Audrey Roberts (Sue Nicholls) issues daughter Gail Platt (Helen Worth) with a shock ultimatum later this month, as the Coronation Street matriarch seeks to stop her wedding to Jesse Chadwick (John Thomson).
Gail left her family stunned earlier this week on the ITV soap when she announced she and Jesse are getting married on Christmas Day and will be leaving Weatherfield to buy a villa in the South of France.
Audrey was visibly unimpressed and fans will see her continue to make digs about Gail’s choice of sixth husband – but her anger soon bubbles over in the days leading up to the couple’s big day.
Unable to bite her tongue any longer, Audrey
Gail is left stunned at her mother’s ultimatum but seems determined to plough ahead with her plans.
Ahead of the wedding, Gail and Jesse have a farewell party in The Rovers, but tensions are high.
With Audrey still refusing to give them her blessing, she resorts to desperate measures to stop Gail from leaving.
She drops the bombshell that Jesse and David have been up to no good behind her back, with Jesse having laundered drug lord Harvey Gaskell’s (Will Mellor) missing cash that David stole.
After un upset and exhausted Gail heads home, she drifts in and out of sleep on the sofa and she has a surprise visitor…
Will they help her decide what to do?
Corrie boss Kate Brooks revealed things come to a head on Christmas Day, telling Metro: ‘Gail 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 Xmas Day episode, but she is there, and she is going to leave the street and it’s going to be so wonderful and sad.’
