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Barry From EastEnders to Return to Soap 21 Years After Being Killed Off
Shaun Williamson returns as Barry Evans to support Nigel Bates's dementia journey in a special EastEnders episode developed with Dementia UK airing this December.
- Next month, Shaun Williamson will reprise Barry Evans in a one-off EastEnders special, appearing as a vision in The Queen Vic alongside Pat Butcher to support Nigel Bates as his dementia worsens.
- EastEnders developed the episode with Dementia UK to shape Nigel's young onset dementia storyline, defined as symptoms developing under the age of 65, after Nigel returned last year.
- Filmed in September, the special sends Nigel back to the 1990s and includes visual callbacks like Pat wearing her identical pink coat from 2016 in the Queen Vic.
- Despite past feuds, Pat Evans and Barry unite to help Nigel, and EastEnders Executive Producer Ben Wadey called Williamson's return a privilege.
- Barry's original on-screen death occurred on January 2, 2004 after being pushed from a cliff, fulfilling Williamson's comment, "Previously chatting to the Mirror, Shaun revealed he would only contemplate rising from the dead for a massive storyline. He explained".
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The Independent (US)Beloved EastEnders character to return to soap 21 years after death
Barry Evans will appear alongside Pat Butcher as part of a dementia storyline
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