...AND WE’RE BACK FROM THE DEAD!
Of course, soap stars have been known to come back from the dead. A veteran of Australian soap Neighbours, Harold Bishop, played by Ian Smith, vanished near a cliff edge in 1991 after suffering a heart attack, but Ian Smith’s character returned in 1996, and his second spell on the show was far longer than the first, lasting until 2009, with further occasional cameos.
Gillian Taylforth had a staggering 15-year break from EastEnders after her character, Kathy Beale, supposedly died in a car crash in South Africa. But she returned to Albert Square in 2015 for the BBC soap’s 30th anniversary and described her back-fromthe-dead experience as
“very, very emotional”.