{"id":21815,"date":"2025-07-25T03:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T03:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/21815\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T03:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T03:19:12","slug":"eastenders-forced-to-scrap-return-plot-for-fan-favourite-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/21815\/","title":{"rendered":"EastEnders forced to scrap return plot for fan-favourite character"},"content":{"rendered":"

An EastEnders<\/a> fan favourite was close to returning for the show’s big 40th anniversary<\/a>, but plans for a comeback were ultimately scrapped.<\/p>\n

Soap star Lin Blakley shared that her character Pam Coker was asked back earlier in the year, though she had to decline due to a scheduling conflict.<\/p>\n

“It’s funny because at the beginning of the year, February, I was just about to go on holiday and the guy in casting rang my agent and said, ‘Ask Lin, I want her to come back in for three eps with the hope of maybe coming back in permanently,'” Blakley said on Isolation Interviews<\/a> with Matthew Rolland. <\/p>\n

“But it never happened because I couldn’t,” she added.<\/p>\n

“I had a friend I was going away with and I didn’t want to let her down, so I didn’t.”<\/p>\n

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Kieron McCarron \/ Jack Barnes\/\/BBC<\/p>\n

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Blakley said she still harboured hopes she’d be asked once she got back from her trip, as she was only away for ten days, but a second call never came.<\/p>\n

“But who knows? You never know in this game, and if I did go back, I’d love it,” she added, leaving the door very much open on a return to Walford.<\/p>\n

Blakley joined the cast of EastEnders in 2014 as Pam, Les Coker’s wife, with fans praising the chemistry between her and co-star Roger Sloman.<\/p>\n

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Kieron McCarron \/ Jack Barnes\/\/BBC<\/p>\n

Related: EastEnders reveals unexpected Suki twist in Avani pregnancy story<\/a><\/p>\n

The couple was written out in 2016, though Blakley reprised the role of Pam on a regular basis. Her last Walford appearance dates back to 2022 when Pam returned to the Square<\/a> to offer her support to Ben Mitchell<\/a> in the aftermath of a homophobic attack.<\/p>\n

Pam encouraged Ben to open up knowing all too well the viciousness of anti-LGBTQ+ crime. Her grandson Paul, who was dating Ben, was killed in an off-screen homophobic attack<\/a> back in 2016.<\/p>\n

After leaving the role of Pam, Blakley crossed over to another soap, joining Emmerdale as Georgia Sharma<\/a> for a short stint in 2023.<\/p>\n

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