EastEnders boss teases huge comeback for iconic Slater family member to Albert Square
EASTENDERS boss Chris Clenshaw has hinted Walford legend Little Mo could return.
Mo is the mother of tearaway teenager Freddie who returned to Albert Square last year with actor Bobby Brazier, 19, in the role.
Chris told ITV’s Loose Women today: “Freddie’s in the show, so there is every chance that Little Mo could pop back to Walford.”
Actress Kacey Ainsworth played Little Mo and left the EastEnders in 2006.
She has since gone on to star in a number of theatre and TV roles.
Kacey, now 53, recently appeared to shut down the suggestion she could return to EastEnders saying: “I’ve done so much since I’ve left.
“I’m a regular in an ITV series that’s now…we’re onto our seventh series of that.
“I’ve done so many things. Mrs Lovitt [in Sweeney Todd at the Everyman Theatre], I’ve just finished a play called Lava in London.”
She added that she doesn’t think there’s “room” for a soaps return at present, but did not rule it out completely.
Her character, who become part of the show from 2000, was at the centre of a harrowing domestic abuse storyline with husband Trevor (Alex Ferns).
The powerful role saw her win the 2002 National Television Award for Most Popular Actress, and she twice won the British Soap Award for Best Actress.
Mo famously attacked her husband with an iron – facing prison for attempted murder before being released without charge.
Trevor died in a fire in 2002, with Mo going on to briefly find love with Billy Mitchell.
Little Mo left the Square after her then husband Billy couldn’t face looking after her son Freddie, after he learned he was her rapist’s Graham’s child.
Freddie has since arrived on the square, played by Bobby Brazier – desperate to know the truth about his father.