Patsy To Return To Walford

Patsy Palmer is heading back to Albert Square to reprise her role as Bianca in EastEnders.

The broadcaster revealed that the 35-year-old actress is to begin filming in January, and will be on screens from around the end of March.

Patsy's return comes eight years after she left the show in 1999, and 14 years after she first joined it in 1993.

Her reappearance seems to follow a change of heart because two years ago she declared she would never go back to the soap that made her famous.

At the time, she told the Telegraph then: "I wouldn't go back to EastEnders, though. I just don't really believe in it any more. The stories are so unbelievable, it's ridiculous."

Years on, Bianca is still having trouble with her love life and arrives back in the East End with her son by ex-love Ricky, called Liam, and a string of children by other men.

According to the BBC, she is "at rock bottom and struggling to survive" and returns because her grandmother, Pat Evans, still lives in the Square.