Coronation Street boss Kate Brooks has teased there could be a sad ending to one wedding planned for Christmas Day, amid a huge episode for the ITV soap
There’s a wedding on the way this Christmas on Coronation Street, but the bride and groom might not make it down the aisle.
After The Mirror exclusively revealed weeks ago that Gail Platt was said to wed one more time before her exit from the ITV soap, new spoilers have confirmed the big day may not go ahead. Soap boss Kate Brooks told The Mirror that there’s bombshells and secrets being exposed, and poor Gail is left wondering who she can trust.
With her betrayed by those closest to her, it’s been revealed that amid plans for a Christmas Day wedding she’s left unsure she can go through with it. But will she or won’t she marry Jesse Chadwick?
Kate spilled: “[The episode is] set against Gail’s wedding, whether she goes through with that or not, I cannot tell anything. But this is a story with the Platts at the heart of it, it’s really festive, basically it’s a story about family and how secrets impact and implode on a family.
“So there’s a lot of betrayals, lots of secrets are exposed during this episode and it will be like classic Corrie with a bit of a twist. [We want] to make sure that we give glorious Gail the exit that she deserves.”
There’s a wedding on the way this Christmas on Coronation Street (Image: ITV)
It’s yet to be confirmed what Gail finds out, and how many people she’s left betrayed by. Does Jesse have a secret that leaves her distraught? Or might it be the Platts trying to stop her going through with it?
Kate told us: “She’s been such an icon on the street for such a long time. 50 years of television, which is amazing. We can’t tell a story on Christmas Day about her exit without it feeling and being steeped in nostalgia.
“There’s tons of nostalgia in this episode and hopefully people will be crying, they’ll be laughing, there’ll be gasps as people watching it go, ‘Oh my goodness, that’s just happened’ but yeah, old school Corrie but just with a real modern twist and I think people will really, really enjoy it.”
Kate went on: “You basically have Gail, who’s going to leave the street, in the run-up to Christmas she has found out that some of her nearest and dearest have absolutely betrayed her, she doesn’t know who to believe, even her dear old mum has kind of lied to her and she really struggles with that and she’s a bit like ‘I don’t know whether I want this, I don’t know whether I want to be with Jesse’.
“She contemplates and questions everything and every decision she’s ever made, and obviously Gail has had a really colourful past so that’s a big part of that Christmas Day episode, but she is there and she is going to leave the street and it’s going to be so wonderful and sad. You’ve got all these different bombs going off around her and she’s oblivious to them all and it’s wonderful. So yeah, it’s a great Christmas.”
