Lucy Benjamin to make EastEnders comeback

Lucy Benjamin to make EastEnders comeback
Lucy Benjamin to make EastEnders comeback

Actress Lucy Benjamin is set to return to EastEnders seven years after her original departure, according to the papers. The Sunday Mirror reports that Lucy - who played Lisa Fowler in the soap - is one of several old cast members tipped to be making a comeback. She quit the show in 2003, but always said she would like to return at some point. "I loved Lisa and I loved playing those storylines – all that angst and drama," she said. And a source told the paper that Lucy would be returning sooner rather than later. "She has been in talks with them," the insider said. "Lisa is a great character and we look forward to seeing her back on the Square." Lucy first joined the soap in 1998 and was involved in some memorable storylines, most notably when she was revealed as the person who shot her ex-partner Phil Mitchell in 2001. She was last seen fleeing the country with their baby daughter, Louise, who has recently arrived in Albert Square. Lucy was most recently seen on screen in the 2009 series of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here, in which she was the first person to be voted out of the jungle.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.