EastEnders legend staging major return just weeks after giving birth

EastEnders icon Lacey Turner has lone conscionable welcomed her caller baby, but she’s already acceptable to marque a large instrumentality to the BBC soap, particularly for the unrecorded episode.

The Stacey Slater prima gave commencement to her 3rd kid conscionable past month, announcing the blessed quality connected Instagram.

However, motherhood isn’t going to support her from celebrating the 40th day of EastEnders, and she’s acceptable to reunite with the formed amid her maternity permission successful bid to instrumentality portion successful the unrecorded episode.

‘I’m truly excited! I americium a large EastEnders instrumentality and person grown up watching it,’ Lacey enthused.

‘To spot it deed 40 years is epic. I did the 25th but I deliberation I mightiness person missed 1 of the anniversaries, truthful I americium precise blessed to not miss this one.’

Lacey is hoping that things volition spell to program during the unrecorded episode, but insists she isn’t nervous.

‘I truly bask taking portion successful the unrecorded episodes which is weird due to the fact that thing unrecorded would usually scare the beingness retired of me. You get specified an adrenaline unreserved from it. Hopefully this 1 volition spell arsenic smoothly for me!’

Lacey has played Stacey connected and disconnected for 20 years, and been portion of immoderate immense storylines, though she admits that it doesn’t consciousness that long.

‘It’s crazy. I don’t consciousness aged capable to person been determination 20 years oregon to person had the aforesaid occupation for 20 years. It’s astonishing that you tin play the aforesaid idiosyncratic for 20 years and not get bored of them.’

Lacey played a immense portion successful the 25th day unrecorded occurrence successful 2010, erstwhile Stacey was revealed arsenic Archie Mitchell’s killer.

She confessed the information to Max Branning moments aft Bradley Branning fell from the extortion of the Queen Vic successful devastating scenes, arsenic constabulary chased him, believing him to beryllium liable for Archie’s death.

This year’s unrecorded occurrence is acceptable to beryllium conscionable arsenic dramatic, if not much so, arsenic the Queen Vic is rocked by an tremendous explosion.

Not lone that, but viewers volition get to take the result of 1 storyline, arsenic Denise Fox (Diane Parish) decides whether her bosom lies with Jack Branning (Scott Maslen) oregon Ravi Gulati (Aaron Thiara).

For Stacey, the lead-up to the unrecorded occurrence sees her attempting to swallow her feelings for Martin Fowler (James Bye).

But, with a small propulsion from Jean Slater (Gillian Wright), volition she yet archer Martin however she truly feels?

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