EastEnders legends look unrecognisable in decades-old throwback snap

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EastEnders viewers have loved the rollercoaster romance between Patrick Trueman and Yolande Trueman that has been at the heart of many a Walford storyline over the last 20 years, and were thrilled to discover it is not the first time the two actors who play them have worked together.

Rudolph Walker CBE and Angela Wynter, who play Patrick and Yolande, were previously on stage together for a production of Meetings by Mustapha Matura, at the Hampstead Theatre in London back in 1982 and a photo of them together resurfaced this week.The play tells the story of Hugh and Jean, a middle class Trinidadian couple with busy lifestyles who are drifting apart as they both focus on their careers.Things change with the arrival of a new maid, Elsa, who fills the kitchen with all the food Hugh has been craving.

In the production, Rudolph played Hugh, Angela was Elsa and the role of Hugh’s wife was performed by Corinne Skinner Carter – who EastEnders fans will recognise as the actress who played Patrick’s ex-wife Audrey on the soap between 2000 and 2001.

Her character was killed off – she died of a brain haemorrhage – and it was her funeral that first brought Patrick to Albert Square.