EastEnders star looks unrecognisable in smiling throwback with Pat Sharpe – but can you guess who it is?
AN EastEnders favourite has shared a throwback alongside TV star Pat Sharpe – and looks totally unrecognisable.
Luisa Bradshaw-White, who is best known for playing Tina Carter in the BBC One soap, was pictured as a fresh-faced teen in the Instagram post.
Smiling from ear to ear, Luisa, 46, looked beyond excited to be photographed side by side with Fun House host Pat Sharpe.
The then teenage star had tied her hair up into a high ponytail with a red tartan scrunchie, and wore a blue denim jacket to meet the long-haired star.
She smiled for the camera as DJ Pat, 59, placed a kiss on her forehead and wrapped an arm around Luisa in front of the camera.
Actress Luisa wrote of the photo: “Found this when I was looking through some old stuff. Had a crazy crazy crush on Pat Sharpe as a teen!”
The openly gay star went on to joke that the “long hair” had “confused her” when she was younger, before concluding with laughing-faced emojis.
Fans were quick to see the funny side of the throwback snap, who also commented laughing emojis and admitted they also had a crush on Pat.
“This made me smile so much,” one fan wrote in the comments. “I had the same crush and I used to LOVE the Fun House.”
“It was a seriously bad yet amazingly good hair cut,” another joked of Pat’s crazy hair do as a third said: “It was definitely the long hair that did it.”
Earlier this year, Luisa marked Lesbian Visibility Week with a gushing tribute to her wife after 21 loving years together.
The actress used to play Tina Carter in the BBC One soap, but bowed out last year after her character was murdered by evil Gray Atkins.
Thankfully her home life has always been much less rocky than her on-screen one, with the TV favourite married to Annette Yeo and a mum to two adopted daughters.
Luisa gushed over her wife in April: “For those of you who don’t know, I have been with my wife for 21 years. We have two teenager daughters. We are a very happy family. Live your truth.”
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Luisa and Annette adopted three and four year old sisters over 15 years ago, with their two daughters now in their late teens.
The girls were bridesmaids at their mums’ wedding in 2015, with Luisa and Annette first having a civil partnership in 2006.
Earlier this year, Luisa left EastEnders fans disappointed when she confirmed that Tina will not be returning from the dead in an epic plot twist.
Viewers were convinced that she hadn’t actually been killed after the murder was not shown on-screen – and that Tina would be the one to expose Gray’s true colours.
