After decades of forbidden lust, deaths and Dirty Den being Dirty Den, the festive special peaked when ‘Mick’ smashed up the Queen Vic in 2014Dirty Den demanding a divorce. Evil Archie Mitchell being bludgeoned by a statue of Queen Victoria. Zainab screaming as the B&B burned down. This is the stuff that classic Christmas Day EastEnders is made of. Over the years, the soap has delivered some of the season’s most vital moments. Forbidden lust. Untimely death. And in a particularly vintage year, Christmas Day would feature a Virgin Mary-style birth, such as that time when Bianca had a baby on the floor of the Queen Vic.Dirty Den kicked off the golden age of ding-dong drama when a now-unthinkable 30 million people in paper hats watched him demand a divorce from his poodle of a wife Angie, his eyes leaking hatred as he delivered his speech. The Mitchell bruvvas continued the tradition with weddings, knees-ups and divorce after the time Grant discovered Sharon had been polishing both his and Phil’s shiny heads. Continue reading…
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