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Paul.TVPaul.TV Posts: 77
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So what are the odds of your child dying before you? Pretty slim right… not if you live on Albert Square. I was thinking the other day and almost every major long term character in EE has had a child/grandchild die!


Carol lost son Billie (alcohol poisioning)

Ian’s just lost daughter Lucy (murder)

Max lost son Bradley (fell off the Vic)

Ronnie lost daughter Danielle (run over) and son James (cot death)

Dot lost grandson Ashley (motorbike crash) and son Nick (apparently…)

Patrick lost son Paul (murder)

Big Mo lost daughter Viv (cancer)

David lost daughter Karen (car crash)

Bianca’s lost her baby (had spina bifida so she had a termination)



Then if they didn’t die, almost everyone else has ‘lost’ a son or daugter…

Phil lost son Ben (to prison) and daughter Louise (with her mum)

Sonia lost daughter Rebecca (adopted previously before being reunited)

Cora lost daughter Ava (before being reunited)

Lola lost Lexie (put into care)

Jack’s lost Bella (with her mum because of his affair)

And almost all of the Carters have been estranged from family members

Not to mention all the abortions and miscarriages…



Basically if you’re in Eastenders you’re going to go through the worst pain possible that is loosing a child.

Who’s next?

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  • J-BJ-B Posts: 18,612
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    Shirley dropped a nearly full bottle of vodka. I know it's not the same but she felt it just as much.
  • sunny daysunny day Posts: 849
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    What a very cheerful thread :(:(
  • iMatt_101iMatt_101 Posts: 7,081
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    J-B wrote: »
    Shirley dropped a nearly full bottle of vodka. I know it's not the same but she felt it just as much.
    :D:D:D
  • attitude99attitude99 Posts: 14,848
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    Peggy lost the Queen Vic, she loved it more than Phil.
  • LMLM Posts: 63,477
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    J-B wrote: »
    Shirley dropped a nearly full bottle of vodka. I know it's not the same but she felt it just as much.

    That has to be one of the most funniest things i have ever read on here EVER. Brilliant. :)
  • Seamus2008Seamus2008 Posts: 3,363
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    Shirley's son Jimbo also died (of cystic fibrosis). :(
  • BenllechBenllech Posts: 2,297
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    Cora and Ava haha, a sign of how far EE has come since those dour events.
  • bass55bass55 Posts: 18,370
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    Ethel lost her Willy
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,163
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    attitude99 wrote: »
    Peggy lost the Queen Vic, she loved it more than Phil.

    Very true
    Although Phil also nearly died in there
  • Paul.TVPaul.TV Posts: 77
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    J-B wrote: »
    Shirley dropped a nearly full bottle of vodka. I know it's not the same but she felt it just as much.

    Hahaha! Fantasitc!


    I didn't realise Shirley had lost a kid Jimbo too! Add another to the list!!!
  • Collins1965Collins1965 Posts: 13,912
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    And Jack Branning lost his son James. In fact the Brannings are very unlucky indeed with 3 siblings (Carol, Max and Jack) al losing a child.

    Now half brothers David and Ian follow suit.

    Unlucky or what.
  • Kim_xKim_x Posts: 3,635
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    Dot also lost a daughter in a way (Charlie pressured her into having an abortion) and her granddaughter (Dotty left to go and live with her mum, who Dot didn't even know was still alive.)

    Kat lost Zoe and Tommy in a sense (Wasn't allowed to be Zoe's mum, then Zoe ran away twice, before moving to another country a few years later; Tommy is pretty self explanatory..)Then there's the two miscarriages.

    Ronnie also miscarried.

    Jane lost the chance of having a baby thanks to Stephen, then the baby that Lucy was going to let her raise as she decided to have an abortion.

    Carol aborted Dan's baby after his affair with Bianca.

    Sonia once thought she was pregnant when she wasn't. I think she had a positive test but she was found not to be pregnant when she went to the doctor.
  • dazza89dazza89 Posts: 13,909
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    J-B wrote: »
    Shirley dropped a nearly full bottle of vodka. I know it's not the same but she felt it just as much.

    LMFAO
    :D:D:D:D
  • attitude99attitude99 Posts: 14,848
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    Lynne Slater also miscarried after the infamous 2004 Fairground Disaster then had a hysterectomy to save her own life.
  • dd68dd68 Posts: 17,837
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    It's a soap, these death rates are pretty usual these days
  • attitude99attitude99 Posts: 14,848
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    dd68 wrote: »
    It's a soap, these death rates are pretty usual these days

    Yes & I thought the life expectancy was increasing...not in soap land.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 2,008
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    I was just thinking today of what current characters would know what Ian is going through right now and I came up with Max, Carol, Patrick, Ronnie and Dot

    All very different situations, of course
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 187
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    I thought the losing of children was the underlining theme in Eastenders at the moment. Almost a device to connect characters
  • attitude99attitude99 Posts: 14,848
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    Abortion is so common these days so it must be common in the Soaps too, after all they have to be a true representation of life, or they were at one time.
  • milliejomilliejo Posts: 2,230
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    Pauline lost Mark

    Kathy's daughter Donna died, rejected and of an overdose.

    Terry Raymond lost Tiffany
  • MutantXMutantX Posts: 1,772
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    Denny lost his dad
    Roxy and Ronnie lost Archie
    David, Ricky and Janine lost Pat
    Martin lost Pauline
    Ben and Ian lost Kathy
    George lost heather
    Peter, Lucy, Steven and Cindy lost Cindy
    Bobby lost Laura
    Ricky, Janine and Diane lost Frank
    Alice and joey lost Derek
    Scarlett and Tommy, Michael
    Ruby Allen lost Johnny
    Sharon, vicky, Dennis lost Den Watts
    Sharon loses angie

    The morale of this story is that children can lose parents too.
  • LiamBerryTea ~LiamBerryTea ~ Posts: 2,644
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    MutantX wrote: »
    Denny lost his dad
    Roxy and Ronnie lost Archie
    David, Ricky and Janine lost Pat
    Martin lost Pauline
    Ben and Ian lost Kathy
    George lost heather
    Peter, Lucy, Steven and Cindy lost Cindy
    Bobby lost Laura
    Ricky, Janine and Diane lost Frank
    Alice and joey lost Derek
    Scarlett and Tommy, Michael
    Ruby Allen lost Johnny
    Sharon, vicky, Dennis lost Den Watts
    Sharon loses angie

    The morale of this story is that children can lose parents too.

    The morale is you loose everything you hold dear when you live In Walford
  • ArthurJBearArthurJBear Posts: 6,909
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    Sue and Ali's baby Hassan died shortly after the EE started
  • EurostarEurostar Posts: 78,519
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    attitude99 wrote: »
    Yes & I thought the life expectancy was increasing...not in soap land.

    Fewer than one in every one hundred people die every year and the overwhelming number would be elderly people dying of old age or illness : you'd never guess this from any of the soaps.
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