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Cindy Beale (played by Michelle Collins) made an epic return to EastEnders during tonight’s episode and admitted her arrival back on the show felt “surreal”.
BBC viewers learned Rose Knight, who George Knight (Colin Salmon) had enlisted Phil Mitchel’s (Steve McFadden) help to find, was actually Cindy.
Michelle recently opened up to Express.co.uk and other press about her return and admitted she didn’t think it would work.
She said: “We filmed everything on location about six weeks ago. I am actually now filming back in the square and that felt very different, now I feel in there and it’s surreal.
“Surreal, nerve-wracking but it is also very exciting! People always kind of asked and you say ‘Oh never say never’ but I didn’t think they could ever do it.
“So when it came to it, I think it was about timing, life is about timing and if it happened five years ago I would have said no, but it is all about timing.
“When Chris approached [me] we had a meeting and I said to my agent ‘oh this is ridiculous, it is never going to work’ and he said ‘no let’s just go and meet Chris’.
“We had this breakfast meeting, [he] got his laptop out, reeled it all off and we both went ‘wow, oh my god’, it was incredible and I was like ‘actually maybe this could work’.”
Chris also opened up on how the idea of bringing Cindy back to Walford came about and it always being “in the back of my mind”.
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He admitted: “I don’t know if it was always part of my master plan, it was always going around in the back of my mind, and it wasn’t until one of our writers had pitched a different story but it was the return of Cindy.
“Everyone gasped and everyone was behind that idea which made me go ‘Well maybe there is something in this’.
“And these things can take a while from idea to screen and things have got to align. I don’t know if it was always part of my plan but it was definitely in the background somewhere.
“We started talking about it well over a year ago and the first thing was when we started we had to look at the story, make sure it was credible,
“And as I said, it is a soap, we didn’t see a body and it was about making sure that worked.”
EastEnders airs Monday-Thursday from 7:30pm on BBC One.
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