Is JP Hooper back for good on Death In Paradise as Tobi Bakare reprises role

JP Hooper makes a peculiar instrumentality to Death In Paradise for the commencement of the caller bid amid a pugnacious lawsuit for the Saint Marie constabulary team

JP Hooper makes a invited instrumentality to Death In Paradise for the caller series.

Tobi Bakare has reprised his relation arsenic the instrumentality favourite quality Sergeant Hooper for the marque caller series. Tobi revealed it was a nary brainer for him to marque his instrumentality to the amusement for the important storyline.

He said of coming backmost to the show: "Tim Key, an enforcement shaper of Death successful Paradise, gave maine a telephone and helium was saying, 'We've got this large story' and I was like, 'OK'. He conscionable has this infectious mode of tapping into our hearts, I don't cognize however helium does it, I don't cognize why," Bakare says. "He has a cardinal to my heart, I can't archer my woman that, but helium does. He told maine astir what they were readying connected doing, and it made a batch of sense, I spoke to a mates of my radical and I was similar 'yea, let's bash this.'

"You cognize what, it was. It was the information that I was astir the play before, I had a small occurrence successful the play earlier that it astir felt a spot close, but I ever accidental erstwhile a storyline makes consciousness an histrion serves a story. And arsenic overmuch arsenic the proximity betwixt the 2 episodes, this 1 and the erstwhile one, I thought was a spot overmuch - arsenic an actor, sometimes you tin get insecure and benignant of go, ‘oh, I don't privation radical to deliberation I'm conscionable trying to devour disconnected Death successful Paradise', truthful I should person been done."

Tobi refused to remark connected whether helium volition beryllium backmost erstwhile again to reprise his relation aboriginal successful the series. "You request to service a communicative and you can't dictate what that communicative is. So for me, the communicative made consciousness truthful I was there. Whether the communicative is going to marque consciousness adjacent year, the twelvemonth after, whenever, we’ll see," helium teased.

Don Gilet is besides making his archetypal quality successful the caller bid of the show, having already appeared successful the Christmas special. Speaking astir stepping into the role, the erstwhile EastEnders prima said: "I'm definite it won't beryllium a astonishment to accidental that it was some breathtaking and terrifying successful adjacent measure. I liken it to 1 of those scary rides astatine a taxable park.

"I'm going connected it, and I cognize it's going to beryllium scary, but I'm going to bash it. You’re daring yourself. Then you beryllium successful the spot going, “What person I conscionable fto myself successful for?!” But it was breathtaking due to the fact that I knew I was embarking connected this caller journey."

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