fans may be set to see a familiar face return to the cobbles – and it is sure to rock the Dobbs household. Alina Pop (played by Ruxandra Porojnicu) first arrived on the cobbles back in 2019 and had two stints on the long-running show. The brunette beauty, hailing from Romania, was part of a storyline involving a human trafficking ring which gripped viewers across the country.
Loyal fans will remember how Seb Franklin (Harry Visinoni) discovered she had been shipped over to the UK to work at a nail salon. At the time, her ‘boss’ confiscating her passport to prevent her from returning home. When she finally escaped his from her employer’s cruel grasp, she soon fled the country to reunite with her family.
But she didn’t leave the soap for long, with the 30-year-old actor returning to the soap back in February 2020. Determined to make her home, it wasn’t long before she drove a wedge between Tyrone Dobbs (Alan Halsall) and his long-term partner Fiz (Jennie Mcalpine). Sparks immediately flew between the two, with Tyrone making the difficult decision to call time on his nine-year relationship with Fiz.
The couple then moved into the salon flat together, but the mechanic’s pyromaniac daughter Hope (Isabella Flanagan) wasn’t best pleased with her dad’s new girlfriend. Hellbent on splitting the pair up, she lit a fire in the flat which inevitably caused Alina to miscarry her baby. Thankfully, a few weeks later, the TV favourite announced she was expecting again.
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