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EastEnders Star Returns to Albert Square After 30 Years
EastEnders revisits 1990s memories in a special episode showing Nigel Bates's dementia journey, featuring multiple returning characters in collaboration with Dementia UK.
- On December 23, BBC One will air a special EastEnders episode featuring Nicola Duffett returning as Debbie Bates. The episode airs at 7.30pm.
- After his return to Walford on Tuesday, Nigel Bates, portrayed by Paul Bradley, faces worsening young-onset dementia as the episode revisits the 1990s.
- The episode features memory sequences with Debbie Bates, played by Nicola Duffett, reconnecting her with Nigel Bates during his dementia storyline, using flashbacks of her 1993 debut and 1995 death.
- EastEnders partnered with Dementia UK on the storyline, with producers' use of memory sequences to depict declining recall and ensure a sensitive portrayal.
- Debbie first appeared in Walford in 1993; her 1995 hit-and-run death and Nigel Bates' adoption of Clare, with Clare and Dot Branning visiting the grave in 2008, raise emotional stakes.
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EastEnders character Debbie Bates returns alongside Barry Evans and Pat Butcher
The character, played by Nicola Duffett, is among the shock returns to the soap.
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EastEnders Debbie Bates to make surprise soap return as Nigel's dementia takes tragic turn - The Mirror
Debbie Bates actress Nicola Duffett is set to make a return to Walford as she reprises her role as Debbie in a special episode, which sees Nigel take a turn for the worse amid his dementia
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