East Enders

EastEnders confirms return for Sharon Watts – and she gets a major shock

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Sharon Watts walks into her home in EastEnders
Sharon Watts arrives back home – just in time for some high drama! (Picture: BBC/Jack Barns/Kieron McCarron)
It has been five long months since EastEnders icon Sharon Watts (Letitia Dean) last graced our screens, but the date of her return has finally been confirmed.

The soap legend waltzes back into Walford next Monday, but has an almighty shock waiting for her upon her arrival.

That’s because, in the months since leaving for Australia to support her grieving friend Michelle Fowler (Jenna Russell), Sharon’s old foe Zoe Slater (Michelle Ryan) is back on the Square after 20 years.

As long-standing EastEnders fans will remember, Sharon and Zoe share quite a history, as during her original stint in Walford, Zoe had an affair with Sharon’s father Den Watts (Leslie Grantham) while she was dating Sharon’s adoptive brother Dennis Rickman (Nigel Harman).

Then, of course, Zoe was later involved in a fateful night in The Queen Vic, which saw Den’s wife Chrissie Watts (Tracy-Ann Oberman) murder him and lead Zoe to believe she was the one who’d dealt the fatal blow.

While her siblings Vicki Fowler (Alice Haig) and Zack Hudson (James Farrar) lay on a welcome, she remains fixated on Zoe and goes to confront her. But to everyone’s surprise, she calls a truce with her in The Vic.

However, this is Walford after all, so you can bet that peace will not last…

‘It’s explosive when Sharon arrives and finds out that Zoe is back in the Square,’ says Alice Haig, who plays Vicki, warning of ‘unfinished business’ between Vicki, Sharon and Zoe.

‘It wasn’t just the affair with Den, it was also that he convinced Zoe to lie about being pregnant by Dennis, and then there’s the murder. It’s as if a whole nightmare has now resurfaced,’ she explains.

‘There are lots of twists and turns to come, but it’s safe to say that they are both very, very angry with Zoe. However, there are moments when Sharon and Vicki want to be on the same page, but don’t quite succeed…’