 Additionally, in June 2013, upon the announcement that Bobby's stepsister, Cindy Williams, would return to the programme, new actress Mimi Keene said "with Peter, Lucy Beale (Hetti Bywater), Bobby and Cindy to contend with, it'll be a lively household".Producers decided to recast the character again in 2014 from Stroud to child actor Eliot Carrington.Carrington was chosen to play Bobby because producers wanted an actor with "emotional depth".