EastEnders star Letitia Dean, who plays Sharon Mitchell, proudly showcased her new slender figure as she was pictured filming Christmas Day scenes after shedding another two stone
EastEnders actress Letitia Dean proudly showcased her impressive weight loss as she was pictured filming Christmas Day scenes earlier this week. The soap star, 56, who has starred as Sharon Mitchell since the soap’s inception in 1985, showed off her incredible transformation as she shot scenes for an upcoming on-screen wedding that will air later this year.
Dressed in a fitted black dress, which showed off her figure after she shed an additional two stone, Sharon Watts actress Letitia looked stunning as she debuted her new slender figure. She completed her look with a pair of black stiletto heels and a matching handbag. While her total weight loss is undisclosed, in January the actress said she’d gone from 10st 4lbs to 8st 3lbs.
TV legend Letitia dropped four dress sizes in just a few months and has been looking noticeably slimmer on the show, where she plays Sharon Watts, as she continues to display the results of her diet and fitness overhaul.
After noticing her slim figure, fans recently flooded Twitter to comment on her new look as they begged her to share the secrets to her weight loss. One of the show’s many viewers wrote on Twitter: “I’m so intrigued, I need Sharon’s (EastEnders) weight loss secret. She looks amazing!”
Another tweeted: “Need to go on the Letitia Dean diet. She looks amazing,” whilst a third said: “Letitia Dean has lost so much weight she looks amazing. Massive well done to her.”
She was filming upcoming scenes for EastEnders starring much of the BBC One soap’s cast including Strictly Come Dancing actor Jamie Borthwick They will see Queen Vic landlady Elaine Peacock preparing to marry her fiancé George Knight.
The star has previously spoken about cruel comments that trolls have made about her weight over the years. In 2020, whilst appearing on EastEnders’ spin-off show Secrets from the Square, Letitia said: “I had quite a lot of horrible things said about me: ‘She’s too fat, the other actors complain they can’t fit on the same set with her.'”
The actress has been eating much healthier foods and exercising, replacing junk food with better options such as “gilled skinless chicken” and “lots of greens”.
“It was incredible,” she told Closer Magazine in a recent interview. “I found I had so much more energy than I was eating junk food.”
The actress said she has tried “faddy regimes”, including a “disgusting” eggs-only diet, which she admitted did make her lose weight, however, she quickly yo-yo’d back.
She continued: “I just woke up one morning, and I’d had enough. For years and years – as long as I can remember – my weight had yo-yoed up and down. I’d go on fad diets like Atkins or I’d only eat eggs.”
These days, she keeps to a calorie-controlled diet and enjoys keeping fit with exercises such as running and boxercise
During her six year break from EastEnders from 2006 to 2012, Letitia enlisted the help of the personal trainer used by her co-starsCharlie BrooksandNatalie Cassidy, and in 2008, she released a fitness DVD, named Letitia Dean’s Lean Routine.
Speaking to the Daily Record in 2009, Letitia said: “I’d go on fad diets like Atkins or I’d only eat eggs. The effect was great, even if my breath did smell foul. I’d lose a stone in a couple of weeks, but gradually I’d slip back into my old ways and put it all on again.”
The star revealed she has “so much more energy” since removing the “faddy diets” from her life, and has been oozing a newfound confidence in herself ever since.
The star, who has also had a pop career, played Sharon until 1995, before later reprising the role from 2001 to 2006, before another hiatus until her return in 2012. Sharon is one of the best-loved characters on the soap, with plenty of dramatic storylines over the years.
