Were you watching EastEnders last night? If so, you would have seen one of the best 'doof doof' moments for quite some time as Carol realised that the Square's most famous villain was not in fact dead at all, but alive and well and leaving messages on his son Charlie's phone.
Yep, Nick Cotton didn't kick the bucket, even though his long suffering mammy Dot had been told he had just a few months ago. The BBC have now confirmed that the character will be returning to the soap, along with Irish actress Pauline McGlynn aka Mrs Doyle! We were starting to think she was never going to come back after all the fuss that was made of her being on the soap.
Nick Cotton goes back a long way in EastEnders, even appearing in the first ever episode back in 1985, since then he has wreaked havoc every time he has appeared, even trying to poison his dear ma at one point, although backing out of it at the last moment.
Speaking of reprising his role, John Altman said “After a five year break I'm very pleased and much looking forward to returning to EastEnders. With the promise of some hard hitting and gritty storylines, I'm sure the residents of Albert Square will be none too pleased to see Nick Cotton back on the streets of Walford. I'm also looking forward to working alongside Declan Bennett and Pauline McLynn. And of course being reunited and working once again with my ‘dear old Ma’, the wonderful June Brown."
While executive producer, Dominic Treadwell-Collins, added “As we approach EastEnders’ 30th anniversary, it’s only fitting that our original bad boy – and soap’s most iconic villain – returns to Albert Square to cause more trouble for his Ma. It’s time for the indomitable June Brown to have the Nick story to end all Nick stories – and with Declan and Pauline in the mix too, it’s going to be an exciting bumpy ride as the Cottons begin to unravel."
Exciting times and all that, but didn't they already do the 'villain coming back from the dead' story with Den Watts a few years back? Just sayin'.
Wonder who else they could bring back!? We vote Jamie Mitchell, remember that young fella? He was like the Jordan Cadilano of EastEnders for a while there.
