Soap actress Patsy Kensit confirmed to join EastEnders
Patsy Kensit will be joining EastEnders, a representative of the soap confirmed to the PA news agency.
he, the 54-year-old actress, has been to Emmerdale and Holby City soaps but not at Albert Square.
PA understands that she will be joining the cast “for a brief time” for the series.
The Sun reports that she will play a role in “one of their biggest current stories” and is expected to appear around Christmas.
Close
Patsy Kensit, right, and Kate Moss take part in the Miss Platinum pageant in front of Buckingham Palace in June (Yui Mok/PA)
It was previously reported that Kensit said she “likes” doing EastEnders and plays a “strong matriarch” like Peggy Mitchell, who was played by the late Dame Barbara Windsor for 22 years.
Kensit told Radio Times in 2019: “My father was involved in organized crime in the East End, so I grew up around those villains and that setting.
“And I can pull a pin and say, ‘You’re banned’.”
In June, she was one of hundreds of celebrities selected to travel on decorated, open-top double-decker buses for decades-old celebrations at the grand finale of the Bach Mai festival. needle.
In the 1990s, Kensit was accompanied by actor Idris Elba, singer Courtney Love, supermodel Erin O’Connor and All Saints singers Natalie and Nicole Appleton atop one of the cars.
Kensit also said in March she was “deeply saddened” when the medical drama Holby City ended after 23 years on screen with an emotional finale that celebrated the spirit of the NHS.
Video of the day
She played nurse Faye Morton and told her Twitter followers: “I’ve had a great four and a half years on the show and I love it.”
Kensit, who sang with the band Eighth Wonder in the 1980s, also appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2015.
She has one son, James, with Simple Minds musician Jim Kerr and another, Lennon, with former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/soap-actress-patsy-kensit-confirmed-to-join-eastenders-42120454.html Soap actress Patsy Kensit confirmed to join EastEnders
