Iconic EastEnders character to return 35 years after debut for 40th anniversary

Grant is back! (Picture: BBC/Jack Barnes/Kieron McCarron)It’s official – a New Year treat – Ross Kemp is staging a huge return to EastEnders as Grant Mitchell this year, after 9 years away.The actor, 60, appeared as the Walford hard man on the long-running BBC drama intermittently between 1990 and 2016, and is now set to reprise the part for the upcoming 40th anniversary celebrations.At the end of November, pictures showed him driving out of the soap’