DOC LEGGS IT BACK TO ALBERT SQUARE
Veteran Len 92, reunites with Dot, 91
EASTENDERS legend Dr Legg is making a return to Albert Square after more than a decade away.
The bushy-eyebrowed GP will be played again by original cast member Leonard Fenton, who is now aged 92.
His character Dr Harold Legg will come back to Walford this autumn for a plot featuring his old on-screen friend and hypochondriac patient Dot Cotton, played by June Brown.
Leonard, who featured in the first episode of the BBC soap in 1985, said last night: “I am very happy to be back at EastEnders and am looking forward to working with June and the rest of the cast and crew again.”
June, who is 91, added: “It’s been 11 years since Dot last visited her favourite doctor and it’s an utter delight to be working with Leonard Fenton again.”
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The two veteran actors have already filmed scenes where a delighted Dr Legg embraces Dot on his doorstep as she visits him.
In the first episode of the show in February 1985, the doc was called out to certify that Reg Cox, whose body had been found, was dead.
The GP was friends with local matriarch Lou Beale.
Dr Legg stayed in the show until 1997.
Since then he has made the odd guest appearance in The Square – returning for Mark Fowler and Ethel Skinner’s funerals.
EastEnders executive consultant John Yorke said: “It’s a huge honour to have Leonard back in the show and to see him and June working together again for an exciting and emotional story.”