{"id":75160,"date":"2025-05-05T00:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T00:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/75160\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T00:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T00:42:08","slug":"eastenders-lorraine-stanley-shows-off-incredible-figure-months-after-exiting-bbc-soap-celebrity-news-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/75160\/","title":{"rendered":"EastEnders’ Lorraine Stanley shows off incredible figure months after exiting BBC soap | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former EastEnders<\/a> actress Lorraine Stanley has shared an image showing off her jaw-dropping weight loss months after exiting the long-running BBC<\/a> soap. The Portsmouth icon, who portrayed Karen Taylor from 2017 to 2024, shared a stunning photograph of herself and her sibling celebrating a milestone moment.<\/p>\n

On Sunday (May 4), Lorraine, 48, took to Instagram<\/a> to wish her sister Karen Stanley a happy birthday. In the picture, shared with her 174,000 followers, the one-time Call the Midwife<\/a> star wore a floral waistcoat and white scooped neck vest, paired with a long khaki skirt.<\/p>\n

\u201cHappy Birthday to my beautiful Sister @karenstanley_74,\u201d the 48-year-old wrote. \u201cLove you millions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lorraine, who last year appeared in the Portsmouth Kings Theatre production of Dick Whittington, also showed off her figure in a sweet tribute post to snooker player, Frankie Jakeway, marking his successful London Marathon<\/a>. The video saw the mum-of-one capturing landmarks across the capital with her partner, Mark Perez, and their daughter Nancy.<\/p>\n

\u201cSmashed it Jakeway. I couldn\u2019t be more proud of you!!! I couldn\u2019t do it so big respect!,\u201d she typed. \u201cAnd for such an amazing cause Children Cancer UK. We had such a great day. Nancy loved watching you.”<\/p>\n

Lorraine, who has been working in the arts since 1999, made her film debut in Scottish film director Paul McGuigan\u2019s 2000 flick, Gangster No. 1. As well as appearing in a plethora of television films, she has fronted episodes of The Bill, Casualty<\/a> and Law & Order UK.<\/p>\n

In 2004, Lorraine became attached to EastEnders<\/a> for the first time, playing a young Mo Harris in the spin-off special, EastEnders<\/a>: Pat and Mo. In 2016, she made her main programme debut as Thelma Bragg.<\/p>\n

Thelma, who was a pub landlady, made eight separate appearances in Walford. A year after her character\u2019s departure, Lorraine returned to the soap opera full-time as Karen Taylor.<\/p>\n

For her role, she earned the 2018 British Soap Award for Best Newcomer and the 2019 Inside Soap Award for Funniest Female.<\/p>\n

A year later, she bagged the Inside Soap gong for Funniest Performance. In June 2023, it was announced that showrunners had \u201cwritten out\u201d Lorraine out of her role.<\/p>\n

A source told The Sun at the time: “It\u2019s always a tough call for bosses when deciding which characters will leave the soap, but it has to be done to keep storylines fresh and create new arcs for characters.<\/p>\n

“Lorraine had a great run on the soap and was a real scene stealer with her comic timing, and she has certainly made her mark with fans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her final scenes aired on December 8, 2023; however, she returned for two separate guest stints in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former EastEnders actress Lorraine Stanley has shared an image showing off her jaw-dropping weight loss months after exiting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[428,77,37103,37102,37101,37099,37100,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-75160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-eastenders","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-karen-eastenders","11":"tag-karen-eastenders-actressc","12":"tag-karen-taylor-eastenders","13":"tag-lorraine-stanley","14":"tag-lorraine-stanley-instagram","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114452453474486165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}