EastEnders fans thrilled as icon returns 20 years after shocking murder

Caption: (Picture: BBC/Metro)There’s seemingly nothing soap fans love more than a return, and EastEnders viewers are in for an early Christmas present this year when undisputed Walford icon, Sam Mitchell (Kim Medcalf) returns for a short stint next month.Though much speculation had arisen last month when fan-shot drone footage emerged from the Elstree Studio set that appeared to show Sam back on the square, there’d been no official word of her return until yesterday, when the offici