{"id":27137,"date":"2022-12-14T13:04:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1755661"},"modified":"2022-12-14T13:25:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T12:25:28","slug":"eastenders-had-secret-code-name-to-keep-keanu-taylor-return-a-secret","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/eastenders-had-secret-code-name-to-keep-keanu-taylor-return-a-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"EastEnders had secret code name to keep Keanu Taylor return a secret"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Lewis Knight\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 14 December 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Keanu Taylor has made his big return to EastEnders<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and the soap used a secret code name to keep his return a secret.<\/p>\n

Actor Danny Walters made an unannounced return to the soap<\/a> on Tuesday night (13th December 2022) as Keanu walked back onto Albert Square under the cover of darkness following the funeral of Dot Branning.<\/p>\n

Of course, Keanu\u2019s mother Karen Taylor (Lorraine Stanley) will be delighted to see him but it remains to be seen what his former lover Sharon Watts (Letitia Dean) will say now Keanu is home, considering their affair destroyed her marriage to Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) and resulted in the birth of her and Keanu\u2019s son, Albie Watts.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s never easy keeping a shock return a secret from EastEnders\u2019 ever-devoted fan base, but the production team had a secret code name in and around the production of the show to hide Keanu\u2019s return.<\/p>

Speaking to RadioTimes.com<\/a> and other press at an event in December, members of the production team and Danny Walters revealed that Keanu was referred to as \u201cNeo\u201d.<\/p>\n

Of course, this is a reference to Keanu Reeves\u2019s character Neo in the Matrix film franchise.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time this tactic was used this year either, with Shane Richie\u2019s return as Alfie Moon initially kept a secret with the cheeky chappie referred to as \u201cCarlo\u201d.<\/p>\n