Loose Women star Sunetra Sarker has confirmed she’s heading back to Casualty after seven years.
The actress revealed the news during an episode of Loose Women on Friday (September 8) where she appeared alongside the other Loose Ladies.
“This week, I might have gone back to a certain hospital that I used to work at called Holby City hospital,” she teased.
She then confirmed: “I’m going back to Casualty,” as the studio audience roared with applause.
“It must be seven years I left in 2016 and yeah, it has been a while.”
She explained: “I’m going back for a special double episode because our lovely Charlie who has been there forever is going to leave the show. So I’m going back to make sure I get my last little moment with him.”
As fans of the show will know, Charlie Fairhead, played by Derek Thompson, is set to leave the BBC drama after 37 years.
Sunetra played Dr Zoe Hanna on the programme for nine series until leaving in 2016.
The Loose Women star revealed she quit the show at the time because she wanted to “find something very different.”
After her Casualty stint, she bagged a role on Channel 4’s Ackley Bridge playing Kaneez Paracha – a character who was “exactly what [she] was looking for”.
Appearing on Zoe Ball.. Sunday in 2018, Sunetra said: “She looks nothing like me, she sounds nothing like me.
“She’s funny and she has a personality in a way that you don’t usually see a Pakistani woman having…”
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