EastEnders legend joins rival BBC show in top secret role
EASTENDERS legend Anita Dobson is set to make her acting comeback as she joins another BBC show.
The star is best known her role as Angie Watts in the London based serial drama.
The BBC has announced that Anita, 73, has joined the cast of Doctor Who in a new mystery role.
Anita will jopin It’s A Sin and After Life star Michelle Greenidge, 52 in the long-running drama series.
Three special episodes will air in 2023, which will coincide with the 60th anniversary of the show.
David Tennent returns to the series as the Fourteenth Doctor before Sex Education star Ncuti Gatwa takes over the role.
Comic actress Catherine Tate will also reprise her role as Donna Noble.
Fans will have to wait untill the festive period in 2023 to see the Fifteenth iteration of the Time Lord make his debut.
They also await the introduction of former Coronation Street actress Millie Gibson into the series, who will make her debut on the popular show as Ruby Sunday.
Fans are already speculating Anita could possibly play the grandmother of the new companion as her role in the drama is up in the air.
Anita, who is married to Queen rockstar Brian May, played the original barmaid of the Queen Vic from the first episode of the show in 1985 untill 1988.
She was involved in several major storylines, including the moment she lied to her husband about a fake cancer diagnosis.
Her character claimed she only had six months to live, in a bid to keep her relationship alive with her husband Den, played by Leslie Grantham.
There was another moment that would live in soap infamy when ‘Dirty’ Den Watts, upon discovering the secret, served her divorce papers on Christmas.