Yahoo News EastEnders casts Carry On legend as Bailey's psychic
Note: The following article contains discussion of themes including suicide that some readers may find upsetting.
EastEnders will revisit Dinah Wilson's tragic death with the casting of a Carry On legend.
Earlier this year, the Taylor family discovered that Mitch Baker's (Roger Griffiths) former partner Dinah (Anjela Lauren Smith) had taken her own life after being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.
Since that time, the Taylors have taken in Mitch and Dinah's young daughter Bailey (Kara-Leah Fernandes) to help her through the grieving process.
Later this month, Bailey will attempt to reach out to her mother in the spirit world by enlisting the services of a medium known as Shyanna – to be played by Carry On star Anita Harris.
Chantelle (Jessica Plummer) and the rest of the family are very much against the idea of Bailey meeting with Shyanna, assuming the worst about a medium taking advantage of a young girl in her time of grief.
Bailey ultimately decides to press on with the spiritual reading, and although everything starts off well enough, Chantelle has to get involved when Shyanna pushes things too far.
However, as Chantelle tries to put the medium in her place, Shyanna shares a revelation that shakes her to her very core.
There's no telling yet what Shyanna actually tells Chantelle to startle her, but viewers have seen that she is currently hiding that her husband Gray Atkins (Toby-Alexander Smith) is physically abusive.
Anita Harris is set to guest star as the medium Shyanna in one episode of EastEnders, airing on BBC later in August.
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