Eastenders General News Thread

Tamzin Outhwaite has revealed that she would love to see a musical episode of EastEnders.

The actress bowed out of her role as Melanie Owen in 2002 but still has not ruled out a return to Albert Square.

She told the Daily Star that would not view going back as a "bad thing".

"I like the idea of going back sometimes," she said. "But I don’t know how Mel could though. I mean, she doesn't know anyone apart from Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt)!"

The actress, who is currently appearing as judge on Channel 5's Glee-inspired reality show Don't Stop Believing, admitted that she wants the BBC soap to do a musical episode.

"When I was in Hotel Babylon, they promised me they’d do one but it never happened. I think they missed a trick," she said.

"Now Glee is so popular, maybe it will happen. It would be amazing."

"Can you imagine Mel bursting into song in Albert Square with Ian?" she joked.

S EastEnders' buxom Cheryl Fergison the only soap star visible on Google Earth?

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You've been framed ... Cheryl Fergison

The street view website caught the larger than life actress, who plays bubbly Heather Trott, signing autographs for young fans in Sidcup, Kent.

Cheryl, 46, has been a busy girl online.

She recently revealed that she is to marry Moroccan toyboy Yassin Al-Jermoni, 25, after they met on a social networking site.

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In one poignant scene Kara, whose sister Hannah starred in Hollyoaks, is shown having difficulty reading in a bookshop.
Asked her reading age she replies: "About 12." BBC3's Danny Cohen said: "It's really brave of Kara to do this film. It's an issue not many people are comfortable talking about."
The programme, Kara Tointon - Don't Call Me Stupid, forms part of a challenging autumn series.


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Good for her!! My son is dyslexic and I feel very strongly about this.

Albert Square is a long way from the Hollywood Hills, but Audrina Patridge has asked us to help her get there.

The Hills star said she would love a cameo on the soap.

She told us: "I really want to get into acting.

"Do you think you girls could help me get a job? I'd love to be in EastEnders. I love English TV shows."

She is over here to promote the Hills finale, which is on MTV on Sunday August 15. So we took the party girl out to Mahiki nightclub.

The boys were swarming all over her but Audrina wasn't interested.

She said: "I'm dating an Australian guy called Corey Bohan at the moment and it's the best it has ever been."

Hannah Waterman has dismissed claims that she split from her husband Ricky Groves because she had lost weight.

The former EastEnders actress lost nearly three stone after seeing unflattering photographs of herself last year. She soon separated from Groves amid suggestions that she thought she was too good for him.

Waterman told The Mirror: "The idea we split up and our marriage broke down just because I lost a couple of stone is ridiculous. There’s always going to be more than one reason why a couple splits up, but those reasons are between us. Ricky knows what happened, and so do I. To think I lost weight, I turned horrible, I dumped my husband, is stupid."

She also admitted that she wouldn't return to her previous weight, saying: “No. Absolutely not. My doctors told me I was unhealthy and that my weight meant I was at risk of heart disease and diabetes. I don’t think you should compromise your health for anyone."

Speaking of living the single life, she said: "Right now, I’m rediscovering my independence. I've never set up home on my own before so it’s exciting and I feel like I’m moving forward. I go off to work, come home and cook my own tea, and it feels easy. I think that’s a lifestyle I’m better suited to really - I like my work a lot. Maybe that was my problem all along.

"I definitely won’t be getting married again. It’s not in my make-up and the whole institution of marriage just doesn’t appeal to me. It’s not just a piece of paper, it’s a legal contract. You go in thinking it won’t be that different to living with someone, but it is.

"On the one hand the romantic notion of marriage is nice, and sometimes you do it with the idea you’ll have children and all that, but we didn’t. That’s sad but in a way it’s better we didn’t have kids because they’d have been stuck in the middle of it."

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Actress Barbara Windsor has been given the freedom of the City of London.

The 72-year-old was given the honour for her 60 years in showbusiness, at a ceremony on Wednesday.

She said: "This is a wonderful moment; the freedom to the best city in the world, and the one I was born in and love and adore."

There are no privileges to becoming freeman but it is given to celebrate a significant achievement or major contribution to London life.

Deputy Robin Sherlock, Chief Commoner of the City of London Corporation, said: "Whether making us laugh in the Carry On films or playing tense scenes in EastEnders, Barbara has won her way into our hearts and is one of this country's best loved actresses."

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Windsor has made many film, stage and television appearances but she is best known for the Carry On films and playing Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders. She is due to leave the programme after 16 years.

She has also received BBC Television Personality of the Year, best actress and lifetime achievement awards and was awarded an MBE in 2000.

The Freedom of the City of London is believed to have begun in 1237 and enabled recipients to carry out their trade.

Today, people are nominated, or apply for, the freedom because it offers them a link to the historic City of London and one of its ancient traditions.

However, many of the so-called traditional privileges associated with the freedom, such as driving sheep over London Bridge, being hanged with a silken rope, or being drunk and disorderly in the City of London without fear of arrest, no longer exist.


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Stone the crows, watta bleedin liberty, cor luvaduck, would you Adam and Eve it that someone has decided that the Poison Dwarf should be made a Freeman of The City of London. They must have been Brahams and Liszt to give it to an Orse and Cart who appears in a second rate Faith and Hope. They must have been on the Mahatma Ghandi. They should send for the Sweeny Todd as obviously they are having a Giraffe.

Famous Honorary freemen include The Queen, Princess Diana, Nelson Mandela, Florence Nightingale, General Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill and I hardly think Ms Windsor compares with any of them

EastEnders star Charlie Brooks has said that her character Janine Butcher is genuinely in love with on-off boyfriend Ryan Malloy.

Spoiler:

In next week's episodes of the BBC soap, Janine stuns Ryan by asking him to marry her - a surprise move which leaves other Walford residents questioning her intentions.

However, speaking to Inside Soap, Brooks commented: "The idea of getting hitched again is a bit daunting for Janine, but I think that deep down she really only wants to be with Ryan.

"It's easy to assume that Janine is playing games or using him for sex, but I reckon she actually is in love with him. And Ryan clearly adores her too, so he may be the man to tame her wild ways."

However, Brooks also hinted that there could be trouble ahead for the couple if Janine ever discovers that Ryan is the father of Stacey Branning's baby daughter Lily.

She said: "Janine will be absolutely destroyed when she finds out. She wants Ryan all to herself, and the idea of a baby snatching his attention away would be devastating. All she needs is to be loved."