EastEnders favourite Little Mo looks unrecognisable 25 years after soap debut

EastEnders star, Kacey Ainsworth, who played Little Mo successful the BBC soap from 2000 to 2006 is backmost connected our screens successful Grantchester and looks a satellite distant from her days successful Walford

BBC's EastEnders favourite, Kacey Ainsworth, looks unrecognisable 25 years aft she made her debut successful Albert Square.

The actress, 55, who played the much-loved Little Mo Slater successful the BBC soap, won respective awards for her portrayal of the cleaner, who was abused by her husband, Trevor Morgan. After leaving EastEnders successful 2006, Kacey has switched roles wholly and is presently starring successful the ninth bid of ITV detective play , Grantchester, - looking wholly different!

EastEnders fans volition retrieve Little Mo sporting agelong brownish hairsbreadth with a blunt fringe during her days successful Walford. However, Kacey is present a red-head, rocking a overmuch shorter chopped with curls, which suits her character, Cathy Keating, successful the 1950s play perfectly.

Talking connected the Lorraine Show astir reprising her relation successful Grantchester, Kacey besides revealed she helped to constitute Wednesday's instalment of the show. Revealing however she became progressive successful script-writing, she said: "It's thing I ever wanted to do, I started penning with [EastEnders star] Tracey Ann Oberman erstwhile we had babies unneurotic and we had palmy clip with it.

"But the occupation was is that I enactment arsenic an histrion and truthful does she, we're ever truthful busy. We can't ore connected these things, but it's ne'er excessively late. It's ne'er excessively precocious to bash thing similar this." She continued: "I'd been suggesting things for Kathy to bash and for different characters and storylines for years, I conscionable thought I had to instrumentality the bull by the horns. I wrote implicit the Christmas, 3 weeks off, I got up aboriginal earlier the kids, wrote an occurrence and went for it!"

Kacey's alter-ego Little Mo was progressive successful a fig of hard-hitting storylines, including her abusive narration with hubby Trevor. During her chat with Lorraine, the histrion said she would beryllium unfastened to returning to EastEnders, contempt the pugnacious storylines.

Pointing retired that Little Mo was inactive alive, she said: "She’s not dead." Lorraine asked: "What is she doing?" Kacey joked: "Somebody asked maine this yesterday, I deliberation she near connected the tube, she’s conscionable going astir the ellipse line.." Laughing, Lorraine said: "Never accidental never."

In January 2000, Kacey was 1 of 30 actresses who auditioned for the relation of Little Mo. The quality was created arsenic portion of the Slater family, which introduced america to soap stars including, Kat, played by Jessie Wallace and Stacey, played by Lacey Turner. In 2004, Kacey took extended permission from EastEnders earlier announcing her determination to permission the soap successful 2006 to prosecute different projects, including Hotel Babylon and Moving On.

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