Nigel Bates Eastenders 2025 Season. Paul bradley is set to stage a huge return to eastenders next year as 90s favourite nigel bates. Nigel bates has returned to the bbc soap eastenders for the first time in 26 years in a special christmas eve episode.
Eastenders will air a festive reunion for nigel bates (paul bradley) and his old pal phil mitchell (steve mcfadden), and executive producer chris clenshaw has teased there is. One of those she served was the classic character nigel bates, played by paul bradley, now looking somewhat dishevelled and saddened.