EastEnders star proves she manifested BBC role with eerie post from a decade ago
Clair Norris, who plays Bernie Taylor on EastEnders, has proved that she manifested her place on the long-running BBC One soap
EastEnders actress Clair Norris have revealed that she manifested her role on the iconic BBC One soap.
Clair has been playing much-loved character Bernie Taylor for over seven years after she joined the soap back in 2017. long before landing the highly sought-after spot on Albert Square, Clair had been manifesting and visualising herself on the set of the long-running BBC soap.
And three years before she was offered her role as Bernie, actress Clair posted to social media hoping that she would one day be apart of the cast. Taking to Instagram over the weekend, Clair re-shared her throwback post from 2014 and took a look back at how far she has come in her acting career.
Taking to her Instagram, Clair shared: “Who’d have thought that 3 years later I’d be cast as Bernadette Taylor. Still saying the same thing 10 years on. Everyone has been incredible last couple of weeks.” The post from over ten years ago read: “I’d love to be apart of the storyline in EastEnders right now.”
The actress has been on the BBC One soap since 2017 (
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Clair manifested her role as Bernie Taylor (
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It comes after Clair revealed that childhood bullies who taunted her about her weight have driven her on to acting success. The 26-year-old who plays Bernadette in the BBC One soap opened up in a Panorama documentary about obesity back in 2022. Clair revealed she was the target of cruel taunts at primary school but it happened so often she didn’t realise it was bullying.
She said in the documentary: “It all started for me in the playground with name-calling which now, as I have got older, I have come to realise is bullying. I just saw it as name-calling because it would happen one day and then not the next. They would be my friend then not be my friend. When it happens every day you don’t associate it with a specific word or person.
“It wasn’t for a long long time that I realised that was actual bullying and not OK and it was another pupil who told the teacher in the end what was going on. I think it prepared me for the industry that I am in and I feel I am bit more thick-skinned in that sense. It has driven me to success,” she added.
Explaining her own battle with weight, Clair said: “My weight has always fluctuated. I’ve lost weight I’ve gained weight. Me and my mum, we talk about it. I’ve done slimming classes but people work differently and my story isn’t for everybody. In the industry I’m in, there’s always going to be comments made about anything.
“It could be about my acting, it could be about my size, it could be about my make-up or what clothes I wear. You have to deal with it but even if you are slimmer you are still going to have people making comments,” she added.
