Potential New Enders

With news that Maggie O’Neil, of Shameless fame (who played our favourite character in the series, Shelia Jackson) is set to join EastEnders in the summer we cast our eye over other actresses and actors we’d like to see join the Capital soap.

With news that Maggie O’Neil, of Shameless fame (who played our favourite character in the series, Shelia Jackson) is set to join EastEnders in the summer we cast our eye over other actresses and actors we’d like to see join the Capital soap.

Jane Asher

Currently enjoying a stint in Holby City which is actually filmed in the same studios as EastEnders. As well as Holby Jane Asher has previous soap experience playing bitchy Angel Samson in the short-lived 2003 version of hotel soap, Crossroads. We’d love to see Jane Asher pop up in Albert Square as an Angel-esque style character who can’t help but bitch and scheme her way through Walford. She could also work her way through a fare share of the male residents until she found she ran out of wealthy men to rip-off, or until there was just Ian Beale left and no one really wants to go there, do they?

Stephaine Beacham

Of The Colby’s/Dynasty/Bad Girls fame, another actress famed for playing glamorous and bitchy roles. To be frank we’d like to see her reprise her role of Costa Con Phyl and turn up in Albert Square with Bev (Amanda Barrie) and rip off several of the thicker residents – let’s be frank they’d have a field day in Albert Square! And with Bad Girls axed it’s the only likely way we’d see them back on our screens as the fab Costa Cons – and Yvonne Atkins is already there pretending to be Shirley Carter!

Scott Neal

Played sexy/cute gay copper Luke Aston in The Bill several years ago and hasn’t been seen on our screens since – simply criminally! Scott could turn up as a new boyfriend for Christian but end up playing away with another male resident too. And it’s not as if Walford doesn’t have its share of ex Bill cast members – Phil Hunter is parading around the square as a Branning after all!

Best known for roles in Shine On Harvey Moon and Birds of a Feather Linda also popped up in Crossroads alongside Jane Asher. EastEnders needs a new rough character, a schemer, a chancer, someone to work with Big Mo on her various dodgy schemes and Linda Robson would make the perfect addition to the cast. We could just see her drinking in the Vic or giving her all in a slanging match with various residents!

Lesley Joseph

Again best known for Birds of a Feather, alongside Linda Robson, but was a regular character in Night and Day. The defunct ITV soap may have been confined to the archives forever but Lesley Joseph’s character, as Aunt Rachel, was one of the better points of the wacky daytime soap. She was dam right creepy and utterly bonkers, always scheming and manipulating, and she’d be just perfect for Albert Square. A new resident with a dark secret and connections to the Square’s past.