EASTENDERS 61 - DEATH AND DIRE NEWS AS ALWAYS - TV PACE. NO SPOILERS

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Hopefully Lola didn’t die on her wedding night

she needs to meet her mum first

hoping lily will change her mind again and not have this baby. She’s too young to ruin her life

she’s 12 and should be treated as a child not given choices that will effect the rest of her life

zac has hiv which we know means Whitney won’t have an easy pregnancy /birth

Give the girl a break

will there be a 3 way with mum and daughter Chelsea and Ravi

will Sonja get together with reiss who looks sexy when shaved /hair and no glasses - we are a fickle lot !!!

anything else I’ve missed

I'm not sure what Emma does but my DH says she's a Solicitor .
Hopefully non-dogdy as the Square seems to have a fair number of the dodgy kind- Marcus, Ritchie , Gray, Eve .

I'm wondering if a large house will be going up for sale soon in the Square that someone with a sizeable income could buy to live near her daughter and family ?
Possibly Dot's house ? Or Gray's ?

Ah, yes, I remember Joe Wicks, @Blondes.

He made a big impact on teenage me.

An in-depth portrayal of schizophrenia was quite groundbreaking and rare on a mainstream UK tv show for the time (mid 90s?).

Hopefully helped start lift a bit of the stigma and raise awareness.

And one of Patrick's sons a few years ago, too? I was on an EE hiatus during that time so didn't watch it, but heard about it from friends.

Interesting to note the arc of EE mental health coverage in general. Mirroring more open public conversation, I guess.

I was only a kid when EE started, but do remember poor old Arthur having his breakdown. And Sue Osman's devastation/hospitalisation after her baby's cot death. Big, big talking points.

Thank God a more compassionate, educated approach to current characters' bipolar/ post-partum psychosis/ depression/ self-harm...

They don't always get it right, but the writers at least try to be responsible nowadays.

Sidenote: how long are we giving it until a jealous Reiss brains HippyJed with his tuba?!

How Chelsea Whitney and F and F keep that big house going is a mystery! I know they work ( sometimes) but it still must be a push . Maybe Gray will want to sell it ?
Which reminds me, have Mack and Mia ( Chantelle's two ) left home ?
(I think that's their right names ? )
If Emma is a solicitor , she is a scary one!

Another lawyer maybe to rival Eve and Richie.
Phil will have Emma on the payroll , although he might be upset she left Lola as a kid and not play ball !
She certainly has money whatever she does
Intrigued

Emma might be a divorce lawyer and got a good financial payoff from ex-husband/husbands.

(PK in real life has married 4 times , all men involved in the music industry . Now , according to t'internet engaged to a multi-millionaire Property Developer seen wandering round Mayfair looking at rings. I think ver' ver' wealthy people have the Jeweller come to them . )

Emma might catch Philth's eye , Kat can go back to Alfie .Sharon .......well Grant will come back sometime yeah ?

PK was married to one of the Gallagher's once.
I do like her , her dad was a bit of a gangster apparently ( so I've read ) she will play a good 'hard nut ' type I think.

PK has a "don't touch me" look about her maybe that's why she had the big roller in she did it herself so nobody would touch .

She was married to simple minds singer Jim Kerr. I think she has a son to him.

The others seem a bit in awe of her don't they ?
She was in Emmerdale for a while. I don't watch it , but she was good apparently.
The stalking is reminding me of Danielle and how she was with Ronnie Mitchell at first !
Just the other way round

It felt the nurse who tested him had daddy issues. She was looking like he hated him from the off, but even more so as he spoke about having a kid a way + his promiscuity. I don't think she's best suited for sexual health work imo.

What's weird is TV normally shows you abnormal levels of pastoral care the other way. Doctors, House etc.

How has Zack not told Whitney or at least included her in the anonymous messaging service? It's messed up.

We also got a good run down about viral load and the being unteansmisisble from your man Zack caught it from/with.

Definitely #teamgivewhitneyabreak
Honestly I only want good things for her.

Was groaning when the Sonia's lodged first arrived but him and Karen are making the show for me right now. I love Karen and the actress who plays her sooo much.

I adore Rocky too actually. The square needs more cheeky chap pies and chancers.

I like Rocky, he was a baddie , but him and Kath are good together now and he was forgiven for his previous misdeeds.
However, his still married .. so poor kath will be broken hearted I can imagine (in the future !)
I hope he sorts out a divorce soon , but he probably won't!
His a happy soul though
Bit like Kim and Howie are

Actually, the way the NHS is just now, maybe Zac's experience of what and how he was treated was realistic.
It's all online, so educate yourself is sometimes the mantra these days! Staff being a bit judging over something like this isn't unusual either I bet. Or maybe it's just dramatic license so we could have Sam's speech to educate us all.
She's a good friend to him , something that is often unusual in EE , men and women just being friends and not just bed hopping ( although I know they dtd once !)
I hope it stays this way

Karen was always a bit of a raver ( been hinted at ) and this new lodger is lovely looking. Not that I could put up with all that myself though !
He'd have to go I'm afraid

@over50andfab it is odd they'd have a groundbreaking storyline and it fall a bit flat in the way it has.

I hope it picks up a bit or the viewers will stop caring about Zac.

Zac is hard to feel sorry for though.
He should have told Whitney straight away.
I know it's hard though

I think Zack worked in the basis that Whitney was getting tested anyway. I’m pretty sure that a nurse telling someone about their diagnosis doesn’t work quite like that in there’s more to it. Not sure how I’d react if it happened to me. At least it’s picking up pace.

At first I thought Sonia’s lodger was the same guy who told Zack about the HIV, his old mate who he shared needles with, but it’s not is it? They just look similar

I've just been looking at PK's Wiki page. Her godfather was Reggie Kray!

she was married to both Jim Kerr and Liam Gallagher and has a son with each.

I bet that Reiss Colwell ( who I'm still a bit suspicious about , but I know nothing !) might be like Jane ' super brain ' Harris from Neighbours who took her glasses off and had a hair do and then suddenly looked like a model !
There's a nice pair of eyes there.

PK was born in Lambeth, so not a 'proper ' eastender in the Danny Dyer mode ! Close though lol
I think she'll be great in this.

I just can't get past her face that doesn't move when she talks. She looks like a statue!

No, its the man bun thing they all look the same 😃

You have seen my pic @the80sweregreat

Yes, he isn't my type, but he goes scrub up well in real life.
I just think that they might do this to him on EE , I wish it was Kim who takes him to the barbers !! Maybe he'll ask her advice on how to woo Sonia and the 'fox catcher ' will work her magic

PK is only a couple of years younger than me , there were some unpleasant "news" features about her putting on weight ('cos wimmin aren't allowed to , obvs ) so she's maybe had facial tweaks after weight loss ?

And yes she seems a bit wooden but possibly she doesn't want Emma Harding to be Sadie King #2 ?
It must be daunting to get thrown into a long established soap .

In the early days of Barbera Windsor she was getting into her role as Peggy , she changed the character along the way . The original Peggy was a formidable battleaxe , but only in for a few episodes so we forgot she existed before .
Barbara Windsor wanted Peggy to look like "a Walthamstow Market Princess Diana "

I reckon when Emma meets Phil , sparks will fly .
Phil wasn't a fan of Kat Slater but look how that turned out !

And Dan Donovan from Big Audio Dynamite (husband #1 ) then Jeremy Healey from Haysi Fantayzee (husband #4 )

C'mon, you all remember John Wayne is Big Leggy