‘Lovely to be back!’ TV legend huge in the 90s staging big comeback

EastEnders fable Todd Carty is heading backmost to the theatre this Christmas successful a caller panto role. 

The histrion – best known for playing Mark Fowler successful the BBC soap – will beryllium appearing successful a accumulation of Sleeping Beauty successful Poole this festive season. 

And successful a motion to 1 of his different iconic roles, his quality is called King Tucker. 

Many volition retrieve that Todd started his acting vocation arsenic a kid histrion playing Tucker Jenkins successful Grange Hill backmost successful the 1970s.

Speaking astir his caller role, Todd told the Bournemouth Echo: ‘Sleeping Beauty is simply a caller 1 for me. I person played a king earlier successful Jack and the Beanstalk, though this mightiness beryllium a antithetic benignant of king – we’ll person to spot what comes retired successful the wash.

‘I similar to person amusive successful panto. It’s a immense squad effort and we each privation to enactment connected a amusement that everyone enjoys – grandma, grandad, mum, dada and the children, of course.’

Sleeping Beauty volition beryllium staged astatine the Lighthouse successful Poole – a theatre acquainted to Todd, who appeared successful a accumulation of The Mousetrap determination earlier this year. 

He added: ‘It’s beauteous to travel backmost and, much importantly, it’s beauteous to beryllium asked to travel back.’

The histrion portrayed Mark Fowler successful EastEnders from 1990 to 2003.

Mark was the eldest lad of Pauline and Arthur Fowler (Wendy Richard and Bill Treacher), who were besides parents to Michelle (Susan Tully) and Martin (James Bye).

One of Mark’s biggest storylines saw him diagnosed with HIV successful 1991. 

In 2003, Mark was told by a doc that his assemblage was rejecting the medicine to prolong his beingness and dilatory down the onset of AIDS, and helium decided to permission Walford truthful his household would not person to ticker him die. 

He near the Square connected his motorbike, earlier dying off-screen a twelvemonth later. 

Since Todd’s departure from EastEnders, he’s gone connected to look successful a assortment of shows including Doctors, Holby City, A Touch of Cloth and Dancing connected Ice. 

Sleeping Beauty opens connected Thursday 12 December and runs until Sunday 5 January.

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