EastEnders legend joins Waterloo Road cast despite rumours of a return to BBC soap

Lindsey Coulson, who starred successful EastEnders arsenic Carol Jackson, is present joining Waterloo Road arsenic the headteacher connected the adjacent series, which is acceptable to aerial successful aboriginal 2025

Waterloo Road has signed up an EastEnders fable for its adjacent bid amid rumours that she could instrumentality for the soap's 40th day adjacent year.

Lindsey Coulson, who won the 2000 British Soap Award for Best Dramatic Performance for her relation arsenic Carol Jackson connected the BBC programme, has begun filming for the adjacent bid of the broad schoolhouse drama. Waterloo Road archetypal broadcast connected BBC One successful 2006, and bid 15 is acceptable to aerial successful aboriginal 2025.

In the show, she volition beryllium playing the caller headteacher arsenic Jason Manford departs arsenic Mr Savage. The 64-year-old histrion is said to beryllium "thrilled" to beryllium joining Waterloo Road arsenic the headteacher relation is "great" for her. A root told The Sun: "Lindsey's thrilled to beryllium joining the show. She's playing the caller caput teacher and it's a large relation for her. The amusement is truly going from spot to strength. She's a existent powerhouse histrion and is having a large time."

The quality comes arsenic fans anticipation that Lindsey volition instrumentality to EastEnders erstwhile the soap marks its 40th day adjacent year. She past starred successful the soap successful 2015, riding connected Jim Branning's aged motorbike portion looking for a caller beingness distant from Walford. Fans are besides speculating that Ross Kemp is acceptable to marque a immense return to EastEnders, 25 years aft his exit, for the day adjacent year. Earlier this month, Ross was grilled connected This Morning astir a imaginable comeback.

But contempt Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary probing the star, helium simply replied: "I tin archer you nothing." However, it has present been claimed helium volition beryllium joining successful the 40th celebrations. Since leaving the soap, Ross has hosted a bid of hard-hitting factual documentaries. A root told The Sun: "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."

Speaking astir his clip connected the show, Ross said connected This Morning: "I americium precise arrogant of the amusement celebrating 40 years and I wouldn't person had a career, bully oregon atrocious without it." He added: "I perfectly emotion it and I inactive enactment it and I would if I had travel from Coronation Street oregon Emmerdale, good I was successful Emmerdale Farm concisely earlier but yeah, I americium arrogant the amusement is celebrating the 40 years and I volition proceed to enactment it arsenic agelong arsenic I can."

He added: "I tin accidental nary much than that." EastEnders shaper Chris Clenshaw antecedently hinted the show's 40th day could diagnostic the instrumentality of classical characters. When asked if immoderate iconic characters from the past could instrumentality to EastEnders, the shaper told The Sun: "Maybe. It each depends connected the communicative and wherever the characters are. But it has to travel from character, it has to travel from story."

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