EastEnders’ Thomas Law confesses secret family connection on soap
ok.co.ukEastEnders star Thomas Law is back on the popular BBC soap after 13 years away to reprise his role as Peter Beale. He opens up about his return to the show and reveals that his mum was the one who sparked the idea of him coming back to Walford. “My mum’s a chaperone here, and she introduced herself to Chris Clenshaw (executive producer) at one of the EastEnders parties,” says Thomas. “She obviously mentioned that I’m her son, and I think Chris got very excited by that.
In the same week, he’d spoken to Adam (Woodyatt, who plays Ian) who called me and was like, ‘Fancy getting the band back together?’” “Then I had to keep it very secret, but my mum and sister worked it out.They heard rumblings from work before I even got a chance to tell them.Then when they asked me, I couldn’t keep a straight face.
I mean, your mum always knows when you’re lying, doesn’t she?” Thomas says he’s very close to his family so one perk of rejoining the cast is that he’ll be closer to home. “I spent time in Cape Town, then I was in Los Angeles for three years on and off,” he says. “But now I’m back filming under half an hour away from where I live – it’s too good to be true.
I see my family pretty much every day. "We’ve had a nightmare with losses in the family and cancer has caught a couple of us.
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