so it will be lovely to set foot back in Albert Square all these years later." Speaking to the Metro about his return to filming, Watt said: ‘We saw Letitia (Dean), Gill (Taylforth), June (Brown), Len (Fenton), some of the market stall holders are still the same people. You sort of pick up where you left off. You just start taking the piss again. We did have a laugh. ‘It was that kind of an introduction back into the story, although Letitia is fantastic. We just have a couple of little scenes. When John (Yorke, producer) explained it, I thought ‘that sounds really good’ and then the script came through and “yeah still sounds really good.”‘ Reception In 1988, actor Kevin Kennedy who played Curly Watts in soap opera Coronation Street, which was EastEnders''' biggest television rival, criticised the character of Lofty. Kennedy claimed that Lofty was a direct copy of his character Curly: "As far as i'm concerned, Lofty was a straight lift. It really annoyed me when I saw it. Lofty even had the same hairstyle and glasses as Curly, he had the same caring but dithering nature. It was a perfect copy." Curly first appeared in Coronation Street in 1983, just under two years before Lofty first appeared in EastEnders in 1985. Steve Tooze of the Daily Mirror'' branded the character a "daft, clueless geek who married 'Chelle Fowler, even though she was pregnant with Dirty Den's baby, and was duly dumped for his kind-heartedness." References External links EastEnders characters Fictional bartenders Fictional British Army personnel Television characters introduced in 1985 Male characters in television