EastEnders star Balvinder Sopal is being eyed to participate in Strictly Come Dancing.
The 46-year-old actress, who portrays Suki Panesar-Unwin on the BBC cleaning soap, is about to grow to be the most recent Albert Sq. resident to take part within the in style Saturday evening dancing collection when it returns to screens later this yr.
A supply instructed The Solar newspaper: “EastEnders has been a contented searching floor for Strictly bosses for the reason that present first aired and so they consider Balvinder will likely be an enormous hit with followers.
“She’s excited by the prospect, too, as she feels viewers will see a special aspect to her.”
Balvinder has performed steely matriarch Suki in EastEnders since 2020 and was initially depicted as a villain – faking most cancers to win over her household after they turned towards her.
Suki ultimately gained them over and managed to flee the clutches of her abusive husband Nish (Navin Chowdhry), who had tried to kill her after discovering her secret lesbian affair with Eve Unwin (Heather Peace).
The character married her lover after hiding her true sexuality all through her grownup life and Balvinder was honoured for her portrayal of Suki with the Cleaning soap Celebrity accolade eventually yr’s Inside Cleaning soap Awards.
Previous to showing in EastEnders, Sopal had performed minor roles within the cleaning soap operas Emmerdale, Coronation Road and Medical doctors.
Balvinder will comply with within the footsteps of varied EastEnders stars who’ve competed for the Glitterball Trophy lately – with the record together with Jamie Borthwick, Bobby Brazier and Rose Ayling-Ellis.
A BBC spokesman stated of the report: “We do not touch upon hypothesis.”
Strictly celebrated its twentieth anniversary final yr and decide Anton Du Beke thinks it’s outstanding that the programme has endured regardless of scheduled TV turning into “a factor of the previous”.
The 58-year-old star stated: “I don’t assume it’ll be lengthy now till scheduled tv will likely be a factor of the previous. So to have a present like Strictly Come Dancing, which needs to be a scheduled present since you need the viewers to vote and sit collectively and watch the present, it’s unbelievable that it’s nonetheless going now on this present local weather and as strongly as it’s.
“Folks do need to watch one thing nice that they’ll watch collectively. That has at all times been that unicorn factor that everyone desires to look at collectively.”
