1974. She is set for a one-off appearance, which is sure to delight the show’s avid viewers when he see the long-server return with more problems ahead in the Platt household.<\/p>\n

\"GailCorrie icon Gail Platt was last seen in Weatherfield last year before she left with new husband Jesse<\/p>\n

Helen loved playing Gail, a character who has had her fair share of drama over the years from multiple marriages, her daughter Sarah’s teenage pregnancy<\/a>, bitter feuds, and falling for a serial killer. Since she left, the 74-year-old star has been linked with a number of big parts.<\/p>\n

Here, we take a look at her off-screen life and what could be next for the star as she prepares to take a step back onto the street a year after he departure.<\/p>\n

Strictly links\"TheCould we see her on Strictly Come Dancing? (Image: Guy Levy\/BBC\/PA)<\/p>\n

Could 2026 finally be the year we see the star take to the Strictly dancefloor?<\/p>\n

Helen – understood to be a big fan of the BBC<\/a> show – has been linked since 2024, the year she announced she would be leaving Coronation Street<\/a>. Fans are hopeful we will still see the star don the sequins when the next line-up is announced.<\/p>\n

She would join a long list of former Corrie stars who\u2019ve competed on Strictly, including Tina O\u2019Brien, Catherine Tyldesley, Georgia May Foote, and of course the 2023 winner Ellie Leach<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Secret life in London\"HelenShe lives in London but made sure she was back north for on-screen son Jack P Shepherd’s wedding in the summer(Image: MCPIX)<\/p>\n

Having been in Corrie for so long and appearing in over 3,000 episodes, Helen was one of the soap’s highest paid stars. She reportedly took home a \u00a3250,000-a-year salary.<\/p>\n

But instead of living in Manchester, where Coronation Street is filmed, she actually lives in London where she owns a house.<\/p>\n

Despite being a northern girl at heart, having grown up in Morecambe, Lancashire, Helen enjoys a glitzy life in the capital and made the lengthy commute to the set to film her scenes, making the most of some fine hotels and often staying in the city.<\/p>\n

Husband heartbreaking affair\"HelenHelen with first husband Michael Angelis, who cheated on her twice(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

Helen tends to keep her personal life away from the limelight but was faced with a very public situation back in 1995 when her first husband Michael’s affair was leaked.<\/p>\n

Speaking about his infidelity back in 2001, she told The Mirror<\/a>: “Nothing can ever prepare you for the day your husband sits you down and tells you he is having an affair.<\/p>\n

“My marriage was everything to me. It was the foundation on which everything else was built. I had been with Michael for nearly half of my life. I never imagined that we wouldn’t grow old together. When he told me, everything just went black.<\/p>\n

“Things started to make sense. Maybe I realised right away that something like that had been bound to happen. Things hadn’t been right for some time, but – naively maybe – I didn’t think it was serious.”<\/p>\n

Family tragedy\"SarahHelen’s tragic mum never got to see her acting career blossom (Image: Granada Television)<\/p>\n

Helen’s glittering soap career took off three years after she tragically lost her mother in a hit-and-run accident when the actress was 20 years old. Previously opening up to the Daily Star<\/a> about her heartache, she shared: “The one person I really wanted to tell when I got the part of Gail was my mother.<\/p>\n

“She would have been so thrilled. More excited than me. She’d been there all the way – at the dance classes, holding my hand before the competitions, putting on her best suit to take me to London for auditions. But when I finally made it, she wasn’t there to share it with me. I’d never missed her more.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran actress Helen Worth is set to make a special Coronation Street return, exactly a year after leaving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,2525,96,14703,2534,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-335854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-coronation-street","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-helen-worth","12":"tag-soap-operas","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}