Lorcia Cooper Makes a Return to ‘Scandal!’, Star’s Character Erin Back to Fight for Her Child: “Still as Good”

Lorcia Cooper Makes a Return to ‘Scandal!’, Star’s Character Erin Back to Fight for Her Child: “Still as Good”

  • Lorcia Cooper Kumalo has made her return to Scandal! to continue playing the role of Erin after she left the show a couple of years ago
  • Lorcia's character, Erin, is back in Johannesburg to fight for the child she adopted from Dintle when she was still a schoolgirl
  • Motshabi came back to Johannesburg to look for her biological mother, Dintle, and Erin is now in town to look for the child she raised as her own

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Lorcia Cooper Kumalo has made her return to Scandal!. The veteran actor appeared in the telenovela on Monday night, 30 May. She left the show a couple of years back.

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Lorcia Cooper is back to continue playing the role of Erin in 'Scandal'. Image: @lorcia1cooper
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The star is back on the soapie to continue playing the role of Erin. Erin is in Johannesburg to look for her daughter, Motshabi. Mo recently came back to Jozi to look for biological mom, Dintle.

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Dintle gave birth to Mo when she was still at high school and gave her up for adoption to Erin and her hubby, Tino. The fuming Erin went straight to Dintle's apartment to look for Mo in the lit episode.

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TshisaLIVE reports that the soapie shared that Erin and Tino adopted the child on the understanding that Dintle would not interfere even in the future.

The viewers of Scandal! took to Twitter to share their views on Lorcia Cooper's first scene in the show after having been gone for so many years.

@itu_nadia wrote:

"Erin is still as good as we remember her."

@1stMonika commented:

"And then Erin comes back with a mushroom hairstyle."

@sindobaby said:

"It was in this very apartment Dintle is in when she said goodbye to Motshabi."

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@Deejaye1978 wrote:

"It's been almost a month now that Mo is in Joburg and Erin never got word from Magalies boarding school that her child is not present."

@sisamazibuko1 added:

"It's good to see her pity with noTino?? but how come she doesn't know her daughter is not at school abamtshelanga yini ukuthi ingane ibalekile."

Scandal! trends as big news finally come out

In other entertainment news, Briefly News reported that Dintle is definitely Mo's mom. The big news finally came out in the latest episode of Scandal! and the viewers of the show are here for it.

Dintle fell pregnant when she was a teenager some years back and gave Mo up for adoption to couple, Erin and Tino Martins. The viewers of the telenovela took to Twitter to react to the news.

The 14-year-old Mo recently rocked up in town to find her mom. The long-lost daughter confronted Dintle, a role played by Mapaseka Koetle, and told her that she's her mother in the latest episode of the show.

Source: Briefly News

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Mxolisi Mngadi (Editor) Mxolisi Mngadi is an entertainment reporter. He graduated in 2002 from Damelin with a Diploma in Journalism, majoring in African and International Studies, Journalism and Electronic Media. He then started his journalism career at the Daily Sun newspaper, went on to The Citizen, and worked as a senior reporter at News24. He has been a writer for more than 15 years.