Celebrity Big Brother star Patsy Palmer’s real name revealed – and she still goes by it when she’s not in the UK

CELEBRITY Big Brother star Patsy Palmer's “real name” has been revealed – and she uses it when she's not on home turf.

The actress, who plays Bianca Jackson on the soap, adopts her married name when she's

, 51, has built a serene life by the beach, after re-locating with her family back in 2014.

Yet while rubbing shoulders Stateside with the likes of supermodel, she goes under her married name Julie Merkell.

The TV star's birth name is in fact Julie Anne Harris, but she is widely known by EastEnders fans as Patsy.

The soap star, who has been to enter thehouse, will enter the ITV compound tonight.

She'll join the likes of,andas the show returns tonight.

Yet it is unclear what name she will use in the brand-new Celebrity Big Brother house.

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Previously, Patsy – who returned to EastEnders last year for the soap's explosive 40th anniversary and – shocked viewers with her real name.

She of her American neighbours and said: “No, they don’t know me.

“I have another name, my name is Julie really.

“So I thought I’m going to get back to calling myself my real name.

“But I actually get so confused myself that sometimes I’ll say Patsy, sometimes I say Julie and it’s like I confuse myself.

“So now in Malibu they call me Patsy Julie.”;

Former This Morning anchor Phillip Schofield then said: “I didn’t know your name wasn’t Patsy. Julie Anne Harris?”

Patsy then clarified: “That was my name, my name is Julie Merkell, my married name.”

Meanwhile, the flame-haired star is a name in the frame for tonight's CBB.

A spokesperson forCelebritypreviously told us: “Any names suggested forare purely speculation.”

andwill be back to host the celebrity series tonight.

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And theCelebrity Big Brother: Live Streamwill also return to screens, airing seven nights a week onITVXand STV Player.