Holby City star Guy Henry has assured viewers that his character Henrik Hanssen will be back to stay.
Henrik took a break from the hospital last summer to spend more time with his grandson Oskar, but the character is set to return to screens for a new storyline next week.
Chatting to Inside Soap about his return to Holby, Henry confirmed that he has signed up for a significant stay rather than a simple guest stint.
"It's lovely when people stop me and say, 'You are coming back to sort them all out, aren't you?'" he said. "And yes, on this occasion, I am back and signing up for another stretch.
"I love the part – the character of Hanssen and the fact that people enjoy watching himself."
Still, after ten years in Holby City, the actor enjoyed having some time away from the grind of filming the BBC One medical drama.
"It was lovely," he recalled. "The story with Hanssen's grandson meant that he could prance off to Sweden to see his family, while I went away to do something different for a little while.
"Our executive producer Simon Harper has always graciously said, 'If you find a good play that you'd like to do, we can make schedules work', and he has stayed true to his word. I'm so grateful for that."
Henry admitted that returning to playing Hanssen presents new challenges this time around, since he's now a surgeon rather than chief officer.
"The surgery is never my favourite thing to do," he admitted. "One of our best directors said to me, 'What are you doing? You look like you're cutting up roast lamb!'
"I'm very bad at the suturing, and the show has been known to get a real surgeon's hands to do that bit, with some clever use of camera trickery.
"There is always a bleed, have you noticed? You can't do an operation on Holby without someone going, 'There's a bleed!' – and off we go with the sucky machine.
"I quite like doing the sucking out of the blood, if you pardon the expression. Perhaps I should have been a vampire? Maybe they'll make me a vampire!"
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