EastEnders signs up West End legend guest role – and her first episode airs tonight

EASTENDERS bosses person signed up a West End fable for a impermanent relation connected the soap - and she makes her debut tonight.

Actress Melanie La Barrie volition look successful a fig of episodes of the BBC soap arsenic Dr Kelleher arsenic portion of Ruby Allen’s melodramatic return.

Viewers watched arsenic Ruby returned aft Martin discovered she had welcomed his lad successful secret.

And portion she primitively lied and claimed to person had the babe adopted, helium soon discovered that alternatively their lad was sick successful hospital.

Viewers volition spot Melanie’s quality breaking the news to Ruby and Martin that their lad Roman is successful request of a liver transplant.

“It’s 1 of the options we’re considering,” she tells them.

“Currently Roman’s liver isn’t responding to the steroid attraction arsenic good arsenic we’d hope. But we request to support monitoring the concern intimately to spot if helium improves implicit the next fewer days. 

“The information was already there, you’re not to blame, it tin conscionable develop.”

She was forced to interruption the news to Ruby that she wasn’t a viable surviving donor for Rowan, portion Martin was taken for investigating for his suitability.

The histrion volition look successful a fig of future episodes The Sun tin exclusively reveal.

She made her West End debut successful Ragtimes successful 2004 and has gone connected to prima successful immoderate of the biggest signifier hits.

Roles successful Mary Poppins, Les Miserables, Matilda The Musical and Wicked person followed making her a West End legend.

She was besides appeared successful &Juliet successful some the archetypal Manchester production, the West End shows and past connected Broadway successful New York.

The histrion is presently starring successful Hadestown astatine the Lyric Theatre successful the West End.