Shaun Williamson will reprise his role as Barry in EastEnders in a special episode next month.<\/p>\n
The Maidstone-born actor, who lives on the Isle of Sheppey, will return to his iconic role 21 years after being killed off.<\/p>\n
Shaun Williamson will return to EastEnders next month in a story involving character Nigel Bates. Picture: BBC<\/p>\n
Shaun, as Barry Evans, will appear alongside step-mum Pat Butcher in The Queen Vic as part of a storyline involving dementia.<\/p>\n
As character Nigel Bates\u2019s dementia symptoms intensify, the soap\u2019s producers say Pat and Barry will put aside their differences to help Nigel in his time of need.<\/p>\n
The special episode will be aired in December.<\/p>\n
Speaking on his return, Shaun said: \u201cIt was a complete shock getting the call to go back to Albert Square, but so exciting.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have to admit to a few nerves (loads!) when I walked back onto the set of The Queen Victoria, but it was so great to work with old friends and colleagues on such a brilliant episode.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust goes to show, you never know what\u2019s around the corner!\u201d<\/p>\n
Since dying on the BBC soap after being pushed off a cliff, Shaun has gone on to back various projects, including saving Seashells nursery centre in Sheerness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shaun Williamson will reprise his role as Barry in EastEnders in a special episode next month. The Maidstone-born…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,192,189,191,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-267252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-human-interest","tag-isle-of-sheppey","tag-kent","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}