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It would explain why they’ve had so many “George and Amber are having sex” pointer scenes 🤮
But … how?!?!?!

Yes, I only recall Chelsea being rather bewildered by the bullying accusation, but ready to accept it must have happened. To someone. Who may or may not have been Amber?

Dunno …

I think Brad asserted that Chelsea had been abrasive at school and people were afraid of her and so left him alone, and she apologised to Amber (who gracelessly accepted in the end) for bullying of which she had no personal recollection, in order to keep the peace.

That's exactly how I remember it. I had the impression that Amber was a sensitive, shy only child from a sheltered background who might have struggled with the rough and tumble of secondary school after perhaps being in a small, nurturing primary school, and interpreted the way Chelsea and her friends behaved as bullying whereas for the older girls it was just normal boisterous high spirits. Very different from the calculated efforts to demean and hurt that the real bully rejoices in.

Well that scotches the above theory… 😂

@JanFebAndOnwards , does it?

Er ... Clearly yes. Amber is now without doubt female.

But we only have her word for it.

Can't they just add the East Enders theme tune at the beginning, please?

So you actually think that she's faking being female and is now faking a pregnancy?..... Oh come on.

What on earth would be the point of her faking a pregnancy? She doesn't really want to stay with George and in fact is in lurve with Brad.

That is so far fetched! I never imagined she wasn't female. I believe they are replaying the Will/Ed/Emma triangle and that was the plan all along. I hope it doesn't play out the same way with another 'George' creating havoc in 20 years time.

I think it may have been me who suggested that Amber wasn't female when she was at school, which would explain why nobody actually remembered her until they were forced to. Spoiler alert: a proportion of what I suggest on these threads may be less than 100% serious. Some people find it very hard to take The Archers seriously and should probably be sent to sit on the naughty step.

Spoiler alert: a proportion of what I suggest on these threads may be less than 100% serious. Me too.

I'm hoping the baby isn't George's. A consensual bit on the side with pretty well any other adult male in Ambridge (dishonourable exceptions to racist Lawrence or another Grundy) would be preferable.

Brian? David? Kenton? Clive? Neil? Justin? Jazzer? 'Arrison? Robert Snell? ...

Ed? Oh, the hilarity!

Someone she hooked up with in Ireland?

Or…Martin Gibson?

Martyn Gibson was my first thought. (Don't look up the actor, he doesn't look like my image of Martyn Gibson)
Like Lynda not being a Linda, and Kathy not being a Cathy, Martyn isn't a Martin.

I once made a list of people in TA whose names are often spelt otherwise than they are in the cast lists.

Kathy not being a Cathy used to be easy to remember because Kathy and Kenton were living together and had the same initial. The others, not necessarily so easy. I was particularly fond of "Marianda" for Miranda, and that wasn't a one-off typo, it turned up in several posts when she first appeared as Justin's horrible wife. There was also Justine, her husband....

Justine and Marianda
Poor Ruairi seems to have several different spellings on each thread, but rarely Rory.

Tracy and Lilian both have the shortest version of their name.

I have just discovered that my list is at https://ambridgereporter.org.uk/Spellings_of_Proper_Names.html

It is not up to date.

I hate the part of me that instantly wants to do something when someone tells you not to...

I did look him up.

Pleasantly surprised to see that the actor looks almost exactly like I imagine Martin!

How interesting. Some other characters (in my minds eye) don't match the actors at all...

In my case, Lilian is tall and slim, Tracy and Chelsea have brown hair.
Jolene has auburn hair and wears satin shirts that display an ample crinkly cleavage. Kate is not tall (about 5'4") and is slight, and Alice is tallish (about 5'7") - a bit like a thin Zara Tindall but with long straight blonde hair.

(ZT looks terrific and is slim but I imagine Alice as being a bit more like a young Anne)

Will Grundy looks absolutely perfect, though - poor chap!