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EASTENDERS fans pleaded with bosses to bring backmost an iconic quality for the soap's upcoming 40th anniversary.
There has been overmuch speculation astir immoderate large returns for the BBC soap's day successful February 2025.
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With large names similar Chrissie Watts and David Wicks already returned this year, determination are immoderate adjacent bigger names successful the works for adjacent year.
Now fans are begging soap bosses to bring backmost Lisa Fowler - played by Lucy Benjamin.
Lisa is the girl of Johnathan and Eleanor Shaw, but astir notably the woman of Mark Fowler and parent of Louise Mitchell.
She archetypal appeared arsenic a trainee marketplace inspector successful 1998.
Her archetypal large storyline progressive her joined brag starting an matter with her.
Since then, she has rekindled a romance with Phil, near her hubby Mark and took her girl from Phil.
Her past quality successful 2020 saw Lisa assistance Louise fly to Portugal aft Louise believed she had killed Keanu.
Lisa's returned to Albert Square successful 2023 wherever she became Peggy's ineligible guardian aft Louise went disconnected the rails.
Could she marque different comeback?
Taking to Reddit, 1 instrumentality said: "I americium expecting a cameo from Lisa astatine immoderate point. She has done respective abbreviated stint returns that it would look unusual if she didn't marque an appearance."
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Another added: "Lisa was a quality that I wanted to shingle and archer her to get her enactment together."
A 3rd penned: "Every clip she’s returned for a stint, I deliberation ohio jeez this volition beryllium heavy-going."
This comes aft the prima exclusively revealed that Ross Kemp is returning for the soap’s 40th anniversary.
The star, 60, who played hardman Grant Mitchell, volition contiguous a peculiar one-off BBC1 documentary astir the long-running show.
Forgotten soap storylines
The nation's soaps person had galore gripping storylines play retired implicit the years. However, immoderate plots proved to beryllium acold little memorable. Here are immoderate forgotten stories from Weatherfield, Walford and more...
- Ken and Audrey's romance (2015): After the decease of woman Deirdre (Anne Kirkbride), Coronation Street archetypal Ken Barlow (William Roache) started to determination connected successful his life. He started to make a spark with aged person Audrey (Sue Nicholls), with then-Corrie brag saying it would beryllium similar "Ross and Rachel". In the end, thing ever came of it and the 2 remained platonic pals.
- Beth's bigamy (2016): Despite being happily joined to Kirk (Andrew Whyment), a troubling concealed came to airy astir Beth Tinker (Lisa George). It transpired that she had ne'er divorced from her archetypal husband, Darryl (Paul Loughran), begetter of her lad Craig (Colson Smith). Although Craig and Kirk were shocked - and Beth was arrested - the storyline didn't didn't spell overmuch further.
- Kat Slater's concealed son (2017): Capitalising connected the popularity of Kat (Jessie Wallace) and Alfie (Shane Richie), the 2 received a spin-off backmost successful 2017. Titled 'Redwater', it saw the 2 question to Ireland wherever they met long-lost lad Luke, present called Dermott Dolan, played by Oisín Stack. Despite the high-tension events during Redwater, Kat seems to person enactment the acquisition down her arsenic Dermott's not been mentioned since.
- Alfie's encephalon tumour (2015): Having learned successful 2015 that helium had a encephalon tumour, Alfie kept the quality from Kat until their travel to Ireland. At the time, histrion Shane Ritchie revealed fans would spot a alteration successful Alfie arsenic helium battled the illness. It would look that astatine immoderate constituent aft leaving the Square, was told the tumour was non-malignant. By the clip Alfie returned successful 2022, fans were left confused implicit what had happened to the storyline.
- Kathy and Buster's matter (2016): In 2016, Walford fable Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth) fell into the arms of convict Buster Briggs, played by Karl Howman. Buster was the long-time person of Shirley Carter (Linda Henry) and fathered some her sons - Mick (Danny Dyer) and Dean (Matt Di Angelo). When Buster left, helium begged Kathy to articulation him, but she refused for the involvement of her family. Meanwhile Buster didn’t adjacent halt to accidental goodbye to Shirley earlier exiting with a breached heart. Fans expected a showdown betwixt the 2 women, but this ne'er came to pass.
- Jacob's OCD (2016): After his dad, David (Matthew Wolfenden), was diagnosed with testicular crab successful 2016, Jacob (Joe-Warren Plant) developed Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). This manifested successful the signifier of cleaning. Jacob's OCD made a little instrumentality 1 twelvemonth on, aft David had different scare aft uncovering a lump. Jacob frantically searched the bins for a “lucky coin” that had accidentally been thrown away. Despite stressful situations - specified arsenic being groomed by his teacher Maya, losing his fiancee Leanna to a serial killer, dealing with mum Leyla’s cause addiction, and surviving a stabbing - the information doesn't look to person returned.
- Marlon and Charity's fling (2003): Few fans would apt retrieve fewer volition retrieve the one-night basal betwixt Charity (Emma Atkins) and Marlon (Mark Charnock) in 2003. The brace slept unneurotic erstwhile Charity was staying with Marlon portion inactive nether suspicion for hubby Chris's expected "murder".
- Alex Browning's revenge crippled (2014): Fans expected a confrontation erstwhile Dr Browning’s lad Alex (Ojan Genc) mer stepmum Mercedes McQueen (Jennifer Metcalfe). After all, Mercedes, with Cindy Cunningham (Stephanie Waring) and Lindsey Butterfield (Sophie Austin) had murdered Alex’s dad, double-murderer Dr Paul Browning, aft helium kidnapped and attacked his caller wife. In fact, the soap teased Alex would question revenge for his father's decease upon arriving. However, helium alternatively gave Cindy's lad Hilton (his half-brother) a life-saving transplant, became his godfather, and leaving the colony soon after.
Ross discontinue Walford in 1999 aft astir a decennary earlier little returns successful 2005 and 2016.
He has since been making a drawstring of hard-hitting factual series.
A root said: “Ross is joining successful celebrations by hosting his ain EastEnders documentary.
"He volition interrogation stars past and contiguous astir wherefore it is truthful bully and however important it is. EastEnders volition ever person a peculiar spot successful his bosom and he’s truly excited.”
Asked astir a instrumentality to EastEnders past week on This Morning, helium said: “I tin archer you nothing.”
The star, whose shows include Ross Kemp connected Gangs, added: “I wouldn’t person had a career, bully oregon bad, without it.”
Other rumored returns see Matt Di Angelo arsenic Dean Wicks and Louisa Lytton arsenic Ruby Allen.
EastEnders have besides announced an epic live episode arsenic portion of their 40th anniversary.
The BBC soap volition aerial a wholly unrecorded instalment from their Walford set arsenic they people the milestone.
And successful a amusement archetypal for EastEnders, viewers volition person the powerfulness to power the result of a emotion story.
During the peculiar - which volition aerial successful February - fans volition instrumentality portion successful a ballot during the show.
The formed and unit volition past beryllium capable to accommodate to the result chosen by Beeb viewers.
Speaking astir the unrecorded special, EastEnders' enforcement shaper Chris Clenshaw said: “The 40th anniversary is simply a milestone lawsuit for EastEnders, and we person been readying this week for a agelong clip to guarantee that it’s a week afloat of play and surprises.
"In fact, arsenic our regular assemblage volition know, we person already seen the instrumentality of acquainted faces and person galore much nods to our past to travel which volition each physique up to our momentous day week.
"This time, arsenic good arsenic going live, we are adding an other twist and for the precise archetypal clip successful the past of the amusement and arsenic a acquisition to the viewers, we are giving the assemblage the powerfulness to person their accidental successful choosing the result of 1 of our storylines.
"Whilst we’re inactive keeping the finite details of the 40th close to our chest, I tin committedness that it volition beryllium an unmissable week afloat of shocking twists that volition alteration Albert Square, and the lives of those who unrecorded successful it, forever.”
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