Ted Page

Ted Page, played by Michael Byrne, is the long lost father of Gail Platt and entered the soap in April 2008. He made his first appearance on 28 April 2008. Just a week after his arrival, Ted revealed he was gay. He'd recently lost his partner of twenty years.

Ted arrived in Coronation Street, as Audrey's old flame, got in touch with him. They agreed to meet, and talk about what had happened in the 50 years they had been separated. Audrey, before splitting up with Ted, discovered she was pregnant and didn't want to tell him.

This resulted in Gail being born. Ted became agitated as he realised he had missed out on 50 years of his daughters life and had never seen his grandchildren, Nick, Sarah and David or his great grandchildren, Bethany and Billy. Ted soon met Gail and they bonded almost instantly. Ted supported David when he was going to his job interview at a salon (going so far as to write a letter of recommendation using Audrey's name) while Gail was away as Ted was keeping an eye on David meanwhile.

Ted befriended Ken Barlow, offering him an extra ticket for a play. This led to Ken's mother-in-law Blanche Hunt suspecting Ken might become gay.