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Cast of popular soap to expand with arrival of extended family

Arts & Entertainment

The EastEnders cast is set to expand as Mitch Baker’s estranged brother and nephews arrive in Albert Square. Mitch, played by Roger Griffiths, has been on the BBC One soap since 2018. The summer is expected to be a busy one for Mitch as his ...

07 Jun 2022 at 11:12

Popular soap to work with survivors charity on storyline involving male sexual assault

Arts & Entertainment

EastEnders has revealed it is working alongside charity SurvivorsUK on a storyline involving male sexual assault airing next month. Ben Mitchell, played by Max Bowden, will be at the centre of a new storyline after his character is raped ...

24 Apr 2022 at 13:04

Arts & Entertainment

June Brown, best known as EastEnders icon Dot Cotton, dies aged 95

EastEnders star June Brown, best known for her role as chain-smoking Dot Cotton, has died at the age of 95, the BBC has announced. The actress died at her home in Surrey on Sunday with her family by her side. An EastEnders spokeswoman ...

04 Apr 2022 at 15:36

Arts & Entertainment

'It feels like such a gift' - Former EastEnders star to join cast of Emmerdale

Former EastEnders star Louise Jameson has joined the cast of Emmerdale. Jameson, 70, will appear as Mary, Rhona Goskirk’s no-nonsense mum, in the ITV soap after playing Rosa Di Marco in EastEnders from 1998 to 2000. Her arrival in ...

29 Jan 2022 at 12:59

Arts & Entertainment

Actress set to reprise role as member of iconic soap opera family

Actress Kim Medcalf is set for an “explosive” return to EastEnders as she reprises her role as Sam Mitchell. The soap character, who is the daughter of Peggy and sister to Phil and Grant Mitchell, first came to Albert Square in ...

31 Jan 2022 at 11:41

National News

Last two dancing as the Strictly final airs tonight

The winner of Strictly Come Dancing will lift the glitterball trophy on Saturday after AJ Odudu had to pull out at the last minute over an ankle injury. Soap star Rose Ayling-Ellis and partner Giovanni Pernice and baker John ...

18 Dec 2021 at 15:43

National News

Danny Dyer to call it quits on EastEnders later this year

Danny Dyer will quit EastEnders later this year, the long time running soap has confirmed. The actor – who joined the cast in 2013, playing Queen Vic landlord Mick Carter – is not leaving imminently, with “plenty of ...

09 Jan 2022 at 12:35

National News

Actress Pauline McLynn calls on people to be aware of signs of stroke

Actress Pauline McLynn is calling on people to be aware of the signs of a stroke, after losing both her parents to the medical condition that results in more 6,000 hospital admissions in Ireland each year. The ...

07 Feb 2023 at 12:01

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EastEnders role: Tipperary-based Hollywood star Patrick Bergin to star in BBC soap

Hollywood actor Patrick Bergin, who lives in Emmel, Cloughjordan, is to star in the BBC soap EastEnders. The actor, who is originally from Dublin, is well known to movie audiences through his roles in ...

12 Sept 2017 at 11:21

Arts & Entertainment

Who are the guests on this week's final episode of The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In?

The final instalment of The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In will air on Thursday night, 7 November, with a host of fantastic guests joining the two Tipperary lads. The Eastenders star Shona McGarty ...

06 Nov 2024 at 15:46

Christmas

XMAS QUIZ: Can you answer 20 Christmas-themed questions set by a quizzing addict?

Some of us may know him as EastEnders’ amiable loser Barry Evans, others as a comedy version of himself in Extras and Life’s Too Short. But actor Shaun Williamson is also a master of quizzes. ...

20 Dec 2022 at 15:25

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