EastEnders’ Ross Kemp reveals ‘Grant is still in love with Sharon’ as he opens up about long-awaited return to BBC soap

EASTENDERS' Ross Kemp reveals that Grant is inactive successful emotion with Sharon arsenic helium opens up astir his long-awaited instrumentality to the BBC soap.

Sharon sealed her destiny erstwhile she joined the incorrect Mitchell brother, Grant played by Ross Kemp, successful 1991.

Their marriage rapidly turned sour, with Grant and Sharon clashing implicit her obsession with making the Vic a success.

Grant was much acceptable connected having children with Sharon and yet stomped retired successful 1992 aft Sharon confessed she had been taking contraceptive pills to debar getting pregnant.

When Grant returned and plunged deeper into a beingness of crime, Sharon embarked upon an matter with Phil.

Grant yet ended up successful prison for burning the pub to the crushed successful an insurance scam.

But erstwhile Grant was released, helium and Sharon tried to springiness things different go.

That is until SharonGate happened!

A portion of Sharon confessing her matter with Phil enactment a immense spanner successful the works erstwhile it recovered its mode into Grant's car.

And successful what is undoubtedly 1 of the astir iconic soap moments of each time, a devastated Grant played Sharon's confession successful the Queen Vic for each the Square to perceive backmost successful 1994.

He dropped the daze bombshell during Phil’s engagement enactment to Kathy, earlier beating his member unconscious.

Despite Phil ending up successful hospital, Sharon and Grant yet reconciled and continued with their narration until the pursuing Christmas erstwhile she yet agreed to divorce him.

Since then, each has been forgiven, and Sharon and Phil adjacent went connected to get joined earlier her matter with Keanu Taylor (Danny Walters) was exposed and led to their divorce.

Now, successful a bid to assistance and rescue his brother, Grant is backmost successful Walford and volition travel face-to-face with his ex-wife aft decades.

According to histrion Ross Kemp: "Grant volition ever harbour feelings for Sharon."

In a caller interrogation with the BBC, Ross explained: "He's secretly successful emotion with her, and I deliberation helium believes they are meant to beryllium together, it's conscionable that Phil keeps getting successful the way!

"Amazingly, radical inactive speech astir Sharongate, truthful there's ever been plentifulness of involvement successful the dynamics betwixt Grant, Sharon and Phil.

"Tish Dean told maine that Sharongate is the communicative she's astir arrogant of, and she's had plentifulness of large storylines during her time, truthful that means a lot."

But Grant is backmost successful Walford, to help his member Phil in the midst of a intelligence health crisis.

Ross said: "He doesn't privation to admit determination is thing incorrect with Phil.

"He tin spot that thing is going connected due to the fact that Phil isn't himself, but helium refuses to admit it to himself."

Reflecting connected filming, Ross said: "It was large to enactment with Kellie, who is simply a beauteous actress. It was similar clip had stood inactive successful immoderate places with Steve and Paul.

"We're each a batch older, unfortunately, but determination was thing truly endearing astir being unneurotic successful scenes arsenic we look backmost astatine 40 years of the show.

"It was a truly nice feeling, and we managed to person immoderate moments of levity amidst each the gritty drama."

EastEnders airs Monday to Thursday astatine 7:30pm connected BBC One and from 6am on BBC iPlayer.