If Charlie Slater (Derek Martin) does not appear in Friday's episode for the birth of Kat's twins I will be very surprise!

I don't think it's quite as inevitable as Anthony for Patrick (something in Lacey's interview made it sound like he isn't there.)

Imagine if Zoe is the surprise return . She has had a few mentions in the past couple weeks.

DTC might think it would be too confusing to have too Charlies in the cast at the same time

DS would go on overdrive
although it could be any slater.
Sean would be better

This is true although I don't think Charlie Cotton appears on Friday, so who knows.

Can think why Sean would be better to retun for birth of Kat's twins over Zoe - if Stacey was having a baby fair point but not in this case

Sean would be better as a longer return like Jean, but he wouldn't add anything showing up for Kat's twins. He won't have seen Kat for 15 years+ and is second cousin to the twins. Much better that their grandfather or half-sister show up.

They can be easily seperated by attractiveness

This seems to imply that it's been confirmed there will even be a surprise return... is this the case?

It wouldn't shock me if someone along the lines of Charlie visited, but I wasn't aware that it was solid fact that a return was actually happening.

So why else have they not released any photos from Fridays episode? Pits looking likely that we are getting a surprise return.

Nope, it's not been confirmed. I think it's more that now they're happening more often, we're starting to anticipate them (as many did with Anthony for Patrick, and they were proved right there.)

If Zoe does return, then I really hope she doesn't start up that excessive whining once again.

I do see Charlie returning more so than anybody else.

It's Chrissie Watts, she's back for revenge

They may have anticipated that and make the surprise Ronnie who is now working as a maternity nurse.

This! Just one or two episodes would be good, so that we see Kat with all of her kids and hear more about what she's up to these days.

There are pictures on the DS spoiler article for Friday so I haven't gota CLUE what you're talking about.

I did not know that.mi was just saying what I've heard.

To be fair, it does seem a little strange that they haven't released any pictures of the twins from the actual episode, only the promos.

I'm still gutted by the twins' names

Maybe, but for a short stint it wouldn't be much of problem. After all, there was a time when Billy and Billie were both in the show (before Kirkwood killed off Billie because of his personal grudge against the actor).

I remember Charlie being pretty dull the first time round, I can't understand why so many people want him back!

I think he's another one that people want back short term for realism purposes. It doesn't seem right that he'd show up for his daughter's last night in the pub then fail to show to see his grandkids. Especially as he feels he let Kat down as it was his brother that raped her. Doesn't have to be Friday of course, just sometime.

It's also fair to say that people would rather see Zoe, but Michelle Ryan is unlikely to return and we know Derek Martin would like to.

It's the co-stars that want him back full time.