Stars who could not stay away…
Brooke paved her way back to Cobbles
BROOKE Vincent has said she persuaded bosses to bring back her on-screen sister Helen Flanagan.
Helen admitted to her that she wanted a return, so Brooke passed the message on to show boss Kate Oates.
Brooke, who is herself coming back to the ITV soap after three months of theatre, said: “I had a conversation with Helen before I was leaving and she said, ‘I’d love to come back’.
“So I told Kate and then I heard something about Helen coming back and I was like, ‘Are you coming back?’ And she said, ‘Yeah, Kate rang’.
“I’m not saying I was the whole thing of it but I mentioned it to Kate.”
Brooke, 24, also told how her character Sophie and sister Rosie’s comeback scene will amuse fans.
She said: “It is quite funny. She says hello to everybody and then you just start seeing all these cases appear and Rosie appears in tow.” HELEN Flanagan is far from the first big name star to make a comeback after years away from a soap. Here are five other memorable returns.
Den Watts – More than 17 million people watched Dirty Den rise from the dead. Actor Leslie Grantham, left, was killed off in 1989, but was brought back in 2003.
Liz McDonald – Star Beverley Callard, right, quit Corrie in 2011, but returned in 2013 after beating depression.
Harold Bishop – Died on Neighbours in 1991, but later the Aussie, played by Ian Smith, left, made an amazing comeback in 1996 after “surviving”.
Nick Cotton – Quit EastEnders in 2001, but actor John Altman, right, returned seven years later.
Bet Lynch – Actress Julie Goodyear, left, returned to the Street in 2002 after a seven-