I’ll always be proud of shooting Phil Mitchell Lisa back in Eastenders in crazy’ week
EILEEN Grimshaw’s luck with blokes continues, as she yells for help while her lover lies dying on the Corrie cobbles after being gunned down.
This week, the taxi switchboard operator will learn the truth about EASTENDERS star Lucy Benjamin loves that t her character Lisa gunned unned down Phil Mitchell.
And the whodunnit that followed was so popular that she is still quizzed about it. t.
Some fans want her to return and finish the job.
Well, they might just be e in luck as Lucy returns to o
Albert Square next month.
Lucy, 49, said fans often stop her in the street asking her to go back and
“sort him out”, more than
18 years after she pulled the trigger. Lucy, who o played Lisa for five years rs from 1998 and made brief ef returns in 2010 and 2017, will cause more trouble for Phil, hil, played by Steve Mcfadden, n, 60. her Polish ex-boyfriend Jan Lozinski in emotional scenes.
Eileen, played by Sue Cleaver, got her wires crossed thinking Jan was a people smuggler when he is actually a police informer helping to smash a people trafficking ring.
He returns this week to explain all She said: ““There’s more of what you’d hope to come come.
“S “She always causes trouble. People ask me all the time to go back and sort Ph Phil out.
“I’m proud to have h been the p person to have to the Street Cars worker – and begs her to run away with him.
But scheming Rachel Healy, who uses her nail bar as a front for smuggling in young girls from eastern Europe for slave labour, has other plans for Jan.
She is watching them from her car pulled the trigger in that iconic storyline – I know several have shot him since but I was first. It’s incredible how people still remember it.”
The plot gripped the nation and more than 22 million viewers saw Lisa revealed as the shooter back in 2001.
It was the start of a bitter feud between the warring parents, with daughter Louise stuck in the middle.
Lucy started filming in June and worked with Patsy Palmer, 47, back for a short stint as Bianca.
She was also reunited with Lisa’s best mate Mel Owen, played by Tamzin Outhwaite, 48.
Lucy said: “When I came back two years ago it was only for a few weeks. It was an isolated story as Louise was in hospital, so I didn’t see many of the cast. When I came across the road and, wanting to keep him silent, she pulls the trigger.
But perhaps he will survive and the couple will rekindle their love and live happily ever after?
Given this is Corrie and her last boyfriend, Pat Phelan, was a serial killer, we suspect not. back in June, seeing familiar faces, and with both Patsy and Tamzin back, it was just a joy. It was like coming home.”
Viewers will be able to see Lucy’s return during an explosive week of episodes surrounding Whitney Dean and Callum Highway’s wedding, Hunter Owen’s escape from prison, and the disappearance of Lisa and Phil’s pregnant daughter Louise and her boyfriend Keanu Taylor.
Lucy said: “Lisa is a joy to play because she is so layered. And what a week for her to return.
“It’s all going on – drama follows her around and I wouldn’t have it any other way. When I saw the scripts I remember saying ‘flippin’ heck this is just crazy.’”
She returns in the special episodes from September 2.