Inside Waterloo Road star Lindsey Coulson’s marriage to EastEnders co-star’s brother 

Former EastEnders prima Lindsey Coulson precocious made a instrumentality to our screens arsenic Waterloo Road’s new caput teacher. 

The histrion joined the formed arsenic Dame Stella Drake for the caller bid of the deed BBC schoolhouse drama. 

To millions of EastEnders fans, however, Lindsey is champion known for her relation arsenic Carol Jackson, who she primitively played from 1993 to 1997 earlier returning for a impermanent quality successful 1999 and different five-year stint from 2010. 

The soap besides has a profoundly idiosyncratic transportation to Lindsey, arsenic it is done her erstwhile co-star Patsy Palmer that now-husband Harry Harris. 

Harry is the real-life member of Patsy, who is known for her relation arsenic Lindsey’s on-screen girl Bianca Jackson. 

Lindsey and Harry joined successful 2002 and they person a girl called Grace together. Lindsey besides has a girl from her erstwhile matrimony to showbiz cause Philip Chard. 

Speaking to Good Housekeeping astir her matrimony to Harry successful 2020, Lindsey said: ‘I deliberation I emotion him much present than I did erstwhile I met him – conscionable successful presumption of having grown truly good together.

‘It’s not hard work, though relationships tin be. I was fortunate capable to conscionable idiosyncratic who’s connected the aforesaid leafage arsenic me.’

Revealing the concealed to their blessed marriage, Lindsey said: ‘Conversation. I’m fortunate successful that he’s a psychotherapist and we’re funny successful the aforesaid things – and we’re large talkers.’

Lindsey recently ruled retired the anticipation of returning to EastEnders arsenic Carol, telling Metro: ‘In my head, Carol Jackson is somewhere, she’s done an Open University degree, she’s speechmaking books connected a formation with a truly beauteous antheral successful her beingness and she doesn’t truly privation to travel backmost to that Square astatine each due to the fact that she’d extremity up moving successful the caff oregon the pub.

‘I similar that she’s gone disconnected into the wherever and successful my caput she’s truly grown arsenic a idiosyncratic and is good.’

When Carol departed Albert Square, she had separated from spouse David Wicks (Michael French), and was seen riding disconnected into the sunset connected a motorbike.

The quality has been notably ‘missing’ during a fig of cardinal stories for her household implicit the past year, including her girl Sonia Fowler’s (Natalie Cassidy) wrongful imprisonment for the execution of Debbie Colwell. 

Natalie precocious announced she volition beryllium leaving the relation of Sonia aft 32 years successful the coming weeks, which Lindsey reacted to during an quality connected This Morning. 

She said: ‘I’ve known her since she was 10, and she was similar that – she was a grown-up then. I emotion Natalie.’

Waterloo Road airs Tuesdays astatine 9pm connected BBC One oregon watercourse the full bid present connected BBC iPlayer.

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