EastEnders legend Pam St Clement sent fans wild when she was spotted shopping in Oxford this week.
The actress, 82, who starred as The Queen Vic’s iconic barmaid Pat Butcher until 2012, was wearing quirky silver sunglᴀsses while loading up her car boot after a shopping trip.
A TikTok user filmed the moment from their car, which was parked opposite Pam’s. They shared it with their followers and captioned it: ‘Queen Pat.’
Underneath the clip, one fan wrote: ‘She’s an icon’; ‘The living legend’;
‘The queen isn’t aging!!!’
Last year, Pam channelled her famous character Pat Butcher over the weekend when she stopped for a pint in Oxfordshire.
EastEnders legend Pam St Clement sent fans wild when she was spotted shopping in Oxford this week
The actress, 82, starred as The Queen Vic’s iconic barmaid until 2012
She surprised fans when got behind the bar at McCafferty’s at the White Hart in Bicester.
Pam joined a member of staff at the Irish pub for a pH๏τo, flashing a smile as she poured a pint.
She wrapped up warm in a white padded coat with a leopard print shirt layered underneath for her outing.
Sharing the pH๏τo to Facebook over the weekend, a member of staff from the pub wrote: ‘Pat Butcher from Eastender’s famous TV programme popped into McCafferty’s to say hello.’
After 26 years in Walford, Pat left the square on New Year’s Day 2012.
Pam revealed she had decided to kill off her character and felt that Albert Square was no longer realistic enough.
In a frank interview at the time she warned EastEnders producers that the popular soap was just too violent.
Pam said: ‘I’m not too sure that one little area of London has quite so much violence and adultery as ours does.’
She was wearing quirky silver sunglᴀsses while loading up her car boot after a shopping trip
Underneath the clip, one fan wrote: ‘She’s an icon’; ‘The living legend’
Last year, Pam channelled her famous character Pat Butcher over the weekend when she stopped for a pint in Oxfordshire
Pam, who first appeared in Albert Square in 1986, filmed her final scenes in 2011 when her character, after being diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer, returned home to die
She continued: ‘Maybe in the search to be over more interesting we are always pinning stories on things that are ever more ‘out there’, rather than remembering that good stories are about what happens in people’s hearts and in their relationships.’
Pam, who first appeared in Albert Square in 1986, repeatedly told off producers for dismissing good story lines and not developing characters enough.
Her character was married four times, had worked as a prosтιтute and served time in prison, but her final scene in the soap was her most dramatic.
After being diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer, Pat returned to her home to die surrounded by her family.
Her exit also marked the end of an era as she was the last Walford matriarch remaining.