EastEnders’ legend Little Mo looks unrecognisable with blonde hair on ski holiday

SHE rose to fame playing the brunette Little Mo in EastEnders, but these days Kacey Ainsworth looks very different.

The actress, 53, now has bright blonde hair, which she showed off on a family skiing holiday.

Looking very happy, Kacey shared a series of snaps from the trip with her kids Elwood and Blossom, who she has with partner Darren Hales.

She told her followers: “We are here in France celebrating my children’s French heritage and for the World Cup Final. This red sky heralds the arrival of my beautiful daughter, Blossom.”

Kacey left the BBC One soap in 2006 and has since gone on to star in a number of theatre and TV roles.

She recently appeared to shut down the suggestion she could return to EastEnders saying:  "I've done so much since I've left.

"I'm a regular in an ITV series that's now...we're onto our seventh series of that.

"I've done so many things. Mrs Lovitt [in Sweeney Todd at the Everyman Theatre], I've just finished a play called Lava in London."

She added that she doesn't think there's "room" for a soaps return at present, but did not rule it out completely.

Her character, who become part of the show from 2000,  was at the centre of a harrowing domestic abuse storyline with husband Trevor (Alex Ferns).

The powerful role saw her win the 2002 National Television Award for Most Popular Actress, and she twice won the British Soap Award for Best Actress.

Mo famously attacked her husband with an iron - facing prison for attempted murder before being released without charge.

Trevor died in a fire in 2002, with Mo going on to briefly find love with Billy Mitchell.

Little Mo left the Square after her then husband Billy couldn't face looking after her son Freddie, after he learned he was her rapist's Graham's child.

Freddie has since arrived on the square, played by Bobby Brazier – desperate to know the truth about his father.