Gillian Wright respects Lacey Turner for taking a break from EastEnders.
Lacey joined the hit BBC cleaning soap as Stacey Slater in 2004, and after departing Walford in 2010, she returned in 2014, however she is ready to depart later in 2025 to deal with household life along with her husband Matt Kay and their three youngsters – daughters Dusty, 5, and seven-month-old Gipsy, and son Trilby, 4.
Gillian – who has performed Stacey’s mum Jean Slater on-and-off since 2004 – thinks Lacey deserves to have a relaxation from doing EastEnders, and he or she is aware of they may keep in contact off-screen.
She instructed the brand new challenge of Inside Cleaning soap journal: “Everybody asks if I really feel unhappy, and I do not – I applaud her for taking a step again and reuniting herself along with her household.
“There was a interval of eight years the place Lacey was on the present with out me and vice versa, so we’re used to it, and I feel we’re each superb at maintaining one another current in our on-screen lives.”
Gillian is for certain Lacey will come again to EastEnders sooner or later.
She added: “It isn’t just like the character will probably be forgotten, and I am positive we’ll see her again in some unspecified time in the future.
“Lacey deserves this, she’s labored actually onerous.”
Lacey returned to EastEnders from maternity depart in February for James Bye’s exit as Martin Fowler, through the present’s fortieth anniversary week episodes, simply weeks after she gave beginning to Gipsy.
And Lacey now feels it’s the proper time to take a break from the cleaning soap.
Beforehand chatting with The Solar newspaper, she stated: “It’s time for myself and Stacey to take a relaxation, and who is aware of what Stacey will stand up to in her time away?
“Figuring out Stacey, it’s going to by no means be boring.”
An EastEnders spokeswoman stated: “We are able to affirm that Lacey will probably be off-screen later this yr, however there may be loads of drama to come back beforehand and we are going to look ahead to planning Stacey’s return when Lacey decides the time is correct.”
