stapleton claimed that she has been asked to reprise the role at various times, and although she turned these offers down, in 2009 she stated the door has been left open for mandy to return. in june 2011, it was confirmed that stapleton was to reprise her role as mandy and she reappears from 29 august 2011. in her return storyline, mandy is found working as a lap dancer by ian beale (adam woodyatt), who offers her a place to stay back in walford, and they begin a relationship. however it is also revealed that mandy became pregnant with ricky butcher's (sid owen) child just before she left walford in 1994, and gave birth to a premature daughter, kira, who died shortly after birth. mandy and ian make plans to marry, but on their wedding day she refuses to marry him, revealing that she has been forcing herself to love him. ian begs her to stay but mandy leaves in may 2012.