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EASTENDERS' star Steve McFadden cuddles his newborn daughter and beams: "She's my little sweetheart."

The Albert Square hardman fought back tears as he showed off six-week-old Mollie and confirmed for the first time that he IS her dad.

Steve, who plays Walford's Phil Mitchell, has healed his rift with ex-partner Angie Bostock, 27, and is besotted with their second daughter - a sister to Teona, six.

As he took her for a day out in the sun Steve, 44, said: "Mollie is absolutely beautiful - a real sweetie. I can't stop cuddling her.

"When Teona was born I was so emotional and overwhelmed that I thought I'd never experience anything like it again.



"But when I saw Mollie it all came rushing back and I just filled up...I felt such love for her.

"She is gorgeous...so tiny and vulnerable, but you can already see she's got her own personality. I just hope she doesn't have my looks!

"When they are that small you feel very protective and just want to watch them all the time - even when they are asleep.

"I have always loved kids and everyone loves new-born babies, don't they?"

Steve is taking a year's break from the hit BBC1 soap. And at the moment the only thing on his mind is getting to know his beautiful baby girl - and watching her bond with her big sister.

As he lifted Mollie high in the air Steve said: "The only problem is Angie or me getting a look-in when Teona is around!

"She is absolutely besotted with Mollie and wants to do everything for her. Watching Teona's face when she first saw her was one of the best moments of my life.

"She calls her 'My Mollie' and keeps giving her big wet kisses.

"Angie is a great mum and Mollie is a calm, smiley baby."

Steve proved he's a hands-on dad as he gave Mollie her bottle and changed her.

He said: "I haven't lost my touch when it comes to changing nappies and feeding her - and I'm pretty good at bringing up wind too!

"Now if I only can get Mollie to do it - ha ha!

"She's perfect - and I will always be there for her."

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EastEnders' hits "lowest ever ratings

EastEnders hit what could possibly be its lowest audience ever last night (Tuesday), early ratings figures indicate.

According to the data, the 7.30pm edition of the soap averaged just 6.4 million viewers and a 34% share of the audience, around half than would normally be expected. Ratings were down across the board last night due to the unusually hot weather but crucially, EastEnders was down by 20 percentage points from its regular 55% audience share. It also lost out to an enlongated episode of Emmerdale on ITV1, which averaged 7.6 million viewers between 7pm and 8pm.

A BBC spokeswoman said that the corporation wasn't "particularly worried" about the figures: "In terms of share, it was very healthy with 34%, which is a third of TV viewers. Our audience was split with Emmerdale. The weather was also very nice and if you look at the other programmes all shares were down because it was a sunny evening. We know our viewers know that there's another chance to catch up with the omnibus at the weekend so we're not particularly worried."

Today's news is just the latest in a line of disappointments for the soap. Earlier this year it missed nomination at the prestigious BAFTA award ceremony for the first time ever, and in more recent weeks it has been rocked by allegations about top star Leslie Grantham. There has also been much criticism of the shift towards more sensational storylines, including rape, gangland shootings, robbery, murder and extortion.

Many of the cast have also left or been sacked in the past year: Charlie Brooks (Janine Evans), Shaun Williamson (Barry Evans), Todd Carty (Mark Fowler), Lucy Benjamin (Lisa Fowler), Elaine Lordan (Lynne Hobbs), Hannah Waterman (Laura Beale), Sid Owen (Ricky Butcher), Lucy Speed (Natalie Evans) and Tony Caunter (Roy Evans). Other favourites including Barbara Windsor (Peggy Mitchell), Steve McFadden (Phil Mitchell) and Kacey Ainsworth (Little Mo) are on extended absence.

By contrast, ITV rival Coronation Street has gone from strength to strength, with a series of character-based storylines drawing in huge audiences over the past year.

The continued misfortune of EastEnders puts further pressure on exec producer Louise Berridge, who has already received calls to quit the post.

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Op zaterdag 22 mei 2004 20:06 schreef Suko het volgende:
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Dus Lynne (Elaine Lordan) zuipt terwijl ze echt zwanger is??? Vind ik een vorm van kindermishandeling, dat de BeeB geen maatregelen neemt of dat er geen protesten zijn, vreemd.

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Elaine: Stranger hit me as I tidied broken glass



PREGNANT EastEnders star Elaine Lordan was beaten up in a drunken pub brawl.

Elaine, 37 — axed from the soap over her boozing — picked fights with two men then scrapped with a woman while celebrating Arsenal’s Premiership triumph in London on Sunday.

Police were called after the Gunners fan — Slater sister Lynne Hobbs on TV — wound up with a cut lip.

But last night Elaine insisted she was the victim of an unprovoked attack.

She said: “This girl was boasting, ‘I’ve beaten up Lynne Slater off the telly’.”

Three-months-pregnant Elaine pointed to a cut lip as she described the fight with a woman.

She said: “There were children crawling around among broken glass. I simply picked it up and this girl did this to me.

“I’d never met her in my life. She slapped me across the head. She had a ring on, which cut my lip. She knocked me to the ground.

“She was boasting, saying, ‘I’ve beaten up Lynne Slater off the telly’.”

Trouble flared as Elaine watched Sunday’s victory parade by unbeaten Premiership champions Arsenal.

Gunners fan Elaine, who plays married Slater sister Lynne Hobbs, started drinking at 11.30am with boyfriend Pete Manuel near her home in Islington, North London.

She is said to have become abusive as she swigged pints of lager at the Highbury Barn pub, a haunt of Arsenal fans.

A secretary who saw the amazing scenes said: “She was looking for trouble from the moment she arrived and was trying to pick fights.

“First she punched a man in the chest. Then she picked a fight with a guy filming the procession and swore at him.

“The more she drank the more abusive she became. Her boyfriend was trying to calm her down.

“But then she snatched an Arsenal flag off a little boy and started parading up and down with it.

“The boy was upset and his mother tried to grab it back.

"A scuffle broke out and Lordan threw a punch. But the other woman had the measure of her and they ended up rolling around on the floor.

“She had a cut 1½ins long on her lip and a bruised eye. She was definitely to blame.”

Police confirmed they were called to the pub and a 37-year-old woman made an allegation of assault. No one was charged.

TV bosses failed to renew Elaine’s contract after a string of drink-related incidents and she leaves EastEnders in the summer.

She was banned for drink driving last year.

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ELAINE Lordan’s pub brawl erupted after the pregnant EastEnders actress drunkenly spilled booze over a baby, it was claimed yesterday.

Dad Derek Dillon, whose girlfriend ended up grappling with the star, raged: “Elaine was so drunk she fell over and crashed into the pram.

“There was beer and bottles all over my screaming baby.”

The Sun told yesterday how three-months-pregnant Elaine, 37, was left with a cut lip after the fight.

Police were called to the Highbury Barn pub in North London, where drinkers had packed benches outside to make the most of the sunshine.



Elaine — who plays married Slater sister Lynne Hobbs on TV — accused Mr Dillon’s girlfriend of assault.

But dad-of-five Mr Dillon, 39, insisted it was the actress who lashed out first.

Arsenal supporter Elaine had got sloshed as she and boyfriend Pete Manuel celebrated the Premiership champions’ victory parade on Sunday.

The Highbury Barn — near Elaine’s Islington home — is a fans’ haunt.

Fellow drinkers told how Elaine spent hours guzzling vodka alcopops and lager — then ended up crawling under benches.

She emerged with a collection of bottles and cans — and is said to have stumbled as she tried to put them in a bin.

Builder Mr Dillon, who refused to reveal his girlfriend’s name, said: “They went flying over my baby’s pram. Drink went all over my five-month-old girl.

“I said, ‘What are you doing?’ She said, ‘I’m clearing up your f****** mess.’ I’d heard she was leaving EastEnders so I asked if this was her new job. She just screamed, ‘F*** off home’.”

Mr Dillon, whose four other young daughters were with him, said he calmed her — but she twice came back to confront the family with a torrent of abuse.

The dad said: “She lashed out with her arm towards my girlfriend’s face. About 100 people were watching. They pointed at Lordan, shouting, “Off, off, off” — like she was going to be sent off in a football match.”

Arsenal fan Anthony Preddie, 32, said Elaine repeatedly tried to grab a camcorder he had used to film celebrations.

He saw the actress brawling with a woman and yelling: “Do you know who the f*** I am?”

Mr Preddie added: “Her behaviour was disgusting.”

A barman said of the actress, who has been axed from EastEnders over her boozing: “She was plastered.” Police are investigating Elaine’s assault complaint.

Last night the star’s spokesman refused to comment.

But an EastEnders source said: “Elaine’s actions have just left everyone gobsmacked. We have told her agent she needs to go into rehab.”

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Elaine driven to drink



PREGNANT EastEnders star Elaine Lordan cheers herself up yesterday over reports of her drunkenness — by jumping in the car and driving to her local off licence.



But Lordan, 37, had clearly taken to heart The Sun’s advice about cutting back on the booze because she left the shop in Highbury, North London, empty-handed.

We told on Tuesday how Lordan — who plays married Slater sister Lynne Hobbs in the soap — got a cut lip after brawling drunkenly with another woman at a party to celebrate Arsenal’s Premiership triumph.

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TELLY heart-throb NIGEL HARMAN has knocked back a £2million recording contract.

The EastEnders star, who plays Dennis Rickman, got the offer from Sony.

Nigel, a trained singer, politely turned it down saying he doesn’t want to become “WILL YOUNG for grannies”.

Bosses at the recording giant felt Nigel’s popularity in EastEnders would score him instant chart success with a generation of fans hooked on the soap.

Nigel has appeared in a number of stage musicals.

He impressed London audiences in the shows Mamma Mia and Privates On Parade.

But the chance to sing full time was not enough to lure him away from Walford — yet.

Nigel told me: “I was offered a deal by Sony for a single and an album but I turned it down.

“I said, ‘It’s very kind of you, but no thanks.’

“I think they would have tried to turn me into Will Young for grannies. But I admit there’s a part of me that would love to front a band. Standing in front of guitars and drums would be a buzz.”

Sony chiefs could see Nigel as another NICK BERRY, who played charmer Simon “Wicksy” Wicks in the mid-Eighties.

In 1986 Nick got a No1 with Every Loser Wins.

But his only other hit was the 1992 No2 Heartbeat when he starred in the nostalgic cop show.

A Sony insider told me: “Nigel has got a great voice and great potential to be a big-selling artist. And he wouldn’t have to spend a lot of promotional time getting his face recognised. He is already one of the most famous faces in Britain so people would take to him instantly.

“It also helps that he’s the most fancied bloke in EastEnders.

“He could easily be the next Nick Berry and probably bigger. It’s a shame he’s knocked us back but we respect his decision.

“Maybe in a couple of years he’ll reconsider.”

EastEnders stars have a mixed track record when it comes to branching out into pop.

Below we show how they got on.

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Op maandag 24 mei 2004 11:41 schreef Suko het volgende:
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Yep, heb deze pics ergens anders vandaan, The Sun laat dit niet toe.

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EastEnders Helter-Skelter Catastrophe!

EASTENDERS' favourites are left fighting for their lives in a sensational new disaster storyline.

Dot Cotton and Pauline Fowler are trapped after a fairground ride collapses on them in a nail-biting episode. Viewers are left on the edge of their seats as the emergency services battle to save the pair, played by June Brown and Wendy Richards

In another tragic twist, Lynne Hobbs - played by Elaine Lordan - is caught up in the disaster and miscarries her and husband Gary's baby.

The dramatic storyline is BBC bosses' latest bid to fire the show back to the top of the soap ratings.

EastEnders had the worst figures in its 19-year history last week when just 6.4million watched Tuesday's episode.

Now TV executives are hoping the disaster storyline will put them back on top of the soap pile ahead of rivals Coronation Street and Emmerdale.

Disaster strikes during the 100th anniversary celebrations of Walford's Bridge Street Market.

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Sjonge jonge, twee bejaarden die vastzitten in een kermisatractie.
Daar gaan ze de kijkcijferoorlog mee winnen.

*Yawn*

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Op dinsdag 25 mei 2004 20:22 schreef schatje het volgende:
Heb ik trouwens al verteld hoe het nou zit met Dan Ferreira??

De acteur die hem speelt had geen verblijfsvergunning en is toen op het vliegtuig naar India gezet .

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EastEnders Executive Producer Louise Berridge may quit by the end of the week.

Louise Berridge could quit her role Executive Producer of EastEnders this week after two years. She was given the role in May 2002 after a long history with the soap working as the Series Script Editor between 1994 and 1995 and the Series Producer in the first year of 2002.

Louise Berridge, who replaced John Yorke in 2002 has come under increasing pressure from television viewers angered by the lack of well produced storylines.

An insider said “EastEnders has been very successful in the past but of recent months storylines have dried up but we don’t blame Louise, producing EastEnders like any other soap is all about team work and can be difficult at times.”

EastEnders has been struggling in the ratings, of recent months attracting an average viewing figure of 11.7 million. But last Tuesday, ratings fell to its lowest ever 6.4 million in its 19 year history, being beaten by an episode of Emmerdale.

BBC Executives are said to be worried about the figures although this hasn’t been confirmed yet, insiders are commenting Louise will “jump or be pushed.”

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Op donderdag 27 mei 2004 23:47 schreef Reticulin het volgende:
jezus, waarom chanteert alfie die andy dan gvd niet met die videoband?

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Op maandag 31 mei 2004 13:03 schreef Nicole22 het volgende:
Ik las gisteren in Scandel (Brits gossip magazine) dat Janine in het echt ook zwanger is! There must be something in the water there

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Op zondag 30 mei 2004 11:32 schreef ruby het volgende:
Zo, ik heb weer heel wat in te halen. Ben ff een weekje weggeweest. Vanmiddag ga ik me maar eens concentreren op de omnibus.

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Op maandag 31 mei 2004 16:24 schreef ruby het volgende:

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Tsss, ik heb het wederom gemist.

Naja, een paar afleveringen kijken en je bent er zo weer in.

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Op maandag 31 mei 2004 21:58 schreef ruby het volgende:

Ik snap niet dat die Berridge mag blijven. Hebben ze een gigantische plaat voor hun harses bij EE ofzo?

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Op dinsdag 1 juni 2004 23:09 schreef ruby het volgende:
Waar sloeg dit allemaal op? Blijkt die Wilfried nou gewoon een dief te zijn ofzo? Of zit hier meer achter... Gut, wat mysteries allemaal.

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in de EE-nieuwsbrief stond "Pat gets conned out of her savings" maar kan me niet herinneren dat ze geld ingelegd heeft in evans & son? want die wou wilfred toch kopen?

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Op woensdag 9 juni 2004 22:56 schreef schatje het volgende:
Corrie is ook gewoon te downloaden via een bekend kanaal. Meer kan ik niet zeggen.

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Op donderdag 10 juni 2004 17:46 schreef ruby het volgende:

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Op donderdag 10 juni 2004 20:33 schreef schatje het volgende:

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Wablief??

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Op donderdag 10 juni 2004 21:34 schreef Nicole22 het volgende:

Trouwens, niet vergeten: volgende week is EE er op maandag, woensdag en vrijdag!

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Op donderdag 10 juni 2004 21:12 schreef ruby het volgende:

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Dat je de naam van het kanaal niet mag noemen.

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Op donderdag 10 juni 2004 22:40 schreef schatje het volgende:

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Het begint met een S lieverd.

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Ander mail je mij maar.

schatje@fok.nl

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Op zaterdag 12 juni 2004 10:21 schreef Reticulin het volgende:
Toch leuk dat Robbie & Billy ff langskwamen voor het idee
Verder mogen ze t nu toch wel 's echt over een andere boeg gaan gooien...

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Op zaterdag 12 juni 2004 20:00 schreef Suko het volgende:

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Heb even Billy niet meer in het hoofd, broer van Sonia en Robbie??? Jammer dattie 'vrijer' van Pauline niet meer in beeld is, toen laatst met dat weekendje vakantie.

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Op zondag 13 juni 2004 11:33 schreef schatje het volgende:
Bianca die met de nieuwe vriend (Den, die lange uit Cliffhanger van Sylvester Stallonen) van haar moeder sliep. Machtig mooie aflevering toen toen dat uitkwam .

In New magazine las ik dat Shane Ritchie en Jessie Wallace door de Beeb op de vingers zijn getikt omdat ze de show publiekelijk zouden hebben afgekraakt. Shane is tevens van plan om de show volgend jaar lente te verlaten. En Jessie dreigt ermee als ze geen fatsoenlijke verhaallijnen krijgt.

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Kate

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Op donderdag 17 juni 2004 12:32 schreef Suko het volgende:
Huh??? Echt waar? Toch niets van gemerkt in haar rol tot nu toe, maar ja dat is EE tegenwoordig. Mogelijk gaan Alfie, Kat, Chrissy en Andy gezamelijk op cruise, kan die Andy per ongeluk over de reling worden geknikkerd, ben die gozer goed zat, net als Spencer, volkomen nutteloos figuur.

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Kate??? Nou, dat had ik niet zo gauw in gedachten eerlijk gezegd. Maar ja, misschien levert het weer leuke tv op. Weer eens wat anders dan Dot en Pauline.

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Op vrijdag 18 juni 2004 01:44 schreef Nicole22 het volgende:
Morgenochtend een special over Eastenders (met interviews en een kijkje op de set) op BBC1 van 10.00-10.30
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/3812313.stm
Ik kan niet kijken (moet werken) maar neem het wel op, ze gaan geloof ik ook Dan's mystery woman onthullen!

Oh ja en morgenavond een uur EE i.p.v. een half uur

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Op zaterdag 19 juni 2004 11:49 schreef schatje het volgende:
Ik vond het gisteren ook wel een aardige aflevering, maar bij dat jong van een Spencer dacht ik van "kan hij niet gewoon lekker doodgaan", ik erger me dood aan hem.

wat er een dinsdag komen gaat, met foto's (spoiler).

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Op dinsdag 22 juni 2004 21:33 schreef Reticulin het volgende:
poeh wat een spanning in de square

ben benieuwd hoeveel dooien er vallen

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Op donderdag 24 juni 2004 21:56 schreef Reticulin het volgende:
hehe ik vind die gesprekken tussen dot en pauline vaak wel grappig eigenlijk

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wel kut, heb t eerste kwartier gemist...heb ik toevallig dooien gemist?

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EastEnd Nigel hit by hol ban



EXHAUSTED Nigel Harman has been banned from taking a two-month break in a row with EastEnders’ chiefs.

Nigel, 30, begged for time off after going through the wringer as Dennis Rickman.

He confidently planned his holiday and told pals and DJ Jonathan Ross on his Radio 2 show.

But he was shocked when producer Louise Berridge said he was too important to them and must wait at least SIX MONTHS before even asking again.

A friend said: “Nigel is shattered. He’s had to deal with fame and a punishing filming schedule.

“But he was told ‘no way’ as they’ve got some belting stuff for him coming up. He was horrified.”

In the 14 months since he first appeared, Dennis has been reunited with dad Dirty Den and romped with adopted sister Sharon. Meanwhile, Nigel has seen other popular stars like Steve McFadden given time off as a thank you.

Last night an EastEnders’ insider said: “He was told in no uncertain terms the show comes first. He has some massive storylines coming up and there isn’t time. We will revisit his request next year.”

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Op donderdag 1 juli 2004 23:21 schreef ruby het volgende:
Die broer van Gus mogen ze wat mij betreft nu lozen. Het is alleen maar een irritante dwijl die niets toevoegt aan EE.

En die oude man die nu dood is...waar hebben ze die nou weer vandaan getrommeld?

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Op woensdag 7 juli 2004 01:49 schreef milagro het volgende:

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die was gewond geraakt toch, op de kermis en toen heeft onze nurse hem verpleegd

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Op woensdag 7 juli 2004 19:03 schreef ruby het volgende:

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Ik geloof dat ik een aflevering gemist heb...vandaar.
Ik dacht al, waarom komt Louise nou weer met deze vent op de proppen uit het niets... ?

En Schatje, die videoband zal één dezer dagen vast wel boven water komen. Het wordt weer tijd voor wat drama.

Dat zustergedoe met Sonia mag per direct verdwijnen.

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'EastEnders' sinks to new all-time low




Another hour-long Emmerdale special pushed EastEnders to a new all-time ratings low last night.

The BBC soap averaged just 6.3 million and a 34.6% share of the audience at 7.30pm, its lowest ever recorded figure. Ratings peaked with a dismal 6.9 million (36.9%) halfway through.

The news is a further blow for the show, which is going through one of the toughest periods in its nineteen-year history.

Recently ITV made no secret of its desire to oust EastEnders as the number two UK soap (behind Coronation Street) and replace it with Emmerdale, which typically averages 10 million viewers.

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Emmerdale aims to overtake EastEnders

ITV is looking to capitalise on the current ratings crisis hitting EastEnders by positioning Emmerdale as the UK's number two soap behind Coronation Street.

ITV's director of drama John Whiston told The Guardian today: "I want to build Emmerdale into the number two soap in the UK. Two or three years ago I wouldn't have believed that was possible, but now I do.

"Emmerdale seems to be going from strength to strength at the moment. EastEnders may come storming back, [but] there's also a chance things might spiral further into decline. A couple of years before the end of Brookside you would never have thought it was going to go down the pan. It happened really dramatically."

Last month ITV pitted a series of hour-long Emmerdale specials directly against EastEnders on Tuesday nights - suprisingly, it emerged victor, sending the ratings for the BBC soap down to its lowest ever.

"That moment caught Emmerdale on a particular roll and EastEnders on a particular low. If you lock people in with good, gripping stuff, they stay with it. Particularly if the alternative is all doom and gloom," said Whiston. "If you get the pacing right [for 60-minute specials], it feels fresh and gathers its own momentum. But it's got to be special, not just schedule filling."

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SHANE RICHIE is at the centre of a bidding war between BBC and ITV following rumours he is to quit EastEnders.

The actor, who plays Alfie Moon, has been offered a big budget Victorian period drama to keep him at the BBC.

But ITV are also hoping to poach him for a cop drama based at the Met in London.

The move comes after Shane, 40, dropped heavy hints that he may leave the BBC1 soap early next year. A source close to Richie said: “Shane is happy at EastEnders, but has never said he’ll be there forever.

“He has hinted he may leave next spring so the BBC are offering him other drama roles hoping he will take a break to try other projects then return to the soap. But ITV are also interested and have a police drama planned.

“Shane has also considered returning to the theatre and doing a musical tour, but he really wants a big movie role. He is keeping his options open and waiting to see what offers come in.”

More than 15million viewers saw Alfie wed Kat Slater, played by Jessie Wallace, at Christmas.

An EastEnders insider added: “Shane has no immediate plans to go and there are some great storylines being lined up for him.”

On Tuesday EastEnders had the lowest audience in its 19-year history with just 6.3million viewers after it was hit by a one-hour Emmerdale special.

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Op vrijdag 9 juli 2004 21:50 schreef Suko het volgende:
Vrouwen hebben in EE niet echt meer een sterke rol als het op mannen aankomt, zie Chrissy, Kate, Kat, Zoe, alles doen om het mannetje te behagen en te behouden. Time for a big shake-up!

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Op vrijdag 9 juli 2004 23:31 schreef Reticulin het volgende:

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niet allemaal, ouwe mo staat 'r mannetje wel

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Op zaterdag 10 juli 2004 05:55 schreef Suko het volgende:

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Die heeft dan ook geen vent.........

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HELL KAT
EASTENDERS star Jessie Wallace is exposed today as a violent, foul-mouthed, sex-crazed hellcat who has made her lover's life a nightmare.

The pregnant actress who plays brassy Kat Moon has had a terrifying series of bust-ups with ex-cop Dave Morgan that left him bruised and cut.

And she even tried to seduce one of Dave's old mates as she got drunk during a 9am karaoke session at her luxury home.

Shocked Winston Rollock says the BBC star who was wearing only a pink thong and see-through nightie patted her bottom and told him: "I've never made love to a black man before."

The blatant seduction attempt was just one of the outrageous incidents Winston witnessed as he spent eight months working on the home that Jessie, 32, shares with Dave.

Winston, 38, revealed how the Albert Square sex siren...

MADE ex-cop Dave's life hell with her violent temper and foul-mouthed rants.

PUNCHED him, gashed his face and branded him a wimp.

GUZZLED champagne in one 9am drinking binge and bourbon whiskey in another.

SMOKED cannabis before her pregnancy and kept a bag of the drug at home.

SUGGESTED a bondage game with Winston.

RAGED at her EastEnders co-stars in a foul tirade that made sleazy star Leslie Grantham look caring.

Winston told The People: "Jessie is a one-woman tornado who destroys everything in her wake.

"She had a foul mouth and even fouler temper. She could pick a fight with her own shadow and she and Dave scrapped like cat and dog."I saw her give him a black eye once. She never showed him any affection except in magazine photo shoots but she tried to seduce ME.

"Dave gave up his police career for her and is training as a fireman but she hates the fact that he's often skint and calls him a ponce for scrounging off her.

"Life with Jessie was a terrifying roller coaster. I thought pregnancy would mellow her but not a chance."

Winston's revelations will rock EastEnders' bosses still reeling after The People exposed Leslie Grantham as an internet pervert. They have repeatedly warned fiery Jessie about her off-screen behaviour.

Last year she was accused by a cabbie of hitting him and calling him "Bin Laden." Then she was alleged to have hit co-star Hannah Waterman at a BBC party.

She was suspended from the BBC soap for two months last year.

But she appeared to have settled down with Dave, 28 - whom she met after being arrested for drink-driving - and the couple are expecting their first baby in November.

But Winston revealed their lovey-dovey interviews with celebrity mags like Hello! are hiding the truth about their stormy relationship.

Recalling the day Jessie tried to seduce him, Winston said: "One Sunday morning last November she and Dave were in a foul mood with each other.

"Dave stormed out of the house while I was working upstairs and I heard Jessie call me down.

"When I arrived in the living room she was sloshing back Jack Daniels dressed in a black nightie and a pink thong and singing Wham!'s hit Wake Me Up Before You Go Go on her karaoke machine. She poured me a glass of bourbon and I reluctantly had a sip or two to please her.

"Suddenly Elvis's Suspicious Minds came on and she started running her hands up and down her body like a pole dancer.

"Then Jessie pulled her top down and urged me to dance with her before saying 'I've never made love to a black man before'. She then jumped on to the settee and patted her bottom. I felt so embarrassed that I got up and walked away and got on with my job.

"Moments later she came up the stairs and laid herself on the landing urging me to make love to her.

"By this time Dave had come back. He saw she was drunk and pulled her away. The next morning he apologised for her behaviour but I told Dave I thought she needed psychiatric help. From that moment whenever Dave was out I'd always turn up with a mate because I didn't trust her.

"On one occasion she gave me some bondage tape and said 'Try that out Win'. I thought 'I'm out of here'."

Winston said Jessie continued to flirt with him and flash her boobs by wandering around in a nightie.

He said: "She would come out of the bedroom showing off all her bits to me. I was really embarrassed. I would never take advantage of a pal's girlfriend." Wood polisher Winston spent eight months working at Jessie's £500,000 home in Wanstead, East London, from September last year.

He said: "I knew Dave for years before he met Jessie. One day he told me he had some sanding work and asked if I was interested. He drove me around to this plush house in Wanstead and parked around the corner.

"After checking the coast was clear - which I thought was a bit strange - we rushed up the path to be greeted by Jessie at the door with a big grin.

"Dave just said 'Meet my new bird'. I was gobsmacked. I'm a big EastEnders fan and here was one of my closest mates dating the biggest star."

After agreeing to sand, polish and stain her top floor bedroom Winston and Jessie became pals while Dave was out doing night shifts.

Winston said: "To begin with Jessie was an angel cooking me roast dinners and bringing me up cups of tea .

"When one job finished she lined up another so I was there for months.

"We even all went out clubbing at London's Elysium nightclub. Jessie was getting well sloshed on champagne and vodka and coke.

"The bill that night for our group came to over £800 for just the drinks but Jessie was happy to pay.

"She was blotto and up for some fun. She was acting up playing a lesbian in front of everybody, especially Dave's firemen pals. She was so drunk she tripped over on the way out to the cab."

Winston told how Jessie and Dave were thrilled to land their first glossy magazine shoot together.

But when Winston arrived for work that morning Jessie was slurping giant wine glasses of Lanson champagne on the doorstep at 9am.

Winston said: "She thought it was very funny and was mixing her words."

He told how he tried to ignore the furious rows between the pair.

But even the drone of his sanding machine couldn't drown out the noise.

"Jessie hated the fact that Dave was always skint," said Winston.

"He gave up his police career to train as a fire-fighter so he could be near her but had to hand over a big chunk of his salary to his ex-partner for the upkeep of his daughter.

"Even when I was there on my own she'd call him a ponce for scrounging off her all the time.

"She thought he was being too wimpy and not standing up to his ex. She was also convinced Dave wanted a threesome with another girl and was always teasing him."

Winston fell out with Jessie because he claims she owes him £3,800 for renovating her staircase.

When he called her last week to discuss the matter, he says Jessie launched into another wild rage.

Winston said: "She told me 'Listen here I owe you nothing. I owe you nothing. I'll get my solicitors involved. You are a c***'."

Winston added: "In the end Jessie destroyed our friendship, not me.

"Dave's still a good mate but after what I witnessed I'll only ever go near Jessie again if I'm wearing a hard-hat."

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WHAT SHE THINKS OF HER CO-STARS

JESSIE launched a vicious attack on her EastEnders' co-stars which will horrify them and the show's bosses.

Winston revealed: "One day I was relaxing in her kitchen during a tea break. I was looking at a picture on her fridge of a few EastEnders stars.

"Above Elaine Lordan's head had been written the words bald c***.'

"When I asked Jessie what that was all about the floodgates opened as she ranted: 'Don't talk to me about that f***ing bird she's a complete c***. I can't f***ing stand her. I asked who else she didn't like and this deluge of bile poured out. I was stunned."

Foul-mouthed Jessie said of Steve McFadden who plays Phil Mitchell: "He's a plonker who thinks he's a real-life f***ing gangster."

She claimed McFadden had "a pop" at her in the BBC canteen after she won a soap award for sexiest female. Winston said: "She told me she grabbed a sausage and threatened to shove it up his backside." Jessie described Hannah Waterman - Laura Beale - as "a fat cow" and Gary Beadle - Paul Trueman - as "a fibber on the make".

Kim Medcalfe - Sam Mitchell - will not be amused to know that Jessie thinks she's "a useless actress"."

Jessie got her own back on Leslie Grantham who called her "vile" and "a dog" during his attacks on co-stars exposed by The People. She said he was a "c***" and an overpaid "t***er" who had snarled at her when he returned to the show. He had growled: "I've come to get my f***ing pub back.".

Jessie also attacked Barbara Windsor who is returning to the show shortly. She called her an "effing grass" by outrageously claiming she once got EastEnders' doctors to come to her house to check up that she was really sick while off work.

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Grant Mitchell to make a comeback?
Grant Mitchell is set for a "sensational" comeback to Albert Square, the Daily Star claims today.

The character - played by actor Ross Kemp - will apparently be back to take on resident mobster Andy Hunter after his sister Sam Mitchell attempts to kill herself.

Sam (Kim Medcalf) tries to end it all when she discovers that her lover Andy has conned her out of all of her businesses and is now the owner of the Queen Vic.

Her cry for help prompts the return of Grant - as well as their battleaxe mum Peggy (Barbara Windsor) - who then team up to stop Andy from selling the Vic.

"Grant and Peggy are determined to get revenge on Andy Hunter, and there's no way they'll allow him to sell their pub," a source told the newspaper. "It's going to be a gripping storyline. Grant is back and he's a man on the edge."

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PREGNANT EastEnders star Jessie Wallace is terrified that her break-up with her fiancé could harm her unborn baby.

Heartbroken Jessie — Kat Slater in the soap — says the painful split has made her ill and she fears it will affect the child in her womb.

Jessie, 32, dumped former cop Dave Morgan on Sunday after he failed to stop a pal selling a pack of lies about her to a newspaper.

Jessie who is five-and-a-half months pregnant, said yesterday: “I just feel like I’ve been totally trodden on. How much worse can things get?

“The past days have been awful, absolutely awful.

“I am terrified that all the pain and upset I have been feeling goes straight to my baby.

“This baby is the most important thing in the world to me and I’d hate anything to happen.

“But the truth is all this stress has made me ill.”

[bJessie was furious that trainee fireman Dave, 29, did not protect her from his friend Winston Rollock’s lurid claims.[/b]

Off-duty firefighter Winston, who had been polishing wooden floors in her house, accused her of drinking in the morning and then asking him for sex.

He also claimed she had smoked dope and slagged off her co-stars.

Horrified Jessie denied the allegations and claimed that Winston threatened to hurt her if she didn’t pay him money she owed.

Now she has sent Dave packing and changed the locks to her £500,000 East London home to make a new start as a single mum.

Jessie, whose baby is due in November, said yesterday: “I just don’t understand what has happened between me and Dave. I am just so bewildered by it all.

“It’s best that me and Dave are apart, for both of us. It’s not fair on him and it’s not fair on me.

“We have been arguing a lot and maybe my hormones are a part of it. I am really emotional at the moment with everything that is going on.

“There’s just too much pressure. I felt bewildered by it and I need some time on my own. Every time we went round a corner more problems kept hitting us and it just became too much. I had to end it.

“I have to put my foot down and look after myself, especially because I am five-and-a-half months pregnant.

“It’s not fair on my baby and it’s not fair on me. I just want to be on my own at the moment. I need time to think and clear my head.

“I need my friends around me and some normality back in my life to be honest. Luckily the pregnancy is going fine. He or she is kicking away right now in my tummy.”

Jessie, who met Dave in March last year when he escorted her to court for a drink-drive case, said she was distraught when she learned his friend had been spreading lies about her.

She now plans to sue over the article, which appeared on Sunday. Her spokesman confirmed last night she is to take out a High Court writ.

Fighting back tears, Jessie said: “I can’t believe someone could do this to me. But he’s not going to get away with it because I am taking legal action. What he said was all completely and totally untrue and it really, really hurts.

“I can’t have people making up this stuff about me, especially now I have a baby to think about.

“He is just out to make a quick buck. He is dirt for doing it. It’s disgusting. How can he claim I’d make a pass at him. In his dreams! I would never do that.

“I trusted Winston because he was Dave’s friend. What a stupid thing to do.

“He claimed that I used to chat with him and said things about members of the cast — I would never do that in a million years.”

Jessie said she was particularly upset by Winston’s claims that she had slagged off her co-stars, including Barbara Windsor.

Jessie said: “I think the world of Barbara Windsor, I idolise her. The last thing I would ever do is say anything derogatory about her. It has caused me so much distress. I have cried and cried. On Saturday night I felt like I was going insane. I just collapsed.

“I cannot believe that anyone who is supposed to be a friend of Dave’s could do this to me.

“It has been awful and frightening. Winston was even threatening me. The stuff he told me was horrific. He told me he was hanging round with some nasty characters.

“He really scared me, he kept calling me. I should have gone to the police but it’s a bit late now. I wanted to show him the shoddy workmanship he’d done. He took a lot of money off me but he held his hand out for more.

“Then I told him, ‘I can’t give you any more. The work you’ve done is disgusting’.

“So he started saying really bad things and threatening me. It was frightening.

“He said, ‘I can tell people lots of things about you’. I said, ‘Are you threatening me?’ He said, ‘If you want to call it that, yeah.’

“My problem is I am too trusting and, because of my job, people think they can take advantage by charging me the earth. This guy was an off-duty fireman who thought he could make a bit of money, cash in hand, on the side. I paid him about £15,000, but he still wanted more.

“My mum and my family had to read his lies, that I was offering my body to him. It’s vile. He claimed I was drinking at nine in the morning. He was never there that early.”

Jessie added: “This has been one of the hardest times I have ever been through.

“I’ve been feeling far from OK, but I’ve picked myself up, I’ve got my friends around me looking after me and I’ll get through this. I need to be calm. I will not allow this to upset me too much.

“The worst has been done now. Things have to go my way. I am just sticking with my friends and pigging out on chocolate.”

Jessie added: “What really matters to me is my baby first, my family and friends and my career at EastEnders.

“I love my job, all I ever wanted to be was an actress and I am on the biggest show on TV.

“The most important thing for me is that I will soon be a mum and can put all this behind me.”

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TAKE ME BACK, JESSIE

Heartache of EastEnder Kat's dumped lover as he faces lonely penniless life in dreary bedsit

THE dumped fiance of EastEnders star Jessie Wallace is desperate to be reunited with her after confessing he is penniless, lonely and living in a grotty bedsit.

Speaking to a pal after pregnant Jessie, 32, kicked him out, ex-cop Dave Morgan revealed: "I'm away from my girlfriend and I'm missing her like mad.

"Jessie's carrying my baby and needs my support but I can't go back.

"I'm engaged to the girl, I've lived with her and got a baby on the way in four months but she won't get back with me.

"My relationship has ended. Me and Jessie are finished. She is taking me to the cleaners."

Trainee fireman Dave, 28, was kicked out of the actress's luxury home last week after The People revealed that his life with Jessie - who plays tarty Kat Moon - had become unbearable.

Now, in an angry phone conversation with close pal Winston Rollock, Dave has revealed he is:

BROKE and living in a dingy bedsit with not even enough money to get to work and sometimes forced to stay with his parents.

CAUGHT in the middle of two warring families as his relatives and Jessie's blame each other for the crisis.

SUFFERING humiliation at work because of the high-profile separation.

UNDER orders from furious Jessie not to speak to pal Winston again.

Dave - in the tenth week of a 20-week training course at Southwark fire station in South London - last week told Winston in a voice trembling with anger: "I come home from work and I'm in a bedsit.

"I've got nowhere to live and I haven't got a pot - I can't even afford to travel backwards and forwards to work hence why I was at my mum and dad's because I can't afford to f***ing travel.

"I'm in some poxy little bedsit in Southwark. I've got f*** all. Absolutely f*** all.

"Right now I've been sleeping in a bedsit for over a week.

"I'm f***ing missing Jessie. She's carrying my baby and she's heartbroken.

"I've also been kipping round my mum and dad's house. I've got nothing."

Dave spoke to Winston, 38, about his new torment despite blaming the French wood polisher for destroying his relationship with Jessie.

Winston worked for eight months at the star's £500,000 luxury home in Wanstead, East London.

Dave had moved in there after the fiery actress fell for him last year when he was her police escort at her drink-drive court hearing.

Dave, who has to hand over a chunk of his salary for the upkeep of his young daughter from a previous relationship, even gave up his job as a police officer so he could spend more time with Jessie.

But last Monday the furious star booted him out after The People revealed that Dave had confided to Winston about his life with Jessie. She claims the story is untrue and is suing for libel.

In the latest phone call to Winston, devastated Dave told him: "I confided in you as a mate. You know the stresses Jessie goes through with all the aggravation and s*** she stands for.

"My life with Jessie, I told you about the ups and downs with her and you have completely put the dampeners on that now big style.

"Me and Jessie have split up over this. You've known her long enough now to know the heartache Jessie goes through.

"I sat there heartbroken and have tried to see the sense in it all.

"My family have fallen out with Jessie over this.

"You've caused them to fall out and now caused Jessie to fall out with her family over this. You know how much I wanted a baby with Jessie.

"Everybody thinks what a pair. That's what they are thinking.

"I've had Jessie on the phone in tears all because you opened your big mouth.

"Jessie had told me 'Don't tell him f*** all because he's a wrong 'un' - but I believed you over her.

"I've had to line up on the parade ground with my squad and everybody looking at me.

"You don't realise how humiliating that was for me.

"The phone has not stopped ringing."

Jessie has now changed the locks at her home so Dave can't get back in.

He has been sleeping at his parents' six-bed luxury £825,000 home in Maldon, Essex, as well as the bedsit.

His mother Barbara said: "We're looking after him. He doesn't want to talk about any of this at the moment." Dave has publicly vowed to stand by Jessie and their baby when it is born in November.

In a statement he said: "She has my complete support throughout the rest of her pregnancy.

"I am really excited about the birth of my baby and being a hands-on dad."

EastEnders bosses have reassured Jessie that her TV role as barmaid Kat will be kept open for her when she takes time off to give birth.

Jessie had feared that her turbulent private life might cost her the £125,000-a-year job.

She shielded her eyes with huge sunglasses when she returned to work on the EastEnders set at Elstree, Herts, after her split with Dave.

Her soap character is currently involved in a gripping storyline as dramatic as real life.

Kat is trying to patch things up with husband Alfie - played by Shane Richie - after they cheated on each other.

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'EastEnders' star has heart attack



EastEnders actor Ian Lavender was rushed to hospital after suffering a heart attack, the News of the World reports today.

The 58-year-old, nice guy Derek Harkinson in the BBC soap, was on a break at his holiday home in Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk when he complained of chest pains.

A local paramedic rushed the star to the town's casualty unit, where a serious heart attack was diagnosed. He was then moved to the Papworth heart hospital in Cambridge and was kept there for two days.

Now doctors have apparently advised Lavender to cut back on his "strenuous" filming schedule to avoid causing serious damage.

An EastEnders spokesman confirmed that Lavender is now recovering at home.

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EXCLUSIVE: EastEnder Babs trades some foul-mouthed jibes with her co-star Jessie Wallace

Bab's effing katfight

EASTENDERS wildcats Barbara Windsor and Jessie Wallace Albert Squared up to each other in an astonishing four-letter bust-up at the BBC studios.

Stunned crew members looked on as six-months-pregnant Jessie, 32, and 66-year-old Babs yelled insults at each other, effing and blinding in a way that would make their Cockney telly characters blush.

The screaming match kicked off after Jessie—who plays Kat Moon—tried to apologise over claims in another newspaper that she had called Barbara (Peggy Mitchell) an "effing cow".

An onlooker said: "They were really laying into each other and calling each other all the names under the sun.



_{BABS KICKS IT OFF: 'I don't accept your apology you ****ig bitch'}

"There was a lot of finger-wagging and shouting in each other's faces for at least five minutes. It never got physical, but it was nasty all the same."

The row at the Elstree studios on Friday happened after the pair came face-to-face for the first time since a Sunday newspaper published an article in which Winston Rollock, a friend of Jessie's ex-fiancé Dave Morgan, made a series of claims about Jessie.



_{THEN JESSIE HITS BACK: 'Who the **** do you think that you are?'}

Sick

He said she had once called Babs an "effing cow" because she believed the veteran star suggested EastEnders doctors check she was really sick when she couldn't work.

Jessie insists Rollock's claims are lies and is suing the paper.

According to one of the crew who witnessed Friday's row, Barbara went into a rage after Jessie tried to apologise for the misunderstanding. Our source said:

"Barbara just flew at her and said, ‘Don't you talk to me'.

"Jessie said, ‘What's wrong, why are you shouting at me?' Barbara shouted, ‘You ****ing bitch!' We were all stunned, we couldn't believe it."

But a friend of Barbara claimed that she was hurt and offended when Jessie came up and said, almost as a throwaway remark, ‘You know I said sorry, don't you, Bar'.

"It was a very off-hand apology. She didn't seem concerned that she had upset Barbara.

"Barbara didn't accept the apology because she didn't feel it was sincere.

"She just wanted to get on with her work and didn't want to discuss it at all. This was like a red rag to a bull for Jessie.

"Barbara says that Jessie was really abusive. She was screaming abuse at Barbara and saying, ‘Who the **** do you think you are? I don't give a **** about you'.

"The abuse went on for several minutes. She accepts that she said things back to Jessie, but she felt that it was up to Jessie to make amends."

Then Jessie's agent Lucy Brazier weighed in. She contacted the News of the World to give her version of events, saying: "Jessie had already rung to apologise and was keen to make amends in person.

"She went over to Barbara and said, ‘Barbara, I'm really sorry about what happened'.

"Her apology was dismissed and, yes, words were exchanged, but it wasn't provoked by Jessie."

She said Jessie looked on Babs as an ‘icon' and an ‘inspiration' and a close friend of Jessie also told how the star had two treasured photographs of the ex-Carry On queen in her living room.

The friend said: "What would she be doing with those if she wasn't one of her biggest fans?"

Babs has just returned to work after 18 months' sick leave, fighting a virus. She returned to shoot the wedding of her screen daughter Sam and gangster lover Andy Hunter, which will be shown in September.

The row with Jessie has put her permanent return to the show—set for early next year—in doubt.

Upset

She is furious that Enders bosses appear to blame her for the bust-up.

Her friend said: "She is extremely upset by the row and is seriously considering walking away from the soap altogether."

Bad girl Jessie has had a string of run-ins with show bosses about her off-screen behaviour. Since she joined the soap four years ago, she has appeared in court on a drink-drive charge, had boozy bust-ups with co-stars and been suspended.

But this time she feels she's the one in the right.

Agent Lucy said: "She feels vehemently that she is the wronged party in this case."

A Beeb spokesman said: "Jessie Wallace and Barbara Windsor cleared the air following recent press allegations and they went on set and worked together in a highly professional manner."


Shane blasted too



BLABBERMOUTH star Shane Richie got a furious dressing down from EastEnders bosses after bragging that he is going to quit the show.

Shane (above centre), Kat's partner and Queen Vic landlord Alfie Moon in the soap, was hauled into a meeting with bosses, along with James Alexandrou, who plays Martin Fowler, after they were overheard gossiping about Richie's departure.

Executive producer Louise Berridge gave them both a stern warning on Friday over their backstage chat at Party in the Park earlier this month. An insider said: "Shane was given a real dressing down. Louise is fed up with Shane's boasting."

James, 19 (inset above), who is also said to be thinking of quitting, got off more lightly.

Shane, 40, told his Walford pal: "It's the worst-kept secret in showbiz that I'm going. I've had enough." He advised James to stay for two years.

Joining the soap was a comeback for Richie, who has now hinted at a project in America.

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McFadden delays 'EastEnders' return

Steve McFadden has delayed his EastEnders comeback to appear in panto this Christmas, The Sun reports today.

The actor, better known as the Square's resident hardman Phil Mitchell, announced a twelve month break from the soap last year to give him time to pursue other projects.

He was due to return this December alongside onscreen mum Barbara Windsor (Peggy Mitchell), but has instead opted to appear as Captain Hook in Milton Keynes.

McFadden will earn around £100,000 for the six-week stint, around half of his annual salary from the BBC.

The news means he will now not be back on screens until March next year at the earliest.

A BBC spokesman told the newspaper that there were "no current plans" for McFadden to make a comeback.

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No 'EastEnders' return for Kemp

Earlier this month, the press reported on Ross Kemp's return to Albert Square as Walford's own hardman, Grant Mitchell.

His return was rumoured to coincide with his on-screen sister's attempted suicide and Andy Hunter's Queen Vic takeover. Unfortunately for 'Easty' fans, these rumours have been quashed.

A BBC spokeswoman said: "There are currently no plans for Ross Kemp or his character Grant Mitchell to return, absolutely none."

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SPOILER

New "low-life" family join 'EastEnders'

EastEnders producers are bringing in a new controversial family to try and boost flagging ratings, The Sun claims today.

The new clan are related to wheeler-dealer Mickey Miller (Joe Swash) and are said to be so "low-life" that they "make the Slaters look like royalty."

Among those moving into the Square are Mickey's mum, dad and younger brother, as well as his 13-year-old sister, who is seven months pregnant.

"They are a real bunch of scruffs," a source told the newspaper. "They arrive with a flea-bitten Irish wolfhound in a battered old ice cream van driven by Mickey. The first out of the van is the pregnant 13-year-old and within minutes she is the talk of the Queen Vic."

The Millers will be seen on screens from September.

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Op maandag 26 juli 2004 12:16 schreef Nicole22 het volgende:

Ik heb een aflevering gemist, maar zijn Sonia en Martin nu toch op huwelijksreis? En voor hoelang?

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EASTENDERS IN CRISIS: THE SHELLEY REPORT

AFTER 19 years, EastEnders is going down the Swanee.

When most people heard the news that a recent episode of EastEnders had hit an all-time low of just 6.3million viewers, their reaction was one of amazement. Not "Is that all?" but, "Blimey! As many as that!!"

For years, EastEnders was not just the most popular show in Britain but a symbol for the country, a barometer. It was the show the nation would talk about long before the term "water-cooler television" became an industry buzz-word.

But today it has become a laughing stock with even regular viewers watching out of morbid fascination to see if it can get any worse.

So while Lord Butler is still too busy defending his report on the Iraq balls-up, we invited Lord Shelley of Shelleyvision (aka Mirror TV Critic Jim Shelley) to probe this vital issue: What has happened to EastEnders?

Where did it all go wrong?

Who is to blame?

And what should be done?

Lord Butler, eat yer 'eart aht.

'APPY DAYS: A historical overview

FOR anyone under the age of 20 watching EastEnders today - with its joyless mix of nonsensical characterisation, ridiculous romances, and the gormless glorification of petty criminality - it must be hard to believe it was ever so good or so popular.

During the show's heyday - probably the mid 90s, when Phil and Grant were in their pomp and David Wicks was shagging anything in a skirt - it had an array of characters whose fortunes you actually cared about.

It was capable of a constant stream of storylines that were gripping, moving, and (get this!) even humorous. EastEnders actually mattered. It was even complex.

When Tiffany Mitchell died (mown down, stupendously, by Frank Butcher, whose run-up stretched all the way to Manchester) there was virtually a national debate as to whether Grant had ever really loved her.

The audience figures were phenomenal. In 1986, the Christmas episode in which Dirty Den gave his wife Angie her divorce papers clocked up an astonishing 30.6 million viewers.

In 2002, 16 million spent Christmas watching Jamie Mitchell die - beating Corrie - and even last year's bout of festive misery won an audience of 14 million.

But the success of the Christmas specials has only masked the symptoms of decline that have spread through the show like a virus.

Last year, in the months leading up to Christmas, only the Kat and Alfie romance kept the show going - and now even that has soured, ruined by the Andy Hunter subplots and reduced to a series of miserable screaming matches.

SHAPE OF THE PEAR: Where did it all go wrong?

A: THE GHOST OF DIRTY DEN

IT'S tempting to identify the start of the show's decline as being the return of Dirty Den - mostly because I predicted as much at the time ("Do we look like doughnuts?").

Last September, 17 million people watched Den shuffle from the shadows (presumably with his hands in his pockets, where they have steadfastly remained ever since) and greet his daughter Sharon with the immortal words: "Hello, Princess."

At the time, the ratings must have left the Powers That Be at EastEnders feeling vindicated - but Den II was a major mistake, one that undermined the show's credibility fatally, just as the Bobby Ewing shower scene/dream did for Dallas. Turning the show's most famous piece of history (that Den was killed beside the canal by a man carrying a bunch of daffodils) into a lie was a major insult to the intelligence of its audience. The scriptwriters taking viewers for fools.

The re-written version of the show's history now decreed that Den - penniless and bloodied - had somehow crawled all the way to Spain, undetected by the gangsters who had tried to assassinate him, only to be tracked down by no less a sleuth than, um, Vicki.

It required that the Mr Big at the time (Dalton) killed the blundering hitman and dumped his body in EXACTLY the same place in the canal where wounded Den had fallen in.

"People don't just come back from the dead !" Sharon sobbed. "Dad, you have to tell me something I can BELIEVE." Yeah, us too.

Disastrously, every time a new character wandered into Den's life like Kate or Den's (ludicrous) wife Chrissie, it necessitated that Vicki and Sharon fill them in on why they all thought Den was dead for 15 years.

The younger characters (understandably) also derided the idea that Den was meant to be some sort of hardman.

Recent episodes concentrating on Den's status as a ladies' man were then turned into a mockery when Leslie Grantham's grubby exploits in front of a webcam made Den look even more of a seedy old has-been than he did already.

But as much as one would like to lay the blame entirely at The Ghost of Dirty Den's door, EastEnders had actually lost the plot long before he came back. In fact, that's WHY they had to bring him back. Desperation.

B: THE FERREIRA FAMILY

ANOTHER unmitigated disaster - worse than the di Marcos.

The Ferreiras' father, Dan, was probably not just the worst character in soap, but the most annoying, unlikeable person on all television. Inveterate gambler, Ash and daughter Kareena are mere ciphers while Adi is just weird - like a gay version of a character from Rainbow.

Ronny Ferreira, meanwhile, was no more than an updated version of a previous character, DJ Lenny, and presided over the most boring storyline in EastEnders' history when viewers spent several weeks watching him lying in bed growing a beard (ie waiting for a kidney transplant).

The fact that the Ferreiras STILL haven't been axed shows how indecisive and complacent the show's executives have become.

C: THE HOLLYOAKS-IFICATION OF EASTENDERS..

(.. culminating in New Year's farcical mini-van trip to the Arctic wastes of Scotland.)

Threatened by the teenage following for Hollyoaks, EastEnders reiterated its vulnerability by copying rather than leading when it suddenly packed the cast with a series of bland, moronic "youngsters" such as Vicki, Spencer, Kelly, Kareena, and Gus. Disastrously - unlike Hollyoaks - only Zoe had any kind of sex appeal.

It's indicative of how dumb EastEnders' creators have become that they weren't smart enough to give Zoe a bar job at The Vic even when she LIVED there.

And they failed to spot that most obvious of storylines - pitching her in an oldest rogue/prettiest girl scenario (with Dirty Den). For most of her time in the series, Zoe hasn't even had a boyfriend.

D: THE DEPARTURE OF PHIL AND GRANT MITCHELL

THE producers would have been far better off using the money they spent on Leslie Grantham coaxing Ross Kemp back to the Square.

Since Phil went (ridiculously) on the run having been (improbably) framed by master criminal Den, the mantle of 'Enders' gangster-in-chief has passed to the laughable Andy Hunter, played by Michael Higgs.

Higgs has a certain presence, but has crumpled under the storylines he has been given.

Supposedly the biggest gangster in the area, Hunter spends weeks mooching around after Kat like a kid in the playground rather than just having Alfie's legs broken, while his "firm" consists of Phil's sister Sam, Billy Mitchell, Minty and, this week, Pat - who admittedly is pretty scary.

HAVING A GIRAFFE: Other general problems

AS if all these issues weren't pivotal enough, EastEnders has a number of other, more pervasive problems:

A: TOTALLY UNCONVINCING RELATIONSHIPS

THE list of relationships that are rubbish is as ridiculous as it is long, including: Sonia and Martin - the lout who killed Jamie, the love of her life - (in itself a pretty unconvincing coupling), Ian and Kate, Den and Kate, Dennis and Sharon, Garry and Lynne, Jim and Patrick...

B: EVERYONE'S SKINT

NO ONE (except Ian Beale and the "gangsters" like Andy and Den) ever has any money. Entire families - the Slaters, the Ferreiras, the Moons - spend entire weeks doing nothing but moaning about struggling to pay the mortgage and being broke.

You know what?

GET A JOB! Get a job in a solicitor's office doing the photocopying. Get a job in a supermarket stacking shelves. Just. Get. A. Job. OK?

Hold on. I forgot. None of them has a GCSE between them. They're all thick, indolent morons.

C: TIRESOME OBSESSION WITH PETTY CRIME

THE worst examples of this include the Moaner Lisa's attempt to shoot Phil Mitchell (twice!) and Sam Mitchell's degeneration into a sub-Lindsey Corkhill "gangster-ess". The show's other myriad criminals include: Andy, Den, Dennis, Phil Mitchell, Billy Mitchell, Juley, Tariq, Martin, Minty, Mickey, Bloody Big Mo, Charlie and Paul. Even (Ba)Nana Moon's partner Wilfred turned out to be bent.

It's about time the show developed a moral code.

It's bad enough the way the show cynically exploits the TV audience's interest in crime.

But at some point (usually when some ridiculous relationship goes wrong), the show always asks the audience to sympathise or empathise with the people who the previous weeks were scum (Billy Mitchell, Tariq ... in fact all of the above).

At the recent fairground disaster, for example, Den and Dennis were suddenly transformed into pillars of the community. Its creators need to recognise that EastEnders has become populated almost entirely with thugs and thieves, cheats and liars, boorish bullies, all of whom are actually thoroughly unpleasant.

CONCLUSION: Are you lissun-ing, you doughnuts?

BROOKSIDE'S problem was that once a soap starts turning the good characters it has - Jimmy and Jackie Corkhill, for instance - into stupid ones, pretty soon you have none left.

This has already happened to EastEnders' best (and only good) characters - Dennis and Sharon, and Kat and Alfie (ruined by Andy Hunter's farcical involvement). These four have to be the show's core.

It has lost sex symbols like Mel and Cindy and dashing ladies' men like Steve Owen, David Wicks, Tricky Dicky, and Dan Sullivan, and never replaced them. Admittedly, over the past year it has got rid of a lot of dross - Laura, Mark, Ricky, Lisa, Barry, Robbie, Nat, Shirley (and her cat) - but that simply goes to show just how bad it really was.

An immediate hit-list should include - in order of priority: Andy, Charlie, Vicki, Lynne, Gus and Juley (or at least get them to go back to speaking English), Geordie Kate (ditto),(Ba)Nana Moon and - it goes without saying - The Ghost of Dirty Den and the Ferreiras.

Don't bring back Lisa or Natalie or Ricky (again).

Stop doing those surreal spin-offs about Frank Butcher or Pat and Mo.

Stop bleating on about the War, the Jubilee, the Pearly Kings and Queens and, above all, Arthur's bench.

No more rapes (especially Little Mo - who has, like us, suffered enough). In fact, drop the crime in general.

(Obvious point here: Brookside was packed with it. Corrie has hardly any. Which did better?)

GET SOME LIKEABLE CHARACTERS: FIND some people viewers would actually WANT to have loitering in the corner of their living rooms.

Develop some storylines that have HUMOUR. It's a radical concept I know, but Phil and Grant's japes in Ibiza, Italy and Calais were classics.

Bring back David Wicks. Bring back Phil and Grant. Re-cast the part of Sam Mitchell (again). In fact, bring back Danniella Westbrook. Bring back Janine. Bring back scriptwriting guru Tony Jordan or someone like Tony McHale to over-see the storylines. Stop writing scripts where the characters point out all the things the audience are thinking (Dot Cotton: "Is it bad ?" Pauline: "It's not good".)

For years, Coronation Street has seamlessly evolved to maintain its place as the best soap on television, while in recent years Emmerdale has re-invented itself totally from a series about sheep into a sharp, relevant modern soap.

As it is, its London rival's fate is clear: Eldorado, Albion Market, Crossroads, Brookside... EastEnders RIP.

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Op dinsdag 27 juli 2004 17:33 schreef Suko het volgende:
En het is allemaal zo WAAR! Vooral dat terug brengen van Den was een enorme blunder! Het is niet alleen nu al vaak boring, dat is al een tijdje zo+ongeloofwaardig, denken ze idd dat we sukkels zijn en alles maar vreten wat de EE-pot schaft. Ik hoop echt dat het gaat veranderen en dat die Louse een schop onder haar kont krijgt, anders vrees ik het ergste. (maar ik blijf wél kijken (en eventueel zeiken) tot het bittere eind!)

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IT is a rule of Soap that its success goes in cycles. The greater the success of the programme, the more news value there is to be had from any perception of its failure.

After four years of bucking the trend and riding high in both ratings and awards, it is inevitable that the line "EastEnders Doing Well" is not news - but "EastEnders In Trouble" most definitely is.

The most important rule in soap is to listen to your audience, that's why we're responding to the Mirror's research. Some of the people interviewed are our audience - the people who ultimately own the show. They watch week in, week out all year round, they vote for us in award ceremonies and I want to thank them for their continual support.

And despite the headlines, they have shown us they are still very much behind us by voting us best show at the British Soap Awards and with some great viewing figures as well.

It has always been true that whenever one soap is scheduled head to head against another then the audience is split in two and our only concern with this is that the viewers can miss out - though increased figures for our BBC Three repeat and Sunday omnibus suggest our audience are finding other ways round this.

Naturally, we will be studying the findings of the Mirror's survey carefully, we do consider all feedback - good and bad - from our viewers important, including comments in letters, emails, on the website and in our own public surveys. I'm always saddened when a viewer doesn't like a particular character or storyline. But no character is going to be everyone's favourite because much depends on the story they're appearing in at the time.

STILL, it's disappointing to read that a large number of viewers feel the show has been weaker over this past year - although to some extent I fear this was inevitable.

In a way, it has been a victim of its own success. The phenomenal popularity of the Kat and Alfie storyline was such that some viewers complained if these characters were not the centre of every storyline. A similar thing is happening with the tremendously successful "Shannis" storyline (the affair between Dennis and Sharon) - people love it so much, hundreds are writing in demanding to see more of it. I can say to the viewers right now - do not worry. "Shannis" is far from over.

But a soap cannot rely for its success purely on a small group of characters or a single storyline. That may be the road to short-term success but it is dangerous in the long-term. For instance, the Slaters were great for the show but in less than two years, the family's stories have been seriously disrupted by the illness of Michelle Ryan (Zoe), as well as the pregnancies of Kacey Ainsworth (Little Mo) and Jessie Wallace (Kat).

These are obviously not things we can control but such things are part of the real life of a soap and it's my responsibility to find ways of reducing the impact on the show.

I totally agree with the Mirror that the 1994/5 period was one of our greatest when, as well as the Mitchells ruling the roost, we also had a great family in the Jacksons, with David Wicks also linking them in to the Beales. That's the kind of thing we're ultimately aiming for now. To add to the Slaters, we introduced the Moons and the Watts - two other hugely successful families.

The transitional period was bound to be difficult but the fact that Mirror viewers vote so highly for the characters of Alfie Moon and Dennis Rickman is proof enough that these families are working. Nor will it stop there - there's a very exciting new family joining in the early autumn, who we think will liven things up considerably.

It's quite true, however, that the Ferreiras have not been as successful as we had hoped. I think in retrospect we made a mistake in giving their entrance such a fanfare as a New Asian Family. Viewers traditionally take a long time to adapt to anyone new - even the Slaters were universally hated for months after their first appearance - so it was wrong to emphasise what was different about this family from the start.

EVEN so, we had a terrific first story for them, which was to have culminated in a huge, action storyline to mark the exit of their father.

However, the sudden removal of actor Dalip Tahil, for reasons beyond our control, meant that the story had to be abandoned quickly - and 40 scripts rewritten on the spot. The result was the transplant story, which I have to admit did go on for far too long, especially when our biggest story in this period had also to be abandoned because of the pregnancy of Kacey Ainsworth. The writers and production team did their very best under these circumstances but I would be the first to admit the end result was not our finest hour.

I hope that viewers will not hold this against the Ferreira family and will be prepared to watch the next stage of their stories with an open mind. This is a very talented bunch of actors, who've had to put up with a lot of stick for problems which have not been of their making. Viewer response to their lighter material was very favourable and I am confident the Ferreiras will regain their popularity.

Meanwhile, the new family will bring a lot of fun and energy, and there are two other new female characters starting very soon, who will really set the sparks flying.

But viewers should not worry that in bringing in new characters we're going to be abandoning old favourites. Little Mo is returning soon and there's a terrific story with Peggy Mitchell. But I'm glad the viewers also care about the characters already with us - and especially that they agree with us in our love for Dot. Viewers will have already noticed she's been heavily featured this year.

Dot's just now starting a huge story of her own and over the next few weeks we'll be seeing some of the finest work June Brown has ever done. And that's saying something. So keep watching but also keep talking, join the debate at bbc.co.uk/eastenders as we want to keep hearing from you.

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Op vrijdag 30 juli 2004 21:30 schreef Nicole22 het volgende:
Top aflevering!
Gaat Chrissie er nu uit?

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Op zondag 1 augustus 2004 10:53 schreef milagro het volgende:
Dalip Tahil had verzuimd tijdig een nieuwe workpermit aan te vragen

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Op zondag 1 augustus 2004 18:26 schreef milagro het volgende:
wat een onwijs olijke baby

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PREGNANT EastEnders star Jessie Wallace walked her dogs with her ex-fiancé — after he begged her to take him back.

Jessie, 32 — TV’s Kat Slater — has told ex-copper Dave Morgan she might consider a reconciliation after he vowed to stand by her and their baby.



He slept at her home in Wanstead, East London, last Friday and the pair were snapped with her pets in a park.

The Sun told last month how six-months-pregnant Jessie ditched Dave, 29, after he failed to stop a pal selling lies about her to a paper.

The trainee fireman has since made regular visits to her home to help her out — but she has NOT yet put her engagement ring back on.

A pal said: “Jessie was left really disappointed by Dave, but he’s desperate to win her back.

“They’re not back together, but she’s said she’ll continue to see him because she just wants the best for her baby.”

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SORT IT AHT

EastEnders bosses warn stars to clean up their act

THE off-screen antics of its cast have proved far more entertaining than anything their beleaguered script writers have come up with of late.

So EastEnders bosses are taking decisive steps to make sure it's storylines we hear about - and not what the cast get up to when they're out of Albert Square.

We hear they've written to the stars ordering them to be discreet in public or face having restrictions placed on their movements.

Execs on the scandal-hit show, which has seen its ratings plummet this year, decided on the heavy-handed approach after one too many stories appeared about cast members' misbehaviour.

An on-set spy tells us: "The people who run the show felt like things were getting out of control and that certain people had to be reined in.

"So they decided to write letters spelling out exactly what they expect from their actors and reminding them that bringing the show into disrepute is a disciplinary matter.

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Op maandag 2 augustus 2004 21:57 schreef Reticulin het volgende:
hehehe Den die 9000 pond moet betalen voor het lenen van Porky's 2

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Op maandag 2 augustus 2004 23:26 schreef schatje het volgende:

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Ja, dat ging vooraf aan die schop .

SPOILER

Tina Baker has revealed that Sharon and Dennis will get back together but Just as they do Zoe will find out she is pregnant but she will not know if the father is Dennis or Den this is the e story that will make Sharon leave the Sq. it is all set to happen at xmas EE bosses are hoping it will top the Grant Tiff Simon story of 1997.

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Op dinsdag 3 augustus 2004 12:36 schreef schatje het volgende:

SPOILER

Tina Baker has revealed that Sharon and Dennis will get back together but Just as they do Zoe will find out she is pregnant but she will not know if the father is Dennis or Den this is the e story that will make Sharon leave the Sq. it is all set to happen at xmas EE bosses are hoping it will top the Grant Tiff Simon story of 1997.

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EASTENDER Jessie Wallace was in hospital last night after nearly losing her baby.

The pregnant 32-year-old, who plays Kat Slater, had emergency treatment after her blood pressure soared.

Jessie’s agent Lucy Brazier said last night: “It was touch and go.”

The baby scare is the latest shock in a nightmare month for the six-months pregnant actress, who has split with fiancé Dave Morgan, the baby’s father.

And she was shaken by a furious bust-up with co-star Barbara Windsor.

Both events were triggered by a pal of Dave’s selling a pack of lies about her to a downmarket Sunday newspaper.



The latest episode in Jessie’s real-life soap opera sees her in hospital after nearly losing her baby.

The 32-year-old star went for a check-up at the exclusive Portland Hospital in Central London on Friday.

Doctors were alarmed at her soaring blood pressure. She underwent emergency treatment and was ordered to stay for up to a week.

Medics have also told her to take at least a further two weeks off work.

It means EastEnders bosses will have to rewrite scripts involving Kat.

Jessie’s agent Lucy Brazier said last night: “Jessie was very scared on Friday. We were in a touch-and-go situation.”

Jessie is suing the paper that printed fireman Winston Rollock’s sick lies.

Barbara, 66, was fuming over his claims that Jessie called her an “effing cow”.

Lucy said: “This has been a nightmare month for Jessie and this is a direct result of all the stress she has been under.”

But she added: “Jessie is being monitored. She and the baby should be fine.”

Jessie, whose baby is due in November, was due to go on maternity leave early next month.

But she has been told to stop filming at once.

Her ex Dave, 29, arrived at the hospital yesterday with a bag for her.

An onlooker said: “He looked very concerned.”

An EastEnders spokeswoman said last night: “Jessie needs to rest. Both cast and crew send best wishes for a speedy recovery.”

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Op maandag 9 augustus 2004 11:13 schreef milagro het volgende:
thanks, schatje

SPOILER

In de Sun staat een foto van de nieuw familie
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Op maandag 9 augustus 2004 18:22 schreef schatje het volgende:

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SPOILER

In de Sun staat een foto van de nieuw familie
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Chrissie's life may be in pieces, but things are going great for Tracy-Ann

I wouldn't even go for a drink with Den

EastEnders star Tracy-Ann Oberman on fame and the truth about Leslie Grantham and those internet pics

This time last year Tracy-Ann Oberman was a little-known but respected actress earning a crust from theatre and radio work-and occasionally being mistaken for ER star Alex Kingston.

Since then, however, she's beaten both Joanna Lumley and Patsy Kensit for the role of Chrissie Watts in EastEnders, appeared on Mastermind and been nominated for a National Television Award. Oh, and she's just got engaged.

Of all these events, she says the most nerve-racking was Mastermind, in which she narrowly lost to Edwina Currie. 'I nearly threw up before my turn,' Tracy-Ann, 35, says. 'John Humphries is very intimidating. And that chair, that spotlight in your face... It was like my levels all over again.'

Still, being in the spotlight is something that she's had to get used to very quickly. Her arrival on EastEnders has propelled her to centre stage as the wife of Dirty Den, who's cheating on her with her business partner Kate Mitchell - an affair that's had hair-raising consequences.

Not only has Tracy-Ann joined starred with Michael Barrymore in Bob Martin, but says she never saw his dark sideshe says. 'The reality is that you work so hard on this show, sometimes doing 20 scenes a day, it's hard to get to know anyone on a personal level. But Leslie and I have always worked well together- one of the reasons I got this job was because we have chemistry-and he's always been incredibly professional. It's a shame that it all ended up overshadowing a great storyline for both of us.'

She strongly denies press reports at the time that the because she and Grantham were doing so many scenes together. But she admits that the initial period after the revelations was tense, to say the least. 'I felt sorry for the cast because a lot of people were hurt. But mostly everyone just felt very confused. A lot of people didn't know what was true, what he'd done, what he'd said. But at the end of the day, what you really want to just get the job done and, after the initial 24 hours of upset, it all blew over and it was back to business as usual.'

Nevertheless, it did teach her a few things about the ways of the tabloid press. 'Talk about an introduction!' she says. 'It was incredible to read things that I'd apparently said which in fact hadn't even thought. And it did make me realise that, actually, a lot of what you read isn't true.'

She's seen it happen before, though. Shortly after filming the second series of the comedy Bob Martin with Michael Barrymore, the body of Stuart Lubbock was found floating in his pool.'Michael was a joy to work with,' she recalls. 'So it was weird to open the papers and read all about someone you thought you knew. I never saw a dark side - and we were all very close on that show.'

She and Barrymore are no longer in touch. 'He needed to sort himself out and he simply withdrew,' she says. 'I think he's in New Zealand and, by all accounts, he's happier now. The whole thing was a tragedy for everyone, particularly Stuart Lubbock and his family, and I feel terribly sorry for them all. But fame does bring responsibility. And Michael wasn't anonymous.' She insists that name won't change her and she won't have to clean up her act to stay off the front pages.

'Let's face it, I'm hardly falling out of Chinawhite every night with Jordan,' she says. 'That's never been my lifestyle. Anyway, I'm always mistaken for Alex Kingston, so I have her reputation to think about!'

Changes are afoot, though. Not least marriage, something which - as recently as May- she claimed she'd never do. Her fiance Rob Cowan proposed a month later, to her surprise.'We've been seeing each other for a year and I think I mentioned it once and he mad it clear that we were never going to talk about it again. I didn't mind. Although I've tended to have long-term relationships, somehow the idea of marriage always seemed like a big door slamming shut on your life.' But then he whisked her off to Spain and popped the question. 'He hired a private yacht, got the champagne, everything,' she grins. 'It was all very J-Lo. I must admit I did have a moment of hesitation and a bit of an anxiety, attack. But that passed and I just thought: "Yes, I could spend the rest of my life with you."'

So is he anything like Den? Absolutely not,' she laughs. 'Den's not my type. I don't understand women who put up with that kind of man. I wouldn't even go for a drink with Den-the alarm bells would already be ringing. No, Rob's a lovely, lovely man. He's a music producer who works with disadvantaged kids, using music to show them there's an alternative to prison. I really respect him for what he does and he's a great friend.' So are kids of their own in the offing? 'Well, I said I'd never get married and look how that turned out! Right now I'm having so much fun playing Chrissie and Rob's just relieved to see me. Before so having children is now at least
technically a possibility!'

Plus, she still has to get used to fame -which hasn't been easy. 'It happened so fast,' she says.'It took two weeks between me auditioning and being offered the job. Then, two days after I first appeared on screen, I was waiting outside my house for Rob to pick me up when this car screeched to a halt and three people jumped out with their camera-phones, flashing away, asking for my autograph. It's very weird.'

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Op dinsdag 10 augustus 2004 23:56 schreef schatje het volgende:
Hmmz, toch weer minder de aflevering van een dinsdag .

Komt door Gus en zijn broer. Die twee trek ik echt niet .

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Op vrijdag 13 augustus 2004 22:00 schreef milagro het volgende:
wat heeft die Zoë toch aanzienlijke borsten ineens
Had ze die nu altijd al, of viel het me eerst gewoon niet op

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The 19-year-old actress, who plays feisty Vicki Fowler, will film her final scenes in October.

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Op dinsdag 17 augustus 2004 11:57 schreef Nicole22 het volgende:

Tijd voor die nieuwe familie, wanneer komen die er in?

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Op dinsdag 24 augustus 2004 13:06 schreef ruby het volgende:
Zo, effe een schopje hoor.

Best een leuke aflevering gisteren... Alleen Pauline, waarom is ze zo voorspelbaar irritant? Wanneer vliegt Sonya haar eens aan?

Hoelang zal het duren voordat Dennis weer z'n liefde aan Sharon verklaart?

Den Watts, er is geen land te bezeilen met die vent... En telkens als ik z'n kop zie, moet ik nog steeds denken aan dat webcam incident...

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Op donderdag 26 augustus 2004 22:45 schreef ruby het volgende:
Nou, hè hè...Dot gaat het eindelijk Jim eens vertellen.

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Op vrijdag 27 augustus 2004 11:13 schreef ruby het volgende:
Ze gaat Jim eindelijk vertellen dat ze kanker heeft. Ze wou het hem niet vertellen omdat ze hem geen verdriet wilde doen...

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Waarom heb je er zoveel gemist?

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Op zaterdag 28 augustus 2004 19:12 schreef ruby het volgende:
Ik heb wel andere dingen te doen.

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EASTENDERS EXPOSED: I had vodka days, wine days..and I smoked dope in the evenings

Lordan: my drink drugs shame

SACKED EastEnders star Elaine Lordan last night sensationally confessed she has been fighting a drink and drugs nightmare.

Speaking in full shocking detail for the first time since she left the soap last month, Elaine—TV's troubled Lynne Slater— admitted: "I even hid vodka in my dressing room to polish off in secret.

"Some of the cast begged me to stop. When I got home I'd just drink more—or a couple of bottles of wine. I never took drugs at work—but I admit I'd smoke cannabis at night."

Elaine, 37, who is five months pregnant, claims she fell victim to the stresses caused by TV stardom, a wild love life and a string of outrageous off-screen scrapes.

AS shamed EastEnders star Elaine Lordan last night confessed her booze and drugs binges she sobbed: "I drank to blot out my guilty feelings."

In an exclusive interview with the News of the World, Elaine admitted she hit the bottle after cheating on her live-in lover Gerard Rooney with married BBC technician Peter Manuel.

"I was drinking too much through shame over my affair," she said.

"But the booze started to control me and I was on the verge of being an alcoholic.

"I knew I'd hit rock bottom and had to get professional counselling."

Tormented Elaine, 37, who played Slater sister Lynne, revealed how she:

GUZZLED five glasses of wine in her studio lunchbreak,

STASHED bottles of vodka in her dressing room for secret drink sessions, and

SMOKED cannabis at night in a desperate bid to cheer herself up.

Feelings

Pregnant Elaine, whose £80,000-a-year contract with the soap ended last month, admitted: "I DID get drunk at work. I'd drink at the bar for lunch. I'd have either a wine lunch or a vodka lunch.

"On my vodka days I'd get through five or six glasses.

"On my wine days I'd polish off a bottle. Sometimes more.

"I could handle the vodka. But the wine made me more drunk and would give me away.

"I got so high it made me giggly, stupid and loud. I knew I was getting tipsy but I thought I could carry it off.

"I didn't forget my lines. But I must have slurred my words although I was so drunk I didn't know.

"Some cast members asked me to stop drinking. But I carried on to drown out my feelings.

"It made me happy at first. Then the high wore off and I'd get depressed. So I'd drink even more.

"I hid quarter bottles of vodka in my dressing room.

Empties

"I'd lock myself inside and drink them in secret. Then I used to take the empties home so no one ever found them.

"But I'd only get more and more depressed and end up crying my heart out. When I got home I'd drink another couple of bottles of wine or half a bottle of vodka.

"I'd hit an all-time low when producer John Yorke called me in.

"He told me, ‘You're drinking too much. We want to keep you. Now go away and sort yourself out.'

"I was embarrassed because I thought I was in control and getting away with it, when clearly my drinking was out of control.

"Other cast members go to the bar at lunchtime. You're certainly not told that you can't. But it was me who had the problem.

"Everyone at EastEnders knew it. So did my family and friends.

"The only good thing you can say is that I wasn't an aggressive drinker. I was either high or tearful.

"I never took drugs at work, though. But I admit I have had the odd joint of cannabis at night which made me giggly. Had I come clean about my affair from the outset, things would have been different. But I turned to drink so I didn't have to think of the hurt I was causing Pete's wife and children.

"The drinking was affecting my work. And when I looked in the mirror and saw my puffy eyes I told myself, ‘You are a very sad person.'

"When John Yorke told me I'd have to take time off the show to sort myself out, it was a big wake-up call. The booze was starting to take over and if I'd carried on I'd have become an alcoholic.

"I needed help. And fortunately I went to see a therapist. We didn't focus on the drinking. We focused on what was making me unhappy. Apart from the problems with Pete, my dad is suffering from the very cruel disease PSP, which Dudley Moore died of, and it's caused a lot of worry and stress.

"I found it very useful talking through my troubles and it helped me tackle the drink.

"I'm still seeing the therapist now but only have the odd glass of wine."

Elaine's relentless boozing has sparked a string of embarrassing off-screen dramas.

In July 2001 she was nicked for drink-driving after downing vodka at work. She admits she later lied about what happened that night because she did not want anybody to find out she was with lover Peter, who later left his wife and three children to be with her.

Then there was the bust-up at the Arsenal Premiership parade this summer, when Elaine, wearing a jester's hat, was accused of dropping beer on a baby and getting into a furious four-letter row with the tot's angry mum.

Talking about her shameful drink-driving arrest for the first time, she revealed: "I'd drunk four vodkas in my dressing room when Peter left to go home.

Stupid

"About 10 minutes later he phoned me in a bit of a state to say he'd crashed his car into a barrier and it was a write-off.

"I went, ‘Oh my God' and jumped in my car to help him.

"It was a very stupid thing to do but I knew he was hurt and I panicked. We'd just pushed his Renault off the road and were walking back to my Audi when a police car pulled over.

"Pete lied and said, ‘It's not my car. It's got nothing to do with me.' He then gave them a false name.

"But the police asked Pete to turn out his pockets. And they found a key that fitted the car. I just thought, ‘You idiot.'

"They breathalysed Pete and he came up clean. Then they breathalysed me and I was over the limit. I just felt, ‘Beam me up, Scotty!'

"I was arrested and had a very uncomfortable journey with a load of road cones in the back of the police car. I was taken to Borehamwood police station, where I was breathalysed again and locked up.

"I was hysterical and crying as they led me into the cell, which just had a bed and a stinky toilet.

"They took my belt off me in case I tried to hang myself.

Tears

"And as they banged the door shut, I suffered a panic attack and shouted out through the little hole to the desk sergeant, ‘Please, please let me out!'

"Half an hour later they allowed Pete into the cell.

"I broke down in tears as he gave me a huge hug. I had never been in a police cell in my life. It's not something I ever want to experience again. I couldn't believe I'd been so daft.

"I'm deeply ashamed I now have a criminal record for drink-driving and I've got to live with that. There's absolutely no excuse for it."

With her baby due in the New Year Elaine last night insisted: "I AM now in control of my drinking. It is NOT in control of me any more."

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Op dinsdag 7 september 2004 21:08 schreef schatje het volgende:
Ik vind de Millers wel geslaagd .

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Op donderdag 9 september 2004 09:50 schreef Reticulin het volgende:
ik vind 't helemaal niks die millers...zoals ik verwachtte echt te over the top...hou ik niet zo van...

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Op zondag 12 september 2004 12:06 schreef schatje het volgende:

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Hè bah, wat negatief weer .

Een nieuwe familie wordt in het begin altijd over de top neergezet. Bij de Slaters was ook het geval .

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Op zondag 12 september 2004 22:12 schreef Reticulin het volgende:

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najah zeg, ben bijna nooit negatief, alleen nu wel, mag ik ook 's?

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Op maandag 13 september 2004 18:18 schreef schatje het volgende:

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Ja, je hebt gelijk. Sorry voor mijn overtrokken reactie.

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Op donderdag 16 september 2004 23:57 schreef Reticulin het volgende:
Was Minty toch nog te laat

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Op donderdag 16 september 2004 23:59 schreef APK het volgende:

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Ja, wat een humor weer, dat ongeluk tegen het busje van die aso's.

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Op vrijdag 17 september 2004 00:15 schreef Reticulin het volgende:

Nou ontzettend

maar goed, kan nog wel leuk worden, als ma mitchell zich tegen haar schoonzoon keert...en straks andy's zwager (zwagers hoop ik nog steeds), hoop op veel dood en verderf

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Op vrijdag 17 september 2004 00:49 schreef ruby het volgende:
Waar is Dan eigenlijk?

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En Peggy Mitchell, het blijft een irritant mens. Ze doet me denken aan iemand die ik in real life gekend heb en daar was ik ook niet zo kapot van.

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Op vrijdag 17 september 2004 00:53 schreef APK het volgende:

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Ik hoop het maar, momenteel vind ik het te genant voor woorden.
Gelukkig is Peggy terug, die is idd lekker irritant.

Vroegah, toen nam ik nog wel eens een aflevering op tape op, nu nooit meer.

Ben wel benieuwd wie dit jaar dood gaat tijdens de kerstafleveringen.

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Op vrijdag 17 september 2004 00:56 schreef Reticulin het volgende:

die is vertrokken naar spanje

hij had chrissy gebeld om een en ander uit te praten, wat erin eindigde dat chrissy op de square bleef en den in chrissy's taxi stapte om naar spanje te verdwijnen

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Op vrijdag 17 september 2004 00:59 schreef Reticulin het volgende:

mooiste dood in eastenders is w.m.b. nog altijd die van steve owen, dat was echt spannend toen

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Op vrijdag 17 september 2004 01:00 schreef APK het volgende:

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Is hij tijdelijk uit de serie geschreven omdat hij achter die webcam had zitten te rukken en iedereen beledigd had misschien

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Op vrijdag 17 september 2004 01:15 schreef Reticulin het volgende:

steve owen's dood was trouwens niet met kerst geloof ik

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Op vrijdag 17 september 2004 01:19 schreef APK het volgende:

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Dat dacht ik ook al, ik kan mij nog rondvliegende bankbiljetten herinneren.

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Op vrijdag 17 september 2004 00:49 schreef ruby het volgende:
Waar is Den eigenlijk?

En Peggy Mitchell, het blijft een irritant mens. Ze doet me denken aan iemand die ik in real life gekend heb en daar was ik ook niet zo kapot van.

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Op vrijdag 17 september 2004 13:28 schreef ruby het volgende:
Blijft die Peggy nou eigenlijk of is ze alleen voor de bruiloft van Sam naar de Square gekomen? Persoonlijk mag ze van mij wegblijven want ze is tenenkrommend. Maar ja, tenenkrommende tv kan ook leuk zijn.

Volgens mij komen Dennis en Sharon uiteindelijk wel weer bijelkaar.

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Ik las in een tijdschrift dat de kerstaflevering van 2004 zal draaien rond....Zoe. Zoe blijkt zwanger! Maar van wie? Het zou van Dennis kunnen zijn maar ook van Den, want daar gaat ze binnenkort mee naar bed

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Op vrijdag 17 september 2004 22:01 schreef schatje het volgende:
Toch is Peggy wel leuk hoor. Alleen wel met mate .

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Op vrijdag 17 september 2004 20:16 schreef Nicole22 het volgende:
Okee, ik zal het proberen Thanks, Schatje.

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Ik las in een tijdschrift dat de kerstaflevering van 2004 zal draaien rond....Zoe. Zoe blijkt zwanger! Maar van wie? Het zou van Dennis kunnen zijn maar ook van Den, want daar gaat ze binnenkort mee naar bed

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Op dinsdag 21 september 2004 00:08 schreef ruby het volgende:
Cat is weg...is dat nou voorgoed?

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Ik vind die stalker van Martin op een gremlin lijken. Wat is haar functie in het geheel behalve irritant zijn?

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Berridge quits 'EastEnders'

Louise Berridge has quit as executive producer of BBC soap EastEnders.

"I've loved every minute of my time on EastEnders," said Berridge, "but felt it the right time to move on to new challenges."

Her decision comes amid severe criticism of the soap's direction and a slump in ratings. In May, the BBC's continuing drama chief Mal Young was forced to issue a statement in support of Berridge, saying that she'd stay despite previous calls for her resignation.

Today, Young said: "This must be the toughest programme-making role on British TV. Louise has done a superb job, overseeing some of the most talked about telly moments of the last three years. It's a relentless job, both as manager and lead creative of over 200 hours of prime time drama, in a very public spotlight.

"There are not many people talented or resilient enough to handle this job, and Louise has proved herself one of the few. Without Louise, there'd be no Alfie Moon, no Dennis Watts.

"At a time of all channels losing audience share, she has helped EastEnders keep its share stable year on year. We're sorry to see her leave her current position, but pleased that she's staying on in BBC drama, as she will now be involved in a major new drama project."

Holby City executive producer Kathleen Hutchison will take over Berridge's position at the soap.

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Op woensdag 22 september 2004 18:34 schreef ruby het volgende:
Hoewel de het de laatste tijd wel oké is.

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Op woensdag 22 september 2004 18:40 schreef APK het volgende:

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Ja, die barkeeper die met dat Ferrera meisje aan het flirten was gisteren is ook echt een aanwinst.

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Op donderdag 23 september 2004 22:36 schreef ruby het volgende:
Die stalker van Martin....ik haaaaaaaaaaat 'r.

Dus EE weet wel overtuigend een psychopaat neer te zetten met die grote slabek van 'r.

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Op donderdag 23 september 2004 23:51 schreef ruby het volgende:
Ik dacht even dat ze Sonia voor de auto wilde gooien...

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Op vrijdag 24 september 2004 13:16 schreef Suko het volgende:
Ah thanks, niet dat Garry zo geliefd is bij mij maar hij was zomaar weg. Zal mij benieuwen of Phil echt terug komt. Andy moet echt weg, misschien dat Sam door het lint gaat! Grant (Ross Kemp) hoopte ik op maar dat is inmiddels niet meer aan de orde. Ik hoorde hem laatst als commentator in een BBC-documantaire, wat een mooie stem heeft hij eigenlijk! Zou het een teken zijn dat hij om werk verlegen zit...?

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Op vrijdag 24 september 2004 19:58 schreef kyra1974 het volgende:
dat van die minging stalker doen ze juist goed.. nu wordt ze vriendinnen met sonja en dan kan ze helmaal goed martin stalken....
het is wel erg saai ik mis emmerdale of hollyoakes

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Fourteen 'EastEnders' stars to be axed?

Fourteen EastEnders stars are to be axed as part of Kathleen Hutchinson's plan to save the show, according to The Mirror.

Hutchinson has taken over Louise Berridge's position of executive producer for the show, following Berridge's decision to quit.

The newspaper claims that Hutchinson is planning to get rid of Wendy Richards (Pauline Fowler) and Leslie Grantham, who plays Dirty Den.

Other characters expected to be axed include most of the Ferreira family, including Ronny (Ray Panthaki), Adi (Ameet Chana), Ash (Raji James) and Kareena (Pooja Shah).

Tariq Larousi (Nabil Elouahabi), and Sasha Perkins (Jemma Walker) could also be facing the boot, joining Derek Harkinson (Ian Lavender), gangster Andy Hunter (Michael Higgs), and Phil Mitchell's wife Kate (Jill Halfpenny).

Rick "Minty" Peterson (Cliff Parisi), Jane Collins (Laurie Brett) and Nana Moon (Hilda Braid) will also be cleared out.

An insider on the show revealed, "There are a lot of worried faces around here at the moment.

"Everyone's feeling extremely vulnerable and paranoid that they're about to get the chop. The atmosphere's very tense."

However, old favourites Bianca Butcher (Patsy Palmer) and Kathy Mitchell (Gillian Taylforth) could soon be making a return to the show.

Hutchinson apparently wants to turn around the show's fortunes by Christmas.

The insider added, "She's determined to throw out anything she hates and have her ideas and storylines on screen by then.

"She has a reputation as being very good at getting her way.

"The writers and schedulers are gearing up for a lot more work very soon."

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Op zondag 26 september 2004 23:51 schreef GotC het volgende:
*al 6 jaar trouwe Eastenders kijker* gouwe serie!
en ik kan die stalker van martin niet uistaan!! Sjeez hoe bedoel je irritant! maar evengoed dom van martin om met dr naar huis te gaan -_-

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Op dinsdag 28 september 2004 00:53 schreef schatje het volgende:
Welkom in deze reeks .

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The main Christmas storyline involving Zoe Slater has been scrapped.
Zoe, played by actress Michelle Ryan, was due to fall pregnant with a baby by Dennis Rickman (Nigel Harman). Kathleen — already dubbed Hutch the Hatchet — is now expected to start a cast clearout by chopping the Ferreira family.

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Op dinsdag 28 september 2004 12:17 schreef Suko het volgende:
Jeetje, zal mij dan benieuwen wat er dan voor in de plaats komt! Die 2 jonge Millertjes moeten echt een make-over krijgen qua rollen want vet irritant vind ik ze wel. Een mooie jaloerse Sharon gisteravond, moet verder worden ontwikkeld maar ja, bloody shame dat ze weggaat.

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Op dinsdag 28 september 2004 12:17 schreef Suko het volgende:

Een mooie jaloerse Sharon gisteravond, moet verder worden ontwikkeld maar ja, bloody shame dat ze weggaat.

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Op dinsdag 28 september 2004 22:07 schreef Reticulin het volgende:
wanneer gaat sharon dan?

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September 26, 2004
Letitia Dean will be starring as the Princess in the Birmingham Hippodrome's Christmas production, Jack & The Beanstalk. It will run from the 21st of December to mid January. This obviously means that Sharon Watts shall disappear from television screens for a while, but it doesn't mean Letitia is leaving. When she returned to Eastenders in 2001, a special clause was written into her £150,000 contract allowing her time off during the pantomime season should she need it.

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Op woensdag 29 september 2004 15:40 schreef schatje het volgende:
Op tvtome staat weer het volgende:
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Op woensdag 29 september 2004 17:01 schreef Suko het volgende:

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Nou ja, je kan er op wachten dat ze een keer tegen de lamp loopt, of zoiets.

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Op donderdag 30 september 2004 02:01 schreef APK het volgende:
Ik vind Sharon wel okay voor EE, maar ik vind haar niet een geweldige actrice.
Wat kan ze nog meer buiten EE en panto

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Op vrijdag 1 oktober 2004 18:47 schreef ruby het volgende:
Kunnen ze die twee kutkinderen van die nieuwe familie per heden op laten zouten? Ik vind ze heel irritant namelijk en vooral niet grappig.

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New BBC soap to rival Corrie?



The BBC are planning a new Northern soap to rival Coronation Street, according to The Sun today.

The newspaper claims that the new soap could even replace EastEnders if it is successful.

A source told the newspaper, "We’re looking for a new soap based in the North.

"It won’t be launched with a view to immediately replace EastEnders, but if it’s a success who knows what will happen?"

The BBC apparently came up with the idea as plans were announced to relocate 1000 employees to Manchester.

"We need something really big 52 weeks a year," the BBC's drama boss, Jane Tranter, explained.

"I think the most important thing is to give a voice to an area. The way to do that is to film that area. Manchester boasts really fantastic writers, on-screen talent and locations.

"About four years ago we hadn’t got much in the North. Then we knocked on the door and started to do Linda Green and Cutting It.

"Now we plan to truly open the door."

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'EastEnders' set for 'Sopranos'-style thugs?

A new breed of Sopranos-style gangsters are making their way to Albert Square, according to The Sun today.

The newspaper claims that the introduction of yet more cockney hardmen is the brainchild of new exec producer Kathleen Hutchison, who wants to better reflect "the real East End."

A source said: "Baddies like Andy Hunter look like pussycats compared to real-life ones who rule the East End. She wants to make them more scary."

If true, the move is a risky one for Hutchison: one of the key criticisms of the soap in recent months has been - somewhat ironically - its tendency towards "unrealistic" gangster storylines.

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'EastEnders' star gets nightclub ban

EastEnders star Ray Panthaki has been banned from any further nightclub appearances after being attacked outside an Essex nightclub at the end of August, according to The People today.

Panthaki, who plays Ronny Ferreira on the show, can apparently make up to £60,000 a year by turning up at nightclubs to greet fans.

However, the soap's new executive producer, Kathleen Hutchinson, has told Panthaki not to turn up for any more club appearances.

Hutchinson is apparently concerned over the star's safety, and the disruption to filming which resulted from the attack.

Ray was left with a gash above his right eye after being attacked with a broken bottle outside the nightclub.

A source told the newspaper, "EastEnders had to re-arrange shooting for weeks because of the cut. You've got to feel sorry for him though. He was the innocent victim and now it's going to cost him around £60,000 a year."

Rumours suggest that the unpopular Ferreira family will be axed from the show once Hutchinson takes over Louise Berridge's role as executive producer.

The source added, "Ray knows he can't cut up rough over the ban as he's in the firing line."

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Barbara Windsor hit by heart scare

EastEnders star Barbara Windsor has been hit by a heart scare, but has vowed to return to the BBC soap next year as planned.

The People reports today that Barbara has had tests for lipids - including cholesterol, which can clog artery walls, increasing the risk of heart trouble.

A source revealed, "Now she is waiting for the results. Like anyone she is anxious because anything to do with the heart can be serious.

"But she will cope and is confident that everything will be fine."

The source added, "Everyone is telling her not to get stressed until they know the results of the test. Babs won't let these things get her down and will still be going back to work in EastEnders on time."

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Young EastEnders actor Natalie Cassidy - better known as Sonia Fowler - has spent £4,000 on a boob job, the Sun reports today.
The 21-year-old stayed overnight at North London's Highgate Hospital yesterday for an operation to enhance her 36D chest.
"I feel groggy from the operation but I’m fine," Cassidy told the newspaper afterwards. "I just need some time to recover now. But thanks to The Sun for your support."

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Op maandag 4 oktober 2004 22:50 schreef Reticulin het volgende:
ik vind realistische gangsters in eastenders een heel goed plan! en dan idd niet zo'n arrogant kwalletje als andy, maar echt tuig

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Cops hunt raider on Enders set

RATTLED EastEnders chiefs have ordered a probe after a thief burgled dressing rooms while the soap was being filmed.

Money, credit cards and car keys were stolen.

Police were alerted and BBC investigators fear the raid could be an inside job at the set in Elstree, Herts.

A Beeb insider said: “Somebody broke into the EastEnders cast dressing rooms and rifled through personal belongings while they were filming.

“A wallet and car keys were taken. It is believed the thief posed as a workman.”

An EastEnders spokeswoman confirmed: “There were some thefts which are currently being investigated by the BBC.”

She denied rumours that the burglar confronted Leslie Grantham, 57, who plays Den Watts, as he waited in his dressing room between scenes.

The theft is the second to hit the show in two months. Scripts, including top secret Christmas plots, were stolen from an executive in August.

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Another piece of news to add to the woes of EastEnders bosses is that its flame-haired former star, Patsy Palmer, has turned down the chance to return to the soap that made her famous.



The show's producers were hoping that Patsy, 32, would jump at the chance to bring Bianca back to Walford. But unfortunately, it seems Patsy has caught the theatre bug, after her success in the West End play We Happy Few, which was met with great acclaim.

Patsy said, "EastEnders is a great job and I'll always be grateful, but I have three children. I like theatre because you work nights, so I can be with the kids more."

Her decision will be a blow for bosses on the soap, who want to bring back some of the show's more popular characters to boost flagging ratings.

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EastEnders had been lurching from crisis to crisis lately, but with the arrival of a feisty ne Slater girl, things could be looking up', Stacey Slater, played by 16-year old Lacey Turner is the cousin of Ka1 Lynne, Zoe and Little Mo, and within days of turning up in the Square, she tries to seduce Lynne's husband, Garry. "I think people will love to hate her like they did Janine," says Lacey.



Another addition to the Slater family could be just the boost hat the troubled soap needs. Last month, the ratings were down to just 6.2 million and new boss Kathleen Hutchison is tackling the situation head on. She's scrapped the main Christmas storyline, which would have seen Zoe fall pregnant with Dennis Rickman's baby, and she's poised to wield the dreaded axe on several characters. Tipped for the chop are Kate Mitchell, Andy Hunter and, unsurprisingly, most of the Ferreira family.

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"I think people will love to hate her like they did Janine,"

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Op dinsdag 12 oktober 2004 21:22 schreef J_TM het volgende:
Sarah zegt dan wel dat ze weggaat, maar we weten allemaal dat het ergste nog moet komen.