| Kelly Taylor | |||||
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| EastEnders character | |||||
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| Portrayed by | Brooke Kinsella | ||||
| Duration | 2001–2004 | ||||
| First appearance | Episode 2217 11 December 2001 | ||||
| Last appearance | Episode 2748/2749 18 June 2004 | ||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||
| Introduced by | John Yorke (2001) Louise Berridge (2002) | ||||
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Kelly Taylor is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Brooke Kinsella. The character was introduced by executive producer John Yorke, in 2001. She was only due to appear in eight episodes as part of a prostitution/homelessness storyline featuring Michelle Ryan's established character, Zoe Slater, who had run away from home in late 2001 and was living at the same brothel as Kelly. However, the viewer response to Kelly was positive, so she was reintroduced as a regular at the end of 2002. The character remained in the serial until 2004, when executive producer Louise Berridge decided that her storylines had come to a natural end.
In March 2008, Kinsella said in an interview with Woman magazine that she would love to return to EastEnders at some point, but the ball is in the court of the producers.