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Lindsey Coulson: EastEnders' Carol Jackson star warned to 'prepare for backlash' over role
EastEnders star, Lindsey Coulson, 60, who is best known for playing the role of Carol Jackson until 2015, has revealed how BBC bosses told her to "prepare for backlash" before being in the first mixed-race couple on EastEnders with Howard Antony, who played her on-screen husband, Alan Jackson.The BBC favourite told OK! Magazine how it was a "breakthrough" moment for the soap.During an interview, Lindsey, who now stars alongside Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters in Bulletproof, explained how she is proud to be on a show with "two black men as the leads".The actress then went on to say how she is also proud to have been cast in the first mixed-race couple in EastEnders.Lindsey divulged: "I am also proud to have been part of the first mixed race
