Abi Branning (Lorna Fitzgerald)

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EastEnders return for Tanya Branning?
EastEnders could see the return of Jo Joyner as Tanya Branning if Lorna Fitzgerald gets her way.
The actress, who has played Abi Branning for the last decade, says she thinks it’s about time her on-screen mum came back to Walford.
Lorna believes that given all the drama that’s going on in Abi’s life right now she could do with the help and support of her mum.
She said: “I’d love it if we could have a family reunion. Abi needs her mum! Tanya needs to make her a cup of tea, sit her down and help sort her life out.
“There’s a lot coming up and I feel very lucky to be getting such great storylines. It’s been an incredible ten years when I look back on it all. I’m really enjoying what we’re filming at the moment. It’s keeping me very busy and I couldn’t be happier.”
Speaking the the Daily Star Sunday’s Susan Hill, she added: “I’ve loved all the stuff that I’ve been doing recently. It’s been a gradual transition into more mature storylines.”

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EastEnders' Abi Branning and Jay Mitchell set to rekindle romance
EastEnders is set to see Abi Branning shockingly rekindle her love with Jay Brown, if Abi actress Lorna Fitzgerald gets her way.
The pair have had some rocky relationships since they were originally an item - with Ben Mitchell ditching Abi and going after Paul Coker and Jay's latest flame Linzi Bragg being exposed as a 14-year-old schoolgirl.
Now it seems Abi and Jay will get back together in 2016, with Lorna saying Ben was a 'massive rebound'.
Talking about a possible reunion with Jay, Lorna - who has played Abi since 2006 - revealed to Express Online: “I think they could. I think character wise they could definitely get back together.
“I think specifically the character of Abi, she always sees her home in Jay and that’s why she got so caught up in Ben.
"It was massively a rebound, I mean she ran over her dog and then got with Ben a week later! Yeah, I think they’re soulmates.”
Speaking to to Mirror Online in December about her character's relationships she knew Abi would never be a Mitchell.
"I don't think she will ever properly be a Mitchell," she said, as she grinned about her character's future. "She just doesn't have it in her. She is a good person - which I think she tries to fight but at the end of the day. She's not, she's a Branning at the end of the day."

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Abi's fall from grace has seen the youngster go from one of EastEnders most endearing heroines to becoming one of Walford’s most manipulative villains.

Earlier this month, her “fake pregnancy” with Ben Mitchell was finally exposed and left the teenager with very little friends and few more enemies.

But this darker side of the woman scorned is just the beginning, according to actress Lorna Fitzgerald, who’s teased there’s a “craftier” Abi to come.

When asked if Aunt Babe - who conjured up Abi’s web of lies - would get her comeuppance, Lorna wasn’t so sure. Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, the 20-year-old explained: “Aunt Babe’s crafty - she’s been doing it a longer time. Abi’s Aunt Babe in the making. One day she’ll be that crafty.”

However, the pair’s poisonous chemistry is a friendship Lorna actually cherishes to play. Admitting that she would love Abi and Babe’s relationship to flourish, she added: “I personally would love it to. The twosome and the friendship between them is so intricate, there’s so many layers in that.

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Earlier this month, her “fake pregnancy” with Ben Mitchell was finally exposed and left the teenager with very little friends and few more enemies.

Abi getting all the blame for a toxic situation in which Ben was just as complicit (STD anyone?) leaves a bad taste in my mouth. She's now alone and friendless while he's happy in a new relationship after his thuggish and misogynistic display in the Vic. There's something very wrong with that picture in my opinion.

Abi’s Aunt Babe in the making.

I do like the sound of this...

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I want to see her reaction to Ben and Paul out as a couple and Jay's arrest

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Where is Abi?

Now Bobby has admitted to killing Lucy

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Where is Abi?

Now Bobby has admitted to killing Lucy

Yeah. I couldn't believe that out of the entire EE cast, they neglected to have her there at that scene where she would have found out the truth! I was so looking forward to seeing her face when she heard it, and realised she had sent her dad to jail for something he didn't do.

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There's good news in store for Lorna Fitzgerald's Abi Branning in Thursday's (July 14) episode of EastEnders.

In the new preview clip, Babe (Annette Badland) and Linda (Kellie Bright) are willing to put the past behind them as they ask Abi if she'd like to get her old job back in the Queen Vic.

"We'd really like it if you came back, wouldn't we Babe?" Linda tells the stunned teen.

"Put all that palaver in the past," Babe added.

Abi Branning gets some good news in EastEnders
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That "palaver", of course, relates back to Babe encouraging Abi to fake a pregnancy to save her relationship with Ben Mitchell (Harry Reid), only for Ben to eventually find out and humiliate Abi in front of all the patrons in the Vic in retaliation.

Since then, Abi's been a bit down on luck, as she's also been trying to deal with the fallout from sister Lauren's (Jacqueline Jossa) confession that she knew it was Bobby Beale who killed Lucy, and not their father Max.

Still, that all looks set to change as she accepts the job offer and agrees to a night out with her sister and her friends on Thursday - at least until Whitney Dean and Lee Carter's baby news threatens to expose Abi and Lee's one-night stand, that is.

EastEnders airs these scenes on Thursday, July 14 at 7.30pm on BBC One.

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There's good news in store for Lorna Fitzgerald's Abi Branning in Thursday's (July 14) episode of EastEnders.

In the new preview clip, Babe (Annette Badland) and Linda (Kellie Bright) are willing to put the past behind them as they ask Abi if she'd like to get her old job back in the Queen Vic.

"We'd really like it if you came back, wouldn't we Babe?" Linda tells the stunned teen.

"Put all that palaver in the past," Babe added.

Abi Branning gets some good news in EastEnders
© BBC
That "palaver", of course, relates back to Babe encouraging Abi to fake a pregnancy to save her relationship with Ben Mitchell (Harry Reid), only for Ben to eventually find out and humiliate Abi in front of all the patrons in the Vic in retaliation.

Since then, Abi's been a bit down on luck, as she's also been trying to deal with the fallout from sister Lauren's (Jacqueline Jossa) confession that she knew it was Bobby Beale who killed Lucy, and not their father Max.

Still, that all looks set to change as she accepts the job offer and agrees to a night out with her sister and her friends on Thursday - at least until Whitney Dean and Lee Carter's baby news threatens to expose Abi and Lee's one-night stand, that is.

EastEnders airs these scenes on Thursday, July 14 at 7.30pm on BBC One.

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Hmmm...no, sorry, still not enticing me back! :

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Why does she want a second job now she is not looking for a flat for her and Ben and does she wash her hands after working with animals coming in working with food in the pub