EastEnders first look as Tameka Empson’s Kim Fox makes shock return to Albert Square from Scotland

EASTENDERS’ Tameka Empson will make a shock return to the Square as Kim Fox next week. More than a year after swapping Walford for Scotland to start a new life, Kim is back in typically outrageous fashion. Showing her fondness for her time north of the border, Kim arrives home dressed head to toe in […]

EASTENDERS’ Tameka Empson will make a shock return to the Square as Kim Fox next week.

More than a year after swapping Walford for Scotland to start a new life, Kim is back in typically outrageous fashion.

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Kim Fox returns to EastEnders next Monday[/caption]

Showing her fondness for her time north of the border, Kim arrives home dressed head to toe in tartan.

Clutching two matching bags and with bright red hair, her infectious energy is sure to put a smile on viewers’ faces.

However, her joyous return might be short lived as she gets up to speed on the difficult year her sister Denise has had fighting for custody of son Raymond.

In the summer, Tameka revealed she secretly had a baby boy during her break from the soap.

The 43-year-old revealed the news on Loose Women when asked what she had been doing during lockdown.

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Tameka Empson had a baby during her break from the soap[/caption]

The actress explained: “I’ve been contributing to the human race. Yes I have a baby boy. A bouncing baby boy.”

Asked how she was coping with having two children, Tameka explained: “Nothing prepares you for it.

“I’ve been with my daughter who is six and doing homeschooling and then you’ve got a newborn. You’ve just got to watch everything.”

She added: “He’s sleeping now, which helps. But I’m made of the good stuff. I’ve come through it OK.”

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The star on EastEnders as Kim Fox sitting in the Square with Sonia Fowler[/caption]

Asked why she kept the birth a secret, she explained: “It wasn’t so much deliberate. I just wanted to enjoy it.

“A baby comes and you want to enjoy it before everyone says ‘How’s he doing etc.’ But now he’s here and he’s loud!”

EastEnders fans were delighted by the news, with one writing: “Awww Tameka had a baby!!”

Another dubbed her a “secretive queen” for managing to keep the whole thing under wraps for so long.

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Her character went into labour on screen in 2018 – in front of Phil Mitchell[/caption]

Tameka left the soap last year after ten years on screen with the character leaving to live in Scotland to start a new life and job after months of rows at the salon.

Aside from EastEnders, Tameka is known to viewers for her stint on Strictly Come Dancing in 2016, when she was partnered with Gorka Marquez.

They were the second pairing to leave the competition that year.