Lord Sugar joins EastEnders for Children In Need sketch

Lord Sugar today joined the cast of EastEnders to film a sketch for BBC Children in Need.

The Apprentice star took to Twitter to share pictures of himself with some of the soap’s cast including Shane Richie (Alfie Moon) and Perry Fenwick (Billy Mitchell).

While details of the filming have not been released, Sugar told his followers: “Off to do some filming now at the set of EastEnders for a Children in Need sequence – hope to have some fun. Will let you know.”

Meanwhile, Richie posted a picture of himself and the business tycoon on the social networking site and joked: “Guess who’s playing Alfie’s dad?”

Shona McGarty (Whitney Dean) is also expected to take part in this year’s Telethon.

Watch last year’s EastEnders contribution, a tribute to Queen, below: