Rickaaay!!!

RICKY and Bianca have returned to Albert Square, but they haven’t come back to many familiar faces.

On their return Patsy Palmer, who plays Bianca, was turfed out of a B&B with her children because she didn’t pay and Ricky was seen at the funeral of his father Frank Butcher.

I think the only characters who were in the programme when they left were Pat, Ian, Peggy, Phil and Dot. Although I might be wrong.

The producers of the soap must have brought R+B back to liven up a programme which has long failed to repeat its glory days of the 1980s and 1990s.

The return of Ricky and Bianca seems to have had a positive effect on the soap’s viewing figures. A total of 10.1 million viewers watched their return on Tuesday, April 1. The show normally has eight or nine million viewers for that night.

I stopped watching EastEnders years ago because I got fed up with weak storylines and poor characters. But the return of these two may make me tune back in.

Who can forget Bianca screaming “Rickaaay” everytime Ricky had done something wrong.

Their return has certainly been well publicised. They have been on the front of almost all of the TV magazines, and the BBC have been using Ricky and Bianca on all their adverts for the show.

Ricky and Bianca aren’t together now, and Bianca’s new man is in jail, and she has four kids.

Will Ricky and Bianca get back together?