EastEnders has revealed a first look at Dotty Cotton's return to Walford in newly-released pictures.
Dotty was last seen in 2010, deciding to leave with her mother Sandy. The character was played by Molly Conlin but has been recast for 2019, with Milly Zero taking over the role.
In the first-look images, Dot (June Brown) surprises Stuart Highway (Ricky Champ), Bex Fowler (Jasmine Armfield) and Tiffany Butcher (Maisie Smith) when she returns with her granddaughter.
The pictures are from the Thursday, October 3 episode.
"I am honestly so excited to be playing Dotty Cotton and joining the E20 family, especially playing alongside June Brown, who I have been watching on my telly since I was a young girl," Zero said in July at the time of the announcement of her casting.
"Her and Dotty have such an interesting relationship to explore with a complicated history, so I can't wait to see what the future holds for them. It all feels very surreal and I am buzzing already."
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Meanwhile, Conlin recently admitted that she would have wanted to play Dotty again.
"They did approach me," she said not long after the recasting was confirmed, "[but] unfortunately they wanted the new Dotty to go back and appear a lot older and be played by someone in their 20s.
"Of course I would have loved to have returned to EastEnders, but I believe everything happens for a reason."
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