Eastenders General News Thread

[Perdita]

EASTENDERS star Cliff Parisi is expecting a baby with a BBC production assistant he met just three months ago.

Cliff, 48, who plays loveable garage mechanic Minty Peterson, is also getting married to pretty Tara Wyer after a whirlwind romance.

The pair met on the set of BBC1 show Let's Dance, where Cliff strutted his stuff for Comic Relief earlier this year.

Pals say the actor and the production assistant immediately hit it off.

A friend said: "They are so happy - Cliff wasted no time in getting down on one knee to pop the question."

Tara has moved in with the actor at his home in Highgate, North London, and they plan to wed later this year.

There must be something in the water at the BBC1 soap. Cliff's co-star Steve McFadden, 50, who plays Phil Mitchell, had a baby girl with his new partner last month.

And Jo Joyner, 31, who plays Tanya Branning, revealed she is to give birth to TWINS.

Bizarrely, dad-to-be Cliff's character Minty is one of the names in the frame to be revealed as the father of Heather Trott's baby.

It comes after Coronation Street stars Simon Gregson and Samia Smith also announced they are expecting babies later this year.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ice-Minty.html

[Chloe O'brien]

I wonder if Steve real baby will appear as baby Pickle when Heather gives birth.

[di marco]

I wonder if Steve real baby will appear as baby Pickle when Heather gives birth.

wont the baby be a bit too old though by then?

[tammyy2j]

Former 'EastEnders' star Michelle Collins has said that she has auditioned for a part in 'Desperate Housewives'.


The actress, who played the role of Cindy Beale in the soap revealed the news on BBC One's 'Breakfast'.


Collins said: "I've got an American visa now so I've spent quite a bit of time there."


Advertisement"I went to a casting for Desperate Housewives, but I haven't got it yet," she said.


"As I've told people about it, they're amazed and have been telling me that someone like Cindy from 'EastEnders' would be great for that show. I have to remind them I'm not Cindy, I'm Michelle."


"I'm just doing what a lot of British actors are doing there at the moment - the 'LA thing'. I'd like to think there's been interest in me."


"But I'm a single parent so obviously that would be my biggest consideration before going for anything in America."

[sindydoll]

EASTENDERS star Cliff Parisi is expecting a baby with a BBC production assistant he met just three months ago.

Cliff, 48, who plays loveable garage mechanic Minty Peterson, is also getting married to pretty Tara Wyer after a whirlwind romance.

The pair met on the set of BBC1 show Let's Dance, where Cliff strutted his stuff for Comic Relief earlier this year.

Pals say the actor and the production assistant immediately hit it off.

A friend said: "They are so happy - Cliff wasted no time in getting down on one knee to pop the question."

Tara has moved in with the actor at his home in Highgate, North London, and they plan to wed later this year.

There must be something in the water at the BBC1 soap. Cliff's co-star Steve McFadden, 50, who plays Phil Mitchell, had a baby girl with his new partner last month.

And Jo Joyner, 31, who plays Tanya Branning, revealed she is to give birth to TWINS.

Bizarrely, dad-to-be Cliff's character Minty is one of the names in the frame to be revealed as the father of Heather Trott's baby.

It comes after Coronation Street stars Simon Gregson and Samia Smith also announced they are expecting babies later this year.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ice-Minty.html

i think sometimes you can be too old to become parents! i feel to old now and im 39

[Perdita]

EastEnders star Kara Tointon has insisted that she is happy to "move on" from Walford.

The 25-year-old actress recently filmed her final scenes as Dawn Swann after being axed from the BBC One soap earlier this year.

Reflecting on her final months at Albert Square, Tointon told the Sunday Mirror: "Last year was non-existent for me on screen, so I'm ready to move on. Since having baby Summer two years ago, my character didn't really do anything - I just ordered a sandwich every now and again."

She added: "I never expected to be there for as long as four years. I thought two, max, but they kept me on. It was so emotional filming my final scenes. Normally there are a hundred more scenes to do - you're never really done - so I made myself block out the fact this was my last one."

Tointon also confirmed that there is no truth in rumours linking her to the next series of I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, which last year starred her boyfriend Joe Swash.

On reports that she will appear on Strictly Come Dancing, she commented: "I think every year they have a lot of people wanting to do it - they have people calling them. I'd like to think they'd have me. But who knows?"

Tointon has previously admitted that she felt "heartbroken" after being dropped by her soap bosses.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/a1...-existent.html

[sindydoll]

i think we all need a change now and again im currantly coming out of my job that ive been doing for 2 & half years and going into a new one because i want a change dont get me wrong i love my job and sad to leave but i just need something new in my life

[Perdita]

FORMER EastEnders star Deepak Verma has slated the show - claiming its current Asian family is unrealistic.
Deepak, who played the BBC1 soap's market trader Sanjay Kapoor in the 1990s, said the Masoods were "two-dimensional and ill-conceived" with "stupid clothes and accents".

Deepak, 40, praised rival ITV1's Coronation Street and Jimmi Harkishin's "brilliant" portrayal of Asian Dev Alahan. He said: "He's a dodgy womanising sleazebag. He's Indian but that's got nothing to do with it. He's just a brilliant actor."

A Beeb spokeswoman said: "It's a shame Deepak feels that way.

"But the Masood family is hugely popular with EastEnders viewers."

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ts-Asians.html

[Perdita]

Veteran actor Harry Towb has died at the age of 83, it has been announced.

Most recently, he was seen in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders, playing Janine Butcher's fiancé David for a two-episode stint in December last year.

RIP Harry

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/...s-aged-83.html

[Perdita]

EastEnders star Steve McFadden has revealed that he feels happier than ever following the birth of his fourth child.

The actor, who plays Phil Mitchell in the BBC One soap, and girlfriend Rachel Sidwell welcomed their newborn daughter at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London yesterday.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/...baby-girl.html

Congratulations to them