The much-loved Doctor Who<\/a> actress made a strong impression as Carmel Kazemi in the BBC One soap after making her debut in 2015<\/a> as the bubbly mother of market trader Kush Kazemi (Davood Ghadami), later moving to Walford with her son Shakil (Shaheen Jafargholi).<\/p>\n After a fair few feuds and romances, Carmel departed Walford in 2018 after losing her son Shakil to knife crime<\/a>, moving to Dubai.<\/p>\n Since then, Carmel\u2019s eldest son Kush was murdered<\/a> by serial killer Gray Atkins (portrayed by Toby-Alexander Smith) in 2021. Carmel did not return for a funeral and Kush\u2019s remains were sent to Dubai.<\/p>\n Despite the tragedy that befell the character, could Langford ever see herself reprising the role, particularly with the soap celebrating its 40th anniversary next year?<\/p>\n When asked about the prospect of a Carmel comeback, Langford told RadioTimes.com<\/a>: \u201cShe\u2019s apparently sunning herself in Dubai or she was in a taxi on the way there. She took a long time and got rather wet.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know, in light of Doctor Who, you just cannot predict anything. Because if someone had said to me 37 years ago, you would be playing this character again, in a different form but, you know, that will be essentially her in 37 years, I would have laughed and gone, \u2018Are you kidding me? No.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cSo, anything can happen. Anything can happen, and this is the whole beauty of storytelling. You can tell whatever story you like, and I would be delighted to, and I\u2019ve got loads of friends there now as well.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d love to go and see\u2026 I would never put a kibosh on anything, because I think anything is possible. It\u2019s important, sometimes people want to know what happened \u2013 what happened next?<\/p>\n \u201cSo, you never know. Carmel has got a grandson, Arthur, still there, and has a lot of history and a lot of friends, but you just don\u2019t know, so you never say never!\u201d<\/p>\n The actress can be seen reprising her classic Doctor Who role as Mel Bush in the upcoming two-part finale, beginning with this Saturday\u2019s instalment The Legend of Ruby Sunday, which she described to us<\/a> as \u201ccamp as hell!\u201d.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Langford\u2019s debut as Carmel will arrive on BBC iPlayer later this month, when the EastEnders 2015 box set arrives<\/a> on the streaming service on 25th June 2024.<\/p> Doctor Who continues Saturdays on BBC One and iPlayer.<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out more of our\u00a0Sci-Fi<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to find out what\u2019s on.\u00a0<\/strong>For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0The Radio Times Podcast.<\/a><\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Could Bonnie Langford return to Walford? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":53124,"template":"","categories":[1,2,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/bonnie-langford-on-potential-eastenders-return-carmel-still-has-a-grandson-there-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/bonnie-langford-on-potential-eastenders-return-carmel-still-has-a-grandson-there-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/bonnie-langford-on-potential-eastenders-return-carmel-still-has-a-grandson-there-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/bonnie-langford-on-potential-eastenders-return-carmel-still-has-a-grandson-there-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/bonnie-langford-on-potential-eastenders-return-carmel-still-has-a-grandson-there-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/bonnie-langford-on-potential-eastenders-return-carmel-still-has-a-grandson-there-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/bonnie-langford-on-potential-eastenders-return-carmel-still-has-a-grandson-there-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Could Bonnie Langford return to Walford?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/53123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ncuti](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/480291-6e37ccd.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413\" "\\"480291,Doctor")
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