Overview
- Coverage confirms Bissix’s brief comeback in early March episodes centered on Nigel Bates’s declining health.
- Reports describe Clare reconnecting with her estranged stepfather and facing strained family dynamics with Julie over his care.
- The family weighs next-step support, including professional care, as Nigel’s condition worsens.
- Bissix cites a personal link to early-onset dementia and past work with the Alzheimer’s Trust as informing her portrayal.
- This marks Bissix’s first appearance as Clare since 2008, bringing a legacy character back into a contemporary social-issue plot.