TWO EastEnders legends have been reunited on stage for a new crime thriller show with a deadly twist.
Adam Woodyatt and his former on-screen wife Laurie Brett – who played Ian and Jane Beale on the BBC soap – will act side-by-side in theatres.
Adam, 53, and Laurie, 52, will start together in the stage production Looking Good Dead, playing husband and wife Tom and Kellie Bryce.
The thriller follows middle-aged man Tom, who accidentally becomes a witness to a horrific murder after picking up an abandoned USB stick.
But when Tom tries to return the USB to its owner, it leads him down a potentially fatal chain of events and compromises his safety.
Detective Superintendent Roy Grace does his best to get to the bottom the crime and protect the Bryce’s while dealing with his own issues.
While Adam initially joined the cast of the show last year, Laurie later joined him to step into the role of his wife Kellie Bryce.
The pair will act in the stage show at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre throughout early March, before moving to Birmingham’s The Alexandra.
Adam, who joined EastEnders in 1985 as Ian, quit his iconic role last year before turning his attentions to the stage.
Meanwhile, Laurie joined the BBC soap’s cast in 2004 as Jane Beale, before she was killed off Albert Square in a brutal shooting in 2017.
Earlier this year, Adam hinted that he could make a surprise return to EastEnders but only if show bosses ask him to come back.
The Walford legend is the BBC soap’s longest-serving character and the only original cast member before he left in 2021.
Following Looking Good Dead, the star has revealed he could very well make a return – if show bosses ask him to come back.
In an interview with The Mirror, Adam said: “They’ve got to come up with a storyline, they’ve got to ask me to go back.”
He continued: “The timing has got to be right for me to go back because I don’t know what else I’m going to be doing.”
Adam’s character was last seen in EastEnders in January in a shock twist.
Ian fled the square in the middle of the night after discovering his wife Sharon Mitchell (Letitia Dean) had been poisoning him.
And it looks like show bosses could very well welcome his return.
A source told The Mirror: “The bosses want Adam back and are prepared to pay – and he knows that. The ratings are suffering at the moment and they need a big boost like Ian Beale returning to Walford.
“They’d known for a while that Danny had wanted to leave but he will still leave a big hole in the show.”
