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" Waterloo Road welcomes back Bolton Smilie tomorrow evening (February 7) as he returns to the show for a dramatic guest appearance. Bolton turns up at the school&amp;#039;s new Scottish home in his army uniform as he wants to see Tom Clarkson, and his arrival causes quite a stir among staff and pupils alike. Hailed as a great role model by Nikki and Lorraine, Bolton is roped into giving a speech to the sixth form students. However, it soon becomes clear that all is not well with Bolton - and there are tense scenes on the way as he completely snaps\u2026 Digital Spy recently chatted to Tachia Newall, who plays Bolton, to hear more about his character&amp;#039;s comeback. How did it feel to return to Waterloo Road after quite a while away from the show? &amp;quot;It was quite nice! It was good to think that people remembered the character and the work that I&amp;#039;d done, so it was great to get the offer to come back.&amp;quot; Was it a surprise to you when you received the call? &amp;quot;I was very surprised, actually. With me being in a completely different angle in life and following different things now, I just didn&amp;#039;t expect it. &amp;quot;I had a little think about whether to say yes, because I had to cancel a few little things that I had to do in Manchester. But once that was sorted, I went up to film in Scotland. I&amp;#039;d been in Scotland the year before when I was filming Waterloo Road Reunited and had a really good time then, so it was nice to be back there. I started filming in August 2012 and I was there for about a month.&amp;quot; Did you have a chance to get to know the newer cast members? &amp;quot;Not that much, but I did get a chance to chill with a few of them. We went out for a few drinks and whatnot. There wasn&amp;#039;t really enough time to get to know them all properly, especially as we were all staying in different areas, but they&amp;#039;re all a lovely bunch.&amp;quot; Was Waterloo Road something that you&amp;#039;d looked back fondly on? &amp;quot;Yeah, I loved it - it was brilliant. That&amp;#039;s where I got my training, really. I didn&amp;#039;t go to a drama school, so I got my training on the job and I learned to do everything on the Waterloo Road set.&amp;quot;  Has Bolton changed much since we last saw him? &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s completely different. You&amp;#039;ll see that he&amp;#039;s a lot more serious, and he&amp;#039;s only really interested in saying the things that are needed in a conversation. Bolton won&amp;#039;t say any of the flowery stuff that you don&amp;#039;t really need, so all of his charisma seems to have just disappeared.&amp;quot; Was it a challenge to step back into Bolton&amp;#039;s shoes? &amp;quot;It was a bit of a challenge, because there were so many changes compared to the way that Bolton was before. Plus, I&amp;#039;ve changed loads myself in real life.  &amp;quot;The way that I used to play Bolton was as an extension of myself, but because he&amp;#039;s changed loads and I&amp;#039;ve changed loads too, we&amp;#039;re both at different angles in life. It was pretty difficult and I&amp;#039;m not sure the character&amp;#039;s going to come across the same as he used to!&amp;quot; What brings Bolton back to Waterloo Road? &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s the whole idea of looking for advice and going back to old mentors like Tom, who he trusted previously. He has some things that he needs to talk about. &amp;quot;Fortunately, everyone seems pleased to see Bolton. They&amp;#039;re all happy that he&amp;#039;s back, apart from maybe Bolton himself!&amp;quot; Is Grantly pleased to see him? &amp;quot;Well at first they feel like old friends and they&amp;#039;re pleased to see each other again, but it all turns sour pretty quickly between those two. They&amp;#039;re back to their usual tricks of antagonising each other!&amp;quot; Is Bolton proud when Lorraine suggests that he should make a speech to the students? &amp;quot;Not at all! He&amp;#039;s not interested in that in the slightest, and he doesn&amp;#039;t want to do it. He&amp;#039;s not at the school for that, so it comes as a bit of a shock and there&amp;#039;s a lot of pressure. That pressure gets on top of him and things start coming back - memories of stuff that he&amp;#039;d rather forget\u2026&amp;quot; What&amp;#039;s gone wrong for Bolton? &amp;quot;Well, he was in the army and that&amp;#039;s about as much as I can say! He joined the army and it certainly seems that something has gone wrong, but you&amp;#039;ll have to tune in to see what.&amp;quot;  What happens next? Pictures from the episode seem to show him in a dramatic showdown with Grantly\u2026 &amp;quot;Well, there&amp;#039;s a lot of running around, first of all. Bolton&amp;#039;s army bag goes missing, so there&amp;#039;s a lot of running around trying to find that. Emotions are running high and there&amp;#039;s a lot of confusion that comes up. As for him and Grantly, let&amp;#039;s just say there&amp;#039;s a lot of tense scenes between them in a classroom that&amp;#039;s locked\u2026&amp;quot; Do you think the fans will be pleased to see Bolton again? &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s going to be half and half. Half of them are going to be real happy that Bolton&amp;#039;s back, but a lot of them might be angry that he&amp;#039;s not the same! I don&amp;#039;t know how they&amp;#039;re going to take it.&amp;quot; Would you return to Waterloo Road again? &amp;quot;Yeah, there&amp;#039;s always room for that. I don&amp;#039;t know how they would work it back in, but you never know!&amp;quot; We know that you&amp;#039;re into music as well as acting. How are things going on the music front? &amp;quot;The music&amp;#039;s going quite nicely, actually. I&amp;#039;m starting to get quite a bit of recognition from producers in Manchester, so there&amp;#039;s quite a few people who I&amp;#039;m hoping to work with. &amp;quot;I released an EP last year and I&amp;#039;ve just released another one - they&amp;#039;re both available for free download from my Twitter page. I want to work with more producers, release some singles and get some videos done.&amp;quot; How do you describe your sound? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s all experimental stuff! There&amp;#039;s a lot of hip-hop and rap, but then it blends into ballads and there&amp;#039;s a lot of electronics. It&amp;#039;s kind of a new sound, I think. There&amp;#039;s a lot of experimentation. Music is my first love - I&amp;#039;ve always been a musician.&amp;quot; Are you concentrating more on music than acting now? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d like my music to kick off, but at the same time, I love to be doing other things. I don&amp;#039;t like to do just one thing, because I think that&amp;#039;s boring. I&amp;#039;d like to mix the two and have a balance.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Read our spoiler for the next &amp;#039;Waterloo Road&amp;#039; episode &amp;gt; Read more &amp;#039;Waterloo Road&amp;#039; spoilers and news Waterloo Road airs on Thursdays at 8pm on BBC One. New! Digital Spy Soap Scoop video - watch Amie Parker-Williams reveal the biggest storylines on the way in Coronation Street, EastEnders, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks next week.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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