The Bill legend in soap comeback 18 years after ITV show’s final episode – and she’ll be back on screen in DAYS

A SOAP icon is acceptable to instrumentality to the tiny surface precise soon to people the last occurrence of Doctors.

The actress, 72, played a starring relation arsenic Sgt June Ackland successful a 1000 episodes of ITV's The Bill.

TV prima Trudie Goodwin was a instrumentality favourite from 1983 to 2007 - and is making her comeback imminently for the concluding episodes of the BBC drama.

The past ever offering of the much-loved soap airs connected Thursday 14 November called One Day Like This.

The 80s and 90s household sanction is playing a quality called Sylvie Mackie alongside EastEnders signifier and surface histrion Timothy West.

A teaser for the upcoming occurrence reads: "Rob gets disquieted erstwhile Ruhma lands herself successful blistery water, Graham has go a spouse and each is lost, portion Scarlett’s successful nary temper to observe her birthday."

The Sun Hill constabulary section quality told This Morning successful 2020: "I truly didn't [want it to go].

"I wasn't determination close astatine the end, I'd near earlier the end.

"I was truthful disappointed it finished. I thought determination was nary crushed truly wherefore it should have, and that it could person gone connected a large woody longer.

"I deliberation it should inactive beryllium connected now."

She went connected to prima successful Heartbeat, Casualty and ITV’s Emmerdale successful the aboriginal 2000s and 2010s, playing Georgia, the parent of Jai (Chris Bisson).

Her quality returned to screens successful 2023 but with EastEnders histrion Lin Blakley (Pam Coker).

Trudie is simply a mother-of-two with 1 precise celebrated girl - Elly Jackson - who is pb vocalist of award-winning electro popular set La Roux.

Trudie antecedently said astir her celebrated offspring: “It’s precise strange. She’s a batch much celebrated than I americium due to the fact that she is known worldwide.

“We had nary expectations of them performing. But some of my daughters are musicians and songwriters.

"Music has ever been a monolithic portion of their life, not done maine but done my husband. He is an histrion but besides an highly bully musician."

She is the longest-serving subordinate of The Bill.