'At 56, I'm not invisible, I'm just getting started'

Mica Paris has had huge success, from singing for royalty to mentoring Amy Winehouse, but she won't stop there

- WORDS: OLIVIA BUXTON PHOTOS: JACK ALEXANDER, DANNY CRAVEN, PA

Mica Paris has no plans to fade into the background — even if her last role in EastEnders technically left her behind bars.

"EastEnders was a while ago now," she laughs. "Would I ever go back? Well, I'd need to be freed from prison first. I'm not even getting good behaviour!"

The singer and actress appeared in EastEnders in 2020, joining the soap as Ellie Nixon, the manipulative grandmother of Raymond Dawson — the son of Denise Fox and Phil Mitchell.

Her character only appeared for a couple of months, from September to November 2020, before being written out when Ellie was arrested.