Pam St Clement's bisexual awakening as she makes Rivals cameo

Pam St Clement returned to screens with a short cameo in a Disney+ show. She is best known for playing Pat Evans in EastEnders across more than 2,300 episodes. Her appearance involved a memorable moment in a hotel where Declan O’Hara is caught after passion with his wife. The cameo came together because the show’s leadership had previously worked with St Clement on EastEnders and stayed in contact. In her 2015 memoir, she described falling for a woman while married during a 1975 Royal Shakespeare Company tour in Australia, including feelings of discovery and freedom. She later divorced in 1976 and had another relationship with a woman, describing it as happy and stable.

"For this little cameo park, we needed an actress. So we said, 'What about Pam?'" And the rest is history! Speaking of history, the actress's return to the small screen got us thinking about her own. In her 2015 memoir, The End of an Earring, St Clement revealed that she'd fallen for a woman while she was married to her husband during a 1975 tour with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Australia."

""The distance allowed me an objective view of my marriage - especially after we landed in Sydney. It was a pretty gay city even then, a mecca of fun and outrageous alternativeness. "And I fell, not for some bush-whacking hunk, but for a woman. It was a time of discovery and abandon, of excitement and freedom. I wanted to woo and be wooed and felt no guilt.""

""That month in Sydney went all too quickly and we were soon saying our farewells at the airport with promises of reunions back in the UK. I nearly missed the plane, I was so bereft at leaving." 'It was a new experience, exciting and different in every way' She went on to divorce husband Andrew Gordon in 1976, and St Clement had another relationship with a woman."

"The soap star said: "I fell for an attractive woman who was intelligent, witty and fun to be with. Diana and I settled into a happy and stable ­relationship. "Looking back, I wonder if I should have stayed on my own. I want to love and be loved b"

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