Martin Platt in Coronation Street has been described as the only normal one of ex-wife Gail’s five husbands!
He is the biological dad of David Platt and stepdad to Sarah Platt (now Sarah Barlow) who took his surname as she never knew her real dad.
And he was Gail’s second husband – after Brian, but before Richard, Joe and Michael.
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Martin and Gail’s romance
Martin was much younger than Gail when they met working in Jim’s Cafe – which became Roy’s Rolls – back in the 1980s.
When Gail’s husband Brian was murdered, Martin gave his new friend a shoulder to cry on and eventually they fell in love and in 1990, Gail got pregnant.
She was originally planning to have an abortion, but Martin stopped her and the pair settled down together with Martin becoming a father figure to Sarah and Nick–
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