EastEnders fans predict twist and 'taking bets' on dead character return

A number of 'dead' characters have come back to life over the yearsNewsLiam De Brun TV and Celebrity writer20:00, 19 Mar 2025EastEnders fans are predicting a big plot twist is on the way as they said they are ‘taking bets’ on when a missing character will return from the dead.Returning from the dead is not a rarity on the BBC soap, with a number of characters believed to be gone forever returning to Albert Square over the years.‌Article continues belowIn one of the more famous examples, Dirty Den Watts stepped in the Queen Vic 14 years after he was shot and fell into the Walford canal in 1989.Sadly for Den, who was revealed to have been living in Spain for more than a decade, he was killed less than two years later in February, 2005, when his wife Chrissie hit him was a doorstop.Another EastEnders fake-out death was Kathy Beale, with viewers informed in 2006 that she died in a car crash in South Africa with her then-husband Gavin Sullivan.‌After years of fans manifesting Ian Beale's mu...