All eyes are set to be on Gemma Winter as she finally walks down the aisle to tie the knot with Chesney Brown in one of the biggest and boldest dresses Weatherfield has ever seen. Coronation Street viewers will finally get to see the lovebirds wed with Gemma, played by Dolly-Rose Campbell, donning the dress of her dreams.
And Dolly-Rose got a say on how it was done. "I based the idea off weddings I had seen as a child because these would have been the weddings Gemma would have seen as a child, growing up in the nineties," she told the Manchester Evening News and other press. Dolly-Rose, from Salford, often keeps her personal matters fairly private - while character Gemma's love life has been at the centre of some of Corrie's explosive scenes - from her one-night stand with Tyrone to her fling with faux-millionaire Henry Newton, before finally finding her happy ever after with Chesney.
Dolly-Rose also said she wants to focus on helping others come to terms with their sexuality in her role as ambassador for the annual LGBTQ+ event. In her own life, she has been supported by her nearest and dearest with her sexuality, reports Daily Star. Her first TV gig, however, was in daytime soap Doctors, where she played Sasha Dyson in 2010 for a number of episodes. She didn't get her big break in Corrie for another four years, when she made it through the audition process to play ex-convict Gemma.