EastEnders' Aunt Babe star looks world away from Walford as she glams up with bright white hair for

Posted by Aldo Pusey on Sunday, September 22, 2024

EASTENDERS actress Annette Badland looked very different to Walford's Babe Smith as she glammed up for a Hollywood awards show.

Annette Badland, who is Shirley and Tina's aunt in the soap, accepted a prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

She looks a world away from Walford glammed up with bright white hair and a purple gown.

Annette was with her co-stars in the streaming hit Ted Lasso, where she plays tough landlady Mae.

She was alongside Jason Sudeikis, Brett Goldstein, Juno Temple and Hannah Waddingham as they scooped Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.

However, as they are filming the series in London - where the football club comedy is set - they accepted the prize remotely.

Hollywood star Jason accepted the prize on behalf of the group, saying: "Thank you very much to all you guys first and foremost, thank you. There's my ensemble cast of Ted Lasso."

Annette, 71, first appeared in EastEnders in 2014 as part of a set of new characters that expanded the Carter family.

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Babe was last seen being slung out of the Queen Vic after is was discovered she left her sister Sylvie to die and hasn't been seen since 2017.

Speaking last year the actress, who could make a return to EastEnders, said she got death threats from playing the evil character.

She told Distinct Nostalgia: “People did believe I was Babe, which was shocking. It was the first time people didn’t say to me, ‘Oh I can’t remember your name but I liked you in that thing the other night’. 

“For EastEnders it was, ‘You all right, Babe? How is Babe today? Aren’t you a one?’

“Most people loved her and enjoyed the naughtiness of it but towards the end I did have death threats which is very shocking and frightening.

"It is a tricky thing that you go, ‘Oh this is wonderful that people think she is real,’ and then there are people who go with it and don’t enjoy it or it offends them as they think it is real and they want revenge.

“She ruffled some feathers as the character and the police told me, ‘You don’t tell anyone where you are going. You always have a phone’.

“You can go, ‘Oh this is just some poor person and nothing is going to happen,’ but you just don’t know."

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