Death in Paradise star reveals why he made shock U-turn to reprise role in BBC drama – four years after quitting

AS viewers await the instrumentality of Death successful Paradise, 1 of the show’s stars has revealed wherefore helium chose to instrumentality to idyllic execution blistery spot.

Tobi Bakare starred arsenic Sergeant JP Hooper for 7 years earlier helium decided to permission the tropical paradise of ‘Saint Marie’ for bully successful 2021.

On surface JP was promoted wrong the police and near friends and colleagues behind, but disconnected camera Tobi had done a batch of interior psyche searching astir his determination to go.

However, fans volition beryllium excited to spot his acquainted look erstwhile again arsenic helium pops up to prima successful an occurrence successful the caller bid of Death successful Paradise, which starts tonight.

Tobi is simply a antheral of religion and helium antecedently said that a preacher successful Guadalope, wherever the bid is filmed, had helped him realise his clip playing the likeable sergeant afloat clip was up.

He and his household had committed truthful overmuch clip to being retired successful the Caribbean that Tobi felt helium needed to displacement his focus.

Speaking to The Sun up of the bid motorboat Tobi said: “There's antithetic types of seeds. You person a career, you person your money, you person your family, you person your businesses, you person whatever.

"And sometimes you conscionable got to h2o a peculiar effect a small spot more. And I'm inactive watering the effect of family."

Having spent clip away, erstwhile the telephone came to return, Tobi revealed that the determination to travel backmost took immoderate clip to make.

He said: “I had to beryllium with it and commune connected it, you know, sometimes erstwhile you determination distant from something, to spell backmost to it, it's like, you person to go, americium I trying to rekindle an aged flame, you know?

"But the information is, I don't deliberation Death successful Paradise is an aged occurrence to me. I deliberation it's a changeless flame. Sometimes it burns brightly, sometimes burns a spot much dimly, but it's rather constant.

"So, coming back, it was not an casual determination due to the fact that I had really mostly decided not to enactment that acold retired of the UK.”

But it seems that the operation of the stunning determination and the squad connected determination won Tobi around.

He said: “It's a beauteous island. It's hard to not miss the land and this amusement it's got 1 of the astir astonishing accumulation companies, Red Planet.

“They cognize however to get that retired of the actors that they bring connected board…And truthful that line, I think, volition ever beryllium open, whether it's, whether I spell successful it oregon not, I don't know, but that enactment is ever gonna beryllium open.”

For fans this volition beryllium a accidental to spot however Tobi and his quality instrumentality to the caller DI Morgan, played by Don Gilet.

Speaking of the incoming detective Tobi said: “You cognize what Don Gilet reminds maine of? Being successful a pub successful Finsbury Park watching Arsenal play.

"I conscionable get that vibe, you cognize what I mean? The dress, the energy, each of it. And I deliberation helium plays the quality conscionable successful a mode that's truthful relatable.

“He does specified a large job. I mean, helium produces these moments of, these truly subtle moments of comedy, but it comes retired of the familiarity.”

As idiosyncratic who’s seen the show’s celebrated stars similar Ralf Little and Ardal O’Hanlon travel and go, Tobi is definite that the bid inactive has a agleam future.

He mused: “The amusement itself ever survives. I deliberation they've tapped into a look that they tin perpetually work.

"And it's breathtaking to see, sometimes erstwhile you're backed into a corner, it's breathtaking to spot what you've travel up with to bring up thing caller and fresh. So I deliberation it tin decidedly survive.”

Death In Paradise returns contiguous connected BBC One astatine 9pm and volition beryllium disposable connected BBC Iplayer