EastEnders fans convinced legend is making a shock return as part of George’s baby farming plot – eight years after exit
The actress has recently starred in a huge award-winning drama
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EASTENDERS fans think a show legend could return as part of a major new baby farming storyline.
In the coming weeks George Knight will attempt to come to terms with the way in which he was put up for adoption as a child.
As a youngster George’s birth parents advertised for prospective parents to pay a sum of money to father him.
The arrival in the square of his adoptive parents Gloria and Eddie will lead him to question everything he thought he knew about his upbringing.
Viewers have now made a potential link between George’s family and Aunt Babe (Annette Badland), who left the Square eight years ago.
They recalled how Babe had been involved with baby farming in the past and believe it’s plausible she was somehow involved in George’s transaction.
One viewer wrote on X: “omg wait this is such a good way to bring aunt babe back.”
Another said: “Need her back asap.”
A third wrote: “Oh I hope she’s coming back.”
Babe was last seen being slung out of the Queen Vic after is was discovered she left her sister Sylvie to die.
She has most recently worked on award-winning Apple+ show Ted Lasso, playing tough landlady Mae, alongside Jason Sudeikis.
Annette’s soap exit was a troubling end for a character who was widely-loved by viewers for her naughtiness.
In her four years on the soap, Annette became synonymous with her soap character.
Speaking last year the actress, who could make a return to EastEnders, said she got death threats from playing the evil character.
She told Distinct Nostalgia: “People did believe I was Babe, which was shocking. It was the first time people didn’t say to me, ‘Oh I can’t remember your name but I liked you in that thing the other night’.
“For EastEnders it was, ‘You all right, Babe? How is Babe today? Aren’t you a one?’
“Most people loved her and enjoyed the naughtiness of it but towards the end I did have death threats which is very shocking and frightening.
“It is a tricky thing that you go, ‘Oh this is wonderful that people think she is real,’ and then there are people who go with it and don’t enjoy it or it offends them as they think it is real and they want revenge.
“She ruffled some feathers as the character and the police told me, ‘You don’t tell anyone where you are going. You always have a phone’.
“You can go, ‘Oh this is just some poor person and nothing is going to happen,’ but you just don’t know.”
