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A writer and producer on EastEnders has claimed that the source of all of the soap's storylines can be found in the Bible.
Jennifer Robins is a former series producer and current storyliner on the show, and made the comments to an audience of media executives and religious leaders at the BBC's 'Re:Think' conference.
The Telegraph reports that Robins told the crowd: "The prototype of every EastEnders story can be traced back to one source: David and Goliath, Daniel in the Lions' Den, Samson and Delilah, Sodom and Gomorrah, the fall, all the Bible stories."
She also argued that "EastEnders slays all before it when it is moral to its core", before continuing: "Like the parables it offers hope and a morality where the good are rewarded and the bad punished either by death, rapid exit or karmically bound forever on a wheel of fire.
"Despite the twists and turns of the plotlines all our conclusions are essentially moral: good triumphs, evils is punished and the value of human life is asserted."
She cited storylines involving paedophila, assisted suicide and sham marriages as evidence that the soap was essentially a "morality play", and dismissed the idea that the programme had been tawdry, sensationalist and immoral.
Robins added that all plotlines were subject to intense research and consultation, particularly those involving religion.
When a theologian brought up the storyline of Lucas Johnson, an insane pastor who strangled his love rival, and pointedly asked how it fit into Robins's "Judeo-Christian discourse", she replied that the storyline was "before her time", and admitted that in 27 years of broadcasting there have been some "howlers".
The 'Re:Think' conference was held in Salford and organised by the team behind programmes such as Songs of Praise. Other guest speakers this year included Speakers included BBC journalist Jeremy Bowen, the Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and professor Richard Dawkins.
EastEnders actor has Adam Woodyatt has revealed that he is a fan of Bollywood celebrity Shah Rukh Khan. WHO???? :searchme:
The soap star met Khan earlier this week at 'An Evening With Shah Rukh Khan' in Manchester.
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"Meeting @iamsrk later, wonder if he fancies playing in a Charity Football Match," Woodyatt - who is organising a series of celebrity matches - told his Twitter followers.
Woodyatt later posted an image of himself with the Indian actor.
Other stars attending the SRK event included England cricketer Sajid Mahmood and former Arsenal and Everton footballer Kevin Campbell.
Khan is reported to have revealed how much he loves the city and that he is a fan of Manchester United.
The gala dinner took place on September 20.
I love love love love love love BOLLYWOOD...and SRK,,,i travel with at least 8 movies when I am in America,,
Michelle Ryan has admitted that she does not feel tempted to return to EastEnders in the near future.
The Zoe Slater actress revealed that she has recently started watching Friday's late-night omnibuses while preparing for her new theatre role.
"I hadn't watched it for years before this tour for Cabaret," Ryan told Metro.
"I've been staying in B&Bs, and I've found myself watching the omnibus a couple of times recently."
Ryan conceded that viewing the BBC soap has not persuaded her to make a comeback.
"There's something comforting about it, but it didn't rekindle any desire in me to go back," the 28-year-old added.
The Cockneys vs Zombies star, whose time on EastEnders lasted five years between 2000 and 2005, said earlier this year that she has become "nostalgic" about the Albert Square serial.
Her character Zoe left Walford after her fake pregnancy scheme with 'Dirty' Den (Leslie Grantham) - an attempt to keep her relationship going with boyfriend Dennis (Nigel Harman) - became wider knowledge, and Chrissie (Tracy-Ann Oberman) tried to implicate Zoe in Den's murder before she left the Square.
Steve McFadden has strongly hinted that he intends to stick with EastEnders for a long time.
The 53-year-old actor, who has been a cast member on the show since 1990, praised writers for refreshing his character Phil Mitchell with exciting storylines.
McFadden told Kent News: "EastEnders keeps me so busy - that is where I'm at and I can't see that changing too soon."
The star - promoting his Aladdin pantomime role - continued: "There's nothing that has quite got the punch of an EastEnders script.
"I think I have a few big ones coming up, but I don't know what they are. I just have them as they come each week.
"I don't really look into the future because they keep me well occupied and weaved in stories, so I don't poke around. I just open the scripts, roll my sleeves up and crack into it when it happens."
McFadden will return to the forefront of the Albert Square soap when his alter ego proposes to ex Sharon on New Year's Day.
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Gillian Taylforth has revealed that EastEnders bosses wanted her to return to the soap.
The Celebrity Big Brother star, who left the house on Friday (January 18), was told by one producer that they regard killing off Kathy Beale six years ago as the biggest mistake in the show's history.
Kathy was last seen on-screen in 2000, but died in an off-screen car crash in 2006.
"I was at an EastEnders party [in 2011] and I had a scriptwriter saying they wanted me to go back," Taylforth told the Daily Star Sunday.
"They were asking if I could think of any way Kathy could return even though she's been killed off. They said they'd thought of loads of ideas about how it could work but wanted my input.
"They said because viewers didn't see me die that there are ways round it. Another idea I heard was that Kathy could have a twin.
"Even one of the executive *producers John Yorke told me that killing off Kathy was the biggest mistake they've ever made."
She added: "If the EastEnders storyline was good and I could make a dramatic return I would go for it. I still get fans calling me Kathy all the time. It's actually really nice."
A show spokesman explained that while Kathy was "a great character", there are *currently no plans to bring her back in the immediate future.
Death is not the end of a character in EE. She can always return with some daft excuse of a storyline
EastEnders star Laila Morse has spoken for the first time about her turmoil with her son.
The Mo Harris actress reveals in her new autobiography, being serialised this week in The Mirror, that she has funded Gerry's long-time drug addiction in the past.
"When he got on to heroin he turned to crime to feed his habit, but I visited him in prison," she writes. "And when he was out I'd drive him to his dealers and give him money for his next fix because I couldn't see him in agony.
"God, the things I've done. I hated it, hated it! But I did it often, and probably still would, because the alternative is getting a knock on the door to say my boy's been nicked again... or he's dead from a dodgy deal.
"I still couldn't stop his descent into self-destruction though. I was often consumed by guilt - thinking it had to be my fault Gerry had gone off the rails."
The 67-year-old added: "But I was very young and naive when I had him and, yes, I was so madly in love that, too often, I put my relationship first. It's too late for regrets now but I can't help feeling that I didn't do enough for my children.
"If I had my life to live over again I'd do things differently, be a better mother."
Just A Mo: My Story by Laila Morse will be released in book stores on January 31.
EastEnders star Laila Morse has admitted that she was "bloody petrified" with nerves when she first joined the soap.
The actress has been playing the role of Mo Harris since 2000 and opens up about Albert Square life in her new autobiography Just A Mo, which is being serialised in The Mirror this week.
Reflecting on her early days at EastEnders, Morse wrote: "My first scene was with Pam St Clement, who played Pat Butcher, but my stomach was flipping over like a live kipper and it passed in a haze. A couple of weeks later, a TV critic said I acted like a lump of cardboard. I daresay he was right! I was bloody petrified.
"It was three years before I started to feel comfortable on set. But I made a load of new friends - Derek Martin, Gillian Wright, Laurie Brett, Shane Richie and Jessie Wallace.
"June Brown, who plays Dot, is lovely. You can't get a word in - she chats like there's no tomorrow - but she's a great storyteller. And I loved Wendy Richard."
However, the 67-year-old added that while she still "loves" EastEnders and "really enjoys" playing Mo, she barely knows many of her newer co-stars.
She said: "I keep to myself much more than I used to. I've seen so many people go, and a lot of us don't know each other. I preferred it when I was first there.
"But I blame the smoking ban stopping us meeting for a fag in the green room! We were all friends and gelled back then. Now we're in our individual rooms like pigeonholes. When it's time to go on set, you just get a phone call to your room. Often we only come out when we're going on set or for something to drink."
Just A Mo: My Story by Laila Morse will be released on January 31.