EastEnders icon Michelle Collins has delighted fans with the reveal of an epic throwback snap from her first week on the soap.
As scheming Cindy Beale Michelle kept viewers gripped for 10 years thanks to her manipulative ways and doomed romance to hapless businessman Ian Beale.
While Cindy went on to become one of the BBC soap's central characters, Michelle admitted it took a long time for her to feel proud of her work as there was a lot of 'snobbery' in the industry.
She said for a long time she even pretended her soap past didn't exist. Instagram Revealing how she'd finally accepted her start in acting, Michelle took to Instagram to share a snap from one of her first ever scenes on Albert Square back in 1988.