Coronation Street legend Gail Platt to marry for the SEVENTH time ahead of Helen Worth's exit

Gail Platt is to get married for the seventh time on ‘Coronation Street’.

The legendary soap character has been played by Helen Worth, 73, since she first appeared in July 1974 but after the actress announced her decision to quit earlier this year, insiders have claimed that filming for the matriarch’s latest wedding – this time to Jesse Chadwick (John Thomson) - is currently underway.

A source told The Sunday People: “The wedding scenes are being filmed and when they air, viewers will be gripped. As with any soap wedding, they will have to wait and see whether Gail makes it down the aisle or not.

"With a character as popular as her, they will be hoping she finally gets a happy ending."

Gail was married to Brian Tilsey (Christopher Quinten) from 1979 until 1987 and had Nick (Ben Price)and Sarah (Tina O'Brien) with him.

Although they remarried in 1988, he was stabbed to death shortly afterwards.

She then married nurse Martin Platt (Sean Wilson) in 1991 and had David (Jack P. Shepherd) with him but that marriage ended in 2001 when she discovered he had been having an affair with his colleague Rebecca Hopkins (Jill Halfpenny) whilst she was trying to come to terms with Sarah's teenage pregnancy.

In 2002, she married Richard Hillman (Brian Capron) but it all ended in disaster when he turned out to be a serial killer and drove Gail and her family into the canal.

Only Richard did not survive the ordeal and Gail later married Joe McIntyre (Reece Dinsdale) in 2010, but that was short-lived because he had tried to fake his own death as part of an insurance fraud and actually drowned.

Following a brief jail sentence in which she had wrongly been accused of his murder, Gail met Michael Rodwell (Les Dennis) when he burgled her home in 2014 and the pair ended up tying the knot in 2015 but he suffered a fatal heart attack just a year later.

Jesse was hastily written into Gail’s exit storyline following the sudden departure of Sean Wilson, who had been due to return as Martin but left suddenly over “personal reasons” just weeks it was announced that he would be back on Manchester-based serial.

Jesse first arrived on the Street as a children’s entertainer in 2008 and struck up a brief relationship with Gail’s arch nemesis Eileen Grimshaw (Sue Cleaver) but he left in 2010.